Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] far [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose it is clear that convention does not dictate an answer either way in McLoughlin : convention requires that precedents be followed , but only so far as a new case is like the precedents in relevant facts , and no past case has decided whether damages must be awarded for emotional injury away from the accident 's scene . |
| 2 | In certain species , the long , fine roots trail below as far as the muddy or sandy bottom and anchor the plant , still giving it ample freedom for floating . |
| 3 | Windows was the environment of choice — the DOS version works identically as far as the mechanics are concerned , except that pretty Windows graphics are replaced by character based displays . |
| 4 | Er it means generally that I 'm coming home quite late , so as far as a daily paper 's concerned , I 'm really not very much interested . |
| 5 | It is also likely that the ads for the more expensive and unusual products will be of greater general interest than those for the cheap day-to-day items : it is quite tempting to study in detail an ad for an expensive car , or browse through the ‘ houses for sale ’ columns , even if you aspire only as far as a second-hand Escort and have no intention of moving house within the next 10 years . |
| 6 | Then he strode away — but only as far as the corner of the hearing room , temporarily out of range of the television cameras . |
| 7 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 8 | The French government acceded to her request that she be buried at Malmaison , but her son was permitted to accompany the funeral only as far as the frontier between France and Switzerland . |
| 9 | ‘ No , sir , only as far as the actual competition , which they organize . |
| 10 | Whilst most modern witch covens can be traced back only as far as the revival stimulated by Gerald Gardner and the repeal of the Witchcraft Acts in the 1950s , there still exist traditional covens which date back much further . |
| 11 | The direct influence of the LLP extended only as far as the metropolitan boundary at Bethnal Green ; the West Ham Labour Party was autonomous . |
| 12 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 13 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 14 | Perhaps the notice could be altered to indicate that the path leads only as far as the river . |
| 15 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 16 | Once or twice they walked together as far as the river . |
| 17 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 18 | Magnificent Karnak , with its corridors of stone rams , sky-embracing pillars and gigantic inscrutable statues , stretching apparently as far as the eye can see , is breathtaking . |
| 19 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 20 | Damon could copy anyone 's handwriting and had been told by their class teacher , in a burst of anger , that he would go far , perhaps as far as the Scrubs for forgery . |
| 21 | Sheena Easton has been shrewd enough to ride Prince 's coat-tails just so far and no further , without letting her identity be submerged . |
| 22 | Latvian tombs , hoards of treasure found in Estonia , jewellery , statuettes and household articles discovered in Poland , together with objects from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds illustrate how this people of warriors and merchants expanded eastward as far as the Caliphate of Baghdad , while excavations in ‘ Norman ’ territory ( at Downham in Norfolk and in the vicinity of Rouen ) provide proof of Norse expansionism in another direction . |
| 23 | The grassy countryside was flat on either side , stretching away as far as the eye could see . |
| 24 | Well they , they had gone into the production of er steel er turning er in such a way that er they looked for the best possible tools er in order , one , that they could produce the item more cheaply as far as the employing class is concerned , they want to produce it as cheap as they can and probably sell it the dearest . |
| 25 | The apparent extension of the effects of the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plates to much of central and eastern Asia , and possibly as far as the Baikal Rift ( Fig. 3.21 ) , in fact indicates that the consequences of plate interaction need not necessarily be confined to plate margins . |
| 26 | Concern was expressed with the results of this free-for-all policy , both as far as the number of solicitors from large firms was concerned and in respect of the quality of advocacy : |
| 27 | I would not have done it any differently as far as the involvement of GM and Lotus . ’ |
| 28 | I would not have done it any differently as far as the involvement of GM and Lotus . |
| 29 | And even beyond would be snowbound , perhaps right as far as the sea . |
| 30 | The French writer Hippolyte Taine , in the not on the whole very friendly account he published of a journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century , tells , all too vividly , an unpleasant story of a fourteenth-century mayor of Bayonne who tried to extend his jurisdiction up-river as far as the tide went , so as to stop Basque smugglers from defrauding him , and who tied a number of local Basque gentry to the arches of a bridge and watched the tide come up and slowly drown them . |