Example sentences of "[adv] far [conj] [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually they ran so far that mines were sited as much as 55m/60yds behind the first German line ; the longest , at Kruisstraat , ran for some 658m/720yds . |
| 2 | By March this year the price of sorghum , wheat and maize in local markets had been depressed so far that farmers were complaining . |
| 3 | In England this power has for a very long time been delegated , so far as barristers are concerned , to the Inns of Court : and , for a much shorter time , so far as solicitors are concerned , to the Law Society . |
| 4 | ‘ Relevant time ’ is defined in similar terms to those applicable to companies so far as preferences are concerned , but a more extended period , of five years , is provided for transactions at an undervalue . |
| 5 | So far as terminals are concerned , the trend of the 1980s has been overwhelmingly towards the setting up of private distribution depots , so running down BR 's own facilities . |
| 6 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 7 | In England this power has for a very long time been delegated , so far as barristers are concerned , to the Inns of Court : and , for a much shorter time , so far as solicitors are concerned , to the Law Society . |
| 8 | So far as teachers are concerned , it might be necessary to tap a pupil on the shoulder to point out that s/he has dropped something on the floor , or to grab hold of a pupil to prevent an assault by that pupil on another . |
| 9 | In so far as tenants were able to secure the protection of copyhold , it removed the old disadvantages under which the servile tenant laboured . |
| 10 | But for all the changes , the prime emphasis in the retail market , so far as movies are concerned , still seems to be on the past , and predominantly on the mainstream Hollywood past . |
| 11 | A day or two later she was to receive another surprise so far as animals were concerned when the ginger kitten , more adventurous than his brothers , found his way into the cabin where the Dalmatian was suckling her pups and joined in the free feast . |
| 12 | But the real wage is what matters so far as jobs are concerned . |
| 13 | So far as ants are concerned , a single pangolin can eat up to 73 million of them , or termites , in 1 year , while ant eaters on Barro Colorado Island attack termite and Azteca ant nests ; of arboreal nests , 91% of the termite ones and 37% of Azteca nests are attacked each year . |
| 14 | Gordon H. Wright , very much the driving force of the movement so far as librarians were concerned , declared in a letter to the Library Association Record in September 1961 : |
| 15 | In so far as sensations are ‘ things excited in our minds ’ , they seem to have the character of particulars ; but in so far as the same sensation can be excited by any one of numerous objects , they ( the sensations ) seem to have the character of universals . |
| 16 | The problem is relatively straightforward in so far as trees are concerned . |
| 17 | So far as enterprises are concerned , their accounts are now in such a state of confusion that most of them no longer care about increases in their costs . |
| 18 | This maternal influence on the housewife is likely to decline with age , experience and maturity , but , as far as marketers are concerned , its influence is strongest at a point in the couple 's life when heavy expenditure may be incurred to establish the " household " . |
| 19 | As far as resources are concerned , an additional £523m has been announced by the government for expenditure on education in 1993–94 , an increase of 6% . |
| 20 | The New Zealand experience suggests that there is no shortage of couples prepared to take an ‘ open adoption with continuing contact ’ as far as infants are concerned ( Dominick , 1988 ) but evidence about ‘ special needs ’ children is still scant . |
| 21 | The line still represents a real challenge to footplate crews and one of the major attractions as far as enthusiasts are concerned is to hear the engines working under pressure on the slopes of the Rheidol Valley . |
| 22 | As far as personnel are concerned , every attempt will be made to refer to them according to skills , professions or areas of activity ( e.g. audio-visual technicians , media producers , design consultants ) , and normally the expression " educational technologist " will imply someone consciously identifying himself with the theory and methodology of the movement . |
| 23 | That seemed to be it , as far as motives were concerned , and , even to produce that list , he 'd had to scrape the barrel a bit . |
| 24 | Certainly as far as Americans are concerned , a lot of our hotels do n't come up to the standards of service that they are used to , and certainly they do n't think they 're value for money . |
| 25 | As far as adults are concerned it is important to note that the overwhelming emphasis within MSC is upon the 16–19 age group . |
| 26 | You are a right crafty bastard as far as women are concerned . ’ |
| 27 | On the practical level , changes in social policies which reduce women 's claims to maintenance on men but do not recognise that changes in the division of responsibilities for caring between men and women within the family and between the family and the wider community are also required , may in the end be counter-productive as far as women are concerned . |
| 28 | Moreover , as we have seen , the attempt to elicit more feminine aspects to a God ( or Christ ) otherwise conceived of as masculine is really beside the point as far as women are concerned . |
| 29 | As far as women were concerned , they found that there was no significant loss in their capacity to enjoy sexual intercourse . |
| 30 | She 'd always heard that his charm was legendary as far as women were concerned and this evening was certainly proving the truth of it . |