Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as far [conj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Almost the most enjoyable thing of all is Lewis 's ability to find traces of the ‘ old world ’ — beliefs which go back to Isadore of Seville or Macrobius or even as far as Plato — surviving in the pages of Fielding , Johnson or Wordsworth .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It had come half way up the bunk , and nearly as far as Willis 's blankets .
6 Play the harlot ( 1 ) : they did so literally and also as far as religion was concerned .
7 I want at the end erm , Chairman to give you my views of what is meant by er , an integrated and balanced community because I think that 's that 's quite important , but before I do that , I 'd like to mop up one or two er points right at the end in response to some of the contributions that have been made , and I 'll deal with them , Wincup , Curtis , Brook , er and Thomas , if that 's acceptable er to you , and really as far as Mr Wincup is concerned , he 's quite properly raised the issue of procedural issues about how the Greater York authorities is going to address moving towards er an agreed location , and quite clearly I 've got to reaffirm again that the County Council will want to look at both the greenbelt local plan report and your panel report before er it moves erm er forward or looks at any conclusions it may be moving to in the light of those er in the light of those reports , and quite clearly , as we all know , there are a number of options .
8 I began to use the mornings of those days when I was on evening watch for these little excursions , and covered quite a bit of territory — Leighton Buzzard , High Wycombe , Buckingham , Dunstable , Newport Pagnell , Woburn , Banbury , Northampton , Aylesbury , Bedford , and even as far as Whipsnade and the Chiltern Hills .
9 She nagged him northwards to the Peace River district , to establish garages there , and even as far as Fort McMurray , with instructions to buy land for future service stations .
10 ‘ We have enthusiasts travelling from America , France and even as far as Australia , ’ said local association member Robert Lamrock from Belfast .
11 And yet as far as many practitioners were concerned it was revolutionary .
12 It 's all right and tight as far as I 'm concerned .
13 But basically as far as you are concerned you can get that sort of dividend yield , which is brilliant because i y as a tax-payer if you can te ten percent erm the , the fund is written as a unit trust and you 'd be paying seven you 'd be paid seven and a half percent on that one , so which one would you choose ?
14 Then he strode away — but only as far as the corner of the hearing room , temporarily out of range of the television cameras .
15 Bull said it still continues to be part of ACE Consortium , but only as far as desktop Intel-based systems are concerned : it refused to be drawn over the question of whether its relationship with IBM would result in it favouring OS/2 over Windows 3 , saying only that ‘ Windows is what our customers are buying today ’ .
16 Be careful to spread the legs , not as far as they can go , but only as far as is comfortable .
17 As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married .
18 He flies to some distant part of the forest — usually 150 m ( nearly 200 yards ) , but sometimes as far as 3.5 km ( over 2 miles ) , away .
19 In contrast , they were responding correctly ( but insignificantly as far as the sales strategy was concerned ) to the two parameters σ and k on the first repetition , and were responding incorrectly ( but significantly ! ) to these parameters on the second repetition .
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