Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 2 | She has as far as pictures are concerned Rich . |
| 3 | She says as far as pensioners are concerned some will get hypothermia . |
| 4 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 5 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 6 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 7 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 8 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 9 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 10 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 11 | If it gets as far as a decision , it will prove the leading case for some time on the thorny issue of what duty regulators owe the customers of the regulated . |
| 12 | It avoids so far as possible those terms of art which have acquired a special meaning understood only by lawyers in which many of the penal enactments which it supersedes were couched . |
| 13 | Suggest he advances as far as the stream and stops them there , but make it a tactful suggestion . |
| 14 | Certainly it does as far as the naked eye is concerned . |