Example sentences of "[adv] far as [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Beazley submitted that the court 's decision in paragraphs 17 and 18 of the judgment , which is also reflected in the answer given to the question in the court 's ruling , is conclusive in his favour and determinative of the construction of article 5(3) ; and that in consequence articles 5(1) and 5(3) are to be construed as mutually exclusive , but as all-embracing so far as actions to establish any kind of liability of the defendants are concerned . |
| 2 | He walked out as far as Scheveningen to draw the fisherwomen there . |
| 3 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 4 | Sylvia Pedder sometimes has to go as far as Cumbria to see her relatives . |
| 5 | It gives a new and cruel twist to community care that people may have to be shipped perhaps as far as Birkenhead to find a community home . |
| 6 | PRODUCTION workers making toothpaste tubes in Kentucky have been travelling as far as Switzerland to keep abreast of new technology . |