Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] as far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Department of the Environment ( DoE , the central government department with overall responsibility for local government in England ) was , he says , trapped into the position of being both the advocate of local services within the centre and the guardian of the purse-strings as far as local government was concerned ( in that respect the Secretary of State acted as a sort of ‘ mini chancellor ’ ) ( Rhodes , 1986 , p. 238 ) . |
| 2 | The final four columns of Table 11.1 give details of the financial position of the companies as far as this could be discerned from published data . |
| 3 | Comparable buildings are also visible from the air north of the defences as far as the River Nene , apart from the low-lying Billing Brook area . |
| 4 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 5 | What was the main problem with the Roses as far as Andy was concerned ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll start with the facts as far as we know them at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 8 | They went round the coasts as far as the Carthaginians allowed them to go . |
| 9 | Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see . |