Example sentences of "least as far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But at least as far as the church is concerned , a conservative believes that what place a woman should hold was made known in the past and stands for all time . |
| 32 | My principal concern here , however , is to observe that the phenomenon of the fired word-pair is a contra-indication of the parallelism of greater precision — at least as far as those words are concerned . |
| 33 | Commenting on the composition of the Edinburgh Trades Council in mid-century , Ian McDougall writes : " local trade unionism was predominantly , though not exclusively , that of the skilled workers or labour aristocracy " In printing , a craft trade par excellence , organization went back as least as far as the eighteenth century in Edinburgh and several other towns . |
| 34 | Another reason for norm-referenced tests not providing a description of what a pupil knows and can do is the lack of clear specification of learning objectives , at least as far as the formulation of pupil performance on the test is concerned . |
| 35 | Of course , the sense of the danger to English studies from viewing literary texts as social , historical , or cultural " documents " reached back at least as far as Newbolt , and every subsequent suggestion that texts be used in such a way rekindled related anxieties . |
| 36 | From this point , the position has become confused , at least as far as external observers are concerned . |
| 37 | Allen and Burton now argue that , at least as far as their observational data are concerned , the projectile model best fits the facts . |
| 38 | Up to the day before I had hoped he would come with me at least as far as Perpignan , to see me on my way ; now there was no question of that , and indeed I could hardly wait to get away from him . |
| 39 | Chapter 12 will examine the challenge to the notion that the shareholders are uniquely qualified to be holders of residual rights , and the argument that a form of productive organisation in which the trading surplus accrues to the employees rather than the providers of capital is capable of operating no less efficiently , at least as far as the control of shirking is concerned , than the existing corporate form . |
| 40 | The shareholders , in contrast , at least as far as large and sophisticated investors are concerned , have no interest in increased diversification within the firm , since they will already have spread the risk associated with investment in a particular company or industry by holding a diversified portfolio . |
| 41 | Worst of all , at least as far as Ben is concerned , they damp down the creative faculty . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ As I finished selecting these 200-odd titles which reflect the continuing excellence of writing for children , a document was leaked which made it clear that the authorities which are controlling the education of the next generation had , at a stroke , obliterated the ‘ golden age ’ of children 's literature — at least as far as reading in schools is concerned . |
| 43 | This confidence seems unjustified , at least as far as capital asset charging is concerned . |
| 44 | Nevertheless , it might be argued that the problem of particular identity , at least as far as perceptual things are concerned , presents no insoluble problems . |
| 45 | Their replacement , at least as far as desktop publishing is concerned , is the page printer . |
| 46 | We were poor , but happy , at least as far as I was concerned . |
| 47 | This difference of perspective and lack of immediate concern with definitions of power and with empiricist rigour result in research methods which may appear to be more approximate in their conclusions than are the pluralists , at least as far as the distribution of power is concerned . |
| 48 | In any case , even the GCC itself recognises that such a defence structure will be inadequate — at least as far as the Gulf is concerned . |
| 49 | One of the bearded pig 's most endearing habits — at least as far as the human inhabitants of its native Borneo are concerned — is its tendency , in the occasional year , to form huge herds and plunge lemming-like through the rainforest in a desperate craving for a certain food item ( a kind of acorn , it is thought ) , whose supply fluctuates . |
| 50 | The more I thought about it , the more I looked forward to seeing this little known mountainous region , and I had every intention of penetrating at least as far as the Webi Shebeli river . |
| 51 | and Graham was hardly ever directly involved — he had , for example , only ever met one of Slater 's ( supposedly many ) lovers , at least as far as he knew . |
| 52 | If the conditions in which a lineage of animals lives remain constant ; say it is dry and hot and has been so without a break for 100 generations , evolution in that lineage is likely to come to a halt , at least as far as adaptations to temperature and humidity are concerned . |
| 53 | Official efforts to protect the cultivator against an oppressive lord went back at least as far as legislation by the Emperor Leopold I in 1680 ; and in many ways Maria Theresa showed a truer concern for her peasant subjects than her son was ever to do . |
| 54 | The cold feed to the cylinder and the vent pipe must be at least 22mm in diameter ; it is best if the hot water distribution pipes are 22mm as well — at least as far as the connection to the branch pipe for the bath . |
| 55 | The railway will come at least as far as Witney , you mark my words . |
| 56 | The problem results from the fact that the compulsory element in the Directive , so far as it exists , relates merely to the transfer of the contract of employment , but the contract of employment is a consensual relationship , at least as far as the employee is concerned , and so it is in principle available to be terminated unilaterally by the employee at any time or to be modified with the joint consent of employee and employer . |
| 57 | THE CIVIL WAR IS NOT OVER YET — at least as far as Britain 's beer duty collectors are concerned . |
| 58 | ‘ Well , none of us has got enough money to go into a high-class nursing home — at least as far as I know — so of course the wind was up all of us . |
| 59 | Water-powered fulling mills were not new ; indeed they go back at least as far as the thirteenth century . |
| 60 | Follow-up studies after 4 or more years report less than 50% of cases as recovered , and even ‘ cured ’ patients have not necessarily returned to a normal life , at least as far as their attitudes and behaviour are concerned . |