Example sentences of "is [prep] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 2 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
| 3 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
| 4 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 5 | Thank you , Chair , it 's basically been allocated in terms of floor area , and what we 've said to Age Concern , is in so far as we continue to provide them with premises , then we will , if we adjust those charges , we will adjust their grant accordingly . |
| 6 | Thus ‘ gay is to straight not as copy is to original , but , rather , as copy is to copy ’ ( p. 31 ) . |