Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] far as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards . |
2 | Emily swallowed hard , how could she lower her pride so far as to approach the girl she had been so scornful of ? |
3 | The Letterewe estate is run as a wilderness area and not as a commercial estate — this is an immense boon as far as preserving the beauty of the area is concerned . |
4 | Who else in that distinguished gathering of philosophers , psychologists , veterinary professors and ethologists would desert their dignity so far as to imitate an animal ? |
5 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
6 | In such cases the court should not apply the strict construction so far as to make the whole clause void or invalid or unenforceable . |
7 | Harold is a very good prime minister as far as taking the Cabinet goes . |
8 | These new committees have greatly strengthened the House so far as controlling the Executive is concerned . |