Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] far as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should proceed beyond the immediate results of experience only so far as legitimate inductions will take us . |
| 2 | But only so far as this : that the Pioneers did not in fact succeed in creating the Manufacturing Society as a Co-operative . |
| 3 | From that experience , he derived an ideal of stage unity stemming from a close collaboration ‘ regardless as far as possible of individual prestige and personality ’ , which was reinforced by working in the Group Theatre of the thirties with Auden , Isherwood , Spender , Britten and others . |
| 4 | Now , seeing as my own computer literacy extends only as far as Super Mario Bros , I 'm left feeling a little bewildered by it all . |
| 5 | There is one poem in which the I dominates to a remarkable extent and which , since it has been read literally , might seem an exception to my argument , namely 62 : If one reads only as far as this point , or reads the rest of the poem inattentively , one might indeed take this as an attack by the poet on his own narcissism . |
| 6 | Having seen and made many changes in their time , the Kings retired five years ago — though only as far as next door , and the sign above the shop still says King , maintaining the links back to 1870 and before . |
| 7 | Large-scale industrialization and urbanization were bad enough as far as most Basque Nationalists were concerned ; even worse was the descent upon their homeland of tens of thousands of ‘ Spanish ’ immigrant workers , many of whom were affiliated to the Socialist UGT . |
| 8 | For the individualist , the central task is to understand individuals as agents , and thus as far as possible to understand the social world as the outcome of options and choices taken and made by particular actors . |
| 9 | They would have to avoid the Warden 's forces , in these circumstances , so would require to plan their approaches carefully , keeping away as far as possible from Teviotdale and Tweeddale . |
| 10 | How much further west the Minoan merchantmen sailed remains a matter for speculation : possibly as far as southern Britain . |
| 11 | which we can be sure , or think we can be sure , of biological connection is always very narrow ; but sociological kinship , which depends only on our willingness to slot individuals into particular verbal categories , can be extended as far as we like , or rather as far as local convention requires , and that may be thousands of miles and include many thousands of individuals . |
| 12 | For the second verse at ‘ so high ’ the hands are clasped together and raised above the head , on ‘ so low ’ they are lowered to knee level and on ‘ so wide ’ they are stretched out sideways as far as possible . |
| 13 | There is nothing constitutionally mandatory about any such particular structure but , both in existing legislation and particularly so far as internal civil service organisation is concerned , such a structure is assumed and there are heavy administrative costs involved in change . |
| 14 | Even if there is nothing legally obligatory about a particular scheme of vertical or horizontal devolution , there is , nevertheless , a measure of political compulsion , particularly so far as horizontal devolution is concerned . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're taking my friend here as far as Horsey . |
| 16 | The skiing does n't stretch even as far as advanced intermediate , but reports of dedicated tuition in perfect English and high sunshine levels in a place on the same latitude as Rome make this an excellent first-timer 's choice . |
| 17 | The traditional approach , essential before the days of high-powered computers , was to proceed algebraically as far as possible and resort to numerical integration only when there was no alternative ; the Blasius profile integration again provides an example . |
| 18 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 19 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 20 | But he is not directly accessible in any ordinary sense , nor can the necessity of the concept of God for the interpreting of our experience be demonstrated , at least so far as pure reflection on the nature of our knowledge can take us . |
| 21 | The distinction works only in part , at least so far as social work is concerned , but it allows the author to develop and use as a thread through the discussion , the historically gendered nature of the division between the so-called caring professions and professions such as medicine , law , and architecture . |
| 22 | It was a sign that Ceauşescu intended to go much further than Dej in rehabilitating the Romanian past and distancing the Communist regime from the original Soviet model , at least so far as public presentation went . |
| 23 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 24 | The latter extended at least as far as 1022 , and maybe to 1028 , when all record Cnut 's journey to Norway in similar words , or even to 1030 or 1034 , which give the deaths of King Olaf of Norway and Bishop Æthelric of Dorchester . |
| 25 | From this point , the position has become confused , at least as far as external observers are concerned . |
| 26 | Although it appears that you did not make a large sum of money out of your dealing — at least as far as external appearances are concerned — I have to take a serious view of it . ’ |
| 27 | This confidence seems unjustified , at least as far as capital asset charging is concerned . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it might be argued that the problem of particular identity , at least as far as perceptual things are concerned , presents no insoluble problems . |
| 29 | Our results suggest that it is wrong to assume that patients will become unduly anxious if they are warned about most of the potential risks of surgical treatment , at least as far as inguinal herniorrhaphy and general anaesthesia are concerned . |
| 30 | 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 . |