Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] as far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was subsequently excluded because it proved impossible to advance the colonoscope as far as the anastomosis in this patient . |
| 2 | ‘ That would be the best possible way to mark the day as far as I am concerned . |
| 3 | It was intended at one stage to extend the line as far as Portsmouth ! |
| 4 | These 10 practices were selected to match the controls as far as possible in terms of practice size , location , and main provider unit . |
| 5 | The stated aim of the Nuffield Science units , for instance , was to place the student as far as possible in the experimental mode , to give experience of " thinking like a scientist " . |
| 6 | When the carrier acknowledges that he holds for and on behalf of the buyer , e.g. by accepting and acting upon the buyer 's instructions not to convey the goods as far as their original destination or to convey them to a further destination , or |
| 7 | It was presumably from present-day Manchuria that the Tungus tribes gradually spread northwards to pervade the taiga as far as the Arctic zone , from the Sea of Okhotsk in the east to the Yenisei in the west . |
| 8 | At the end of 1981 BNFL was holding 14.5 tonnes of separated plutonium at Sellafield ( the government has promised to update the tally as far as March 1983 and will report to parliament in June ) . |
| 9 | USL , we know , is being careful not to rock the boat as far as Novell is concerned . |