Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Pupils with special educational needs , like all other pupils , should have the opportunity to experience as far as possible the full range of the English curriculum .
2 The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind .
3 HOW 'S ABOUT FAT , THEN : The Duchess gets as far as raising a leg but then decides exercise is just too much effort and takes the rest of the sunbathing session lying down
4 The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die .
5 In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory .
6 The fence stretched as far as she could see and , above it , waved the brown tops of trees .
7 She could n't help thinking that Cara , who had been known to take the car to go as far as the corner shop to pick up a bottle of milk , would have folded long before this .
8 After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square .
9 At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas .
10 The following year the Scots penetrated as far as Swaledale and Richmondshire , burning villages and seizing or killing resisters : on this occasion Holme Cultram abbey lost livestock valued at £500 .
11 The mood spread as far as non-separatist feminist campaigns around disciplines like psychology .
12 Without using any money , some of the escapees got as far as North Wales , Yorkshire , and Scotland .
13 And the vehicle got as far as Hucknall Marketplace , er and that was it .
14 The proposal got as far as a White Paper which suggested a two-tier system — life peers with voting rights and other members who could take part in debate but not vote .
15 In 1383 , the proposal got as far as a draft .
16 In fact , the Committee goes so far as to assert that business and industry have no distinctive educational needs , and is thereby able to collapse point 2 in its terms of reference ( " the needs of business , the professions and the public services " ) into point 1 ( " the requirements of a liberal education " ) .
17 Fish never sleep , you see , so if this one does , then that 's half the battle won as far as friend Polgar is concerned . ’
18 Such conscientious couples even tried to share the child bearing as far as possible .
19 The propagandists go so far as to assume , even to assert , that it would not result in any splitting of the party vote : in other words that votes transferred from Dandy or Deadman or Doughty would go to another of these three running-mates and not elsewhere .
20 Where the husband goes so far as to cause injury , there are available a number of offences against the person with which he may be charged , but the gravamen of the husband 's conduct is the injury he has caused not the sexual intercourse he has forced . ’
21 Fittings should be removed and the body dismantled as far as possible including disconnecting from gas or electrical supply if possible .
22 A second line of argument is to see the picture painted so far as too static .
23 However the question in the present case was whether the duty of confidence which the defendant no doubt owed to the plaintiff extended so far as to bar disclosure of the report to the hospital or the Home Office .
24 They were generally larger than the buildings described so far and were often more elaborate , with hypocausts , painted wall plaster or mosaic flooring .
25 In the fierce noon-day sun the water stretched as far as the eye could see , in every shade of blue from palest turquoise to the deepest indigo of the horizon .
26 In general terms , however , the present state of the law is that an individual who has reached the age of 18 is free to do with his life what he wishes , but it is the duty of the court to ensure so far as it can that children survive to attain that age .
27 Seen from a hill , the dunes stretched as far as the deep blue of the horizon , above which were a few streaks of cirrus cloud .
28 It is the stuff of or the basis of all the relations specified so far or still to be specified between cause and effect , causal circumstance and effect , and nomic correlates .
29 It was official policy at the outset to broadcast as far as possible in African languages .
30 But in the days before television and radio , almost before phonograph records , how did the music spread so far and so wide ?
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