Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sightings have been reported from as far as France and the Netherlands . |
| 2 | Technically it does not : the right is still upheld in so far as the jury are told that no inferences can be drawn from silence in the face of allegations . |
| 3 | This ‘ immediacy ’ of meaning in oral society he relates to the society 's functional needs , citing Malinowski 's claim that ‘ in the Trobriands the outer world was only named in so far as it yielded useful things ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 4 | Later , Patrick discovered that Tracey 's tree would not balance as one rod was not pushed in as far as the others . |
| 5 | BCG does not say ‘ invest and grow ’ here , but implies that investment should be made in so far as it is needed to maintain a favourable position ; BCG seems to be ambivalent here about the need to invest to increase market share . |
| 6 | The wheels are of the best construction , having wooden felloes six inches deep , with strong iron centre pieces , and the inconvenience arising from sudden concussion has been guarded against so far as possible by the finest description of buffer springs . |
| 7 | Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) . |
| 8 | The literary tradition is valued in so far as it offers a critical evaluation of this transformation and its consequences . |
| 9 | Knowledge , teaching and learning are only justified in so far as they contribute to that much more ambitious end . |
| 10 | Any deficiencies in this software may be forgiven in so far as it is distributed entirely free of charge ; no registration fee is requested by the author . |
| 11 | Secondly , agency discretion should be limited in so far as this is compatible with efficient operational decisions . |
| 12 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 13 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
| 14 | Admittedly , he says , some behaviour is regarded as externally caused in as far as the real explanation is not the intentional one . |
| 15 | The letter of the law was observed in so far as none of the names of the actual raped women were mentioned . |
| 16 | ( 1c ) Finally , and this was the central issue in Benjamin 's ‘ The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction ’ , aura is lost in so far as texts themselves are reproducible . |
| 17 | Why ca n't the woman be assessed as an individual , and benefit paid in so far as her resources are insufficient to meet her requirements ? |
| 18 | In earlier times many learned lawyers seem to have believed that an Act of Parliament could be disregarded in so far as it was contrary to the law of God or the law of nature or natural justice , but since the supremacy of Parliament was finally demonstrated by the Revolution of 1688 any such idea has become obsolete . |
| 19 | In earlier times many learned lawyers seem to have believed that an Act of Parliament could be disregarded in so far as it was contrary to the law of God or the law of nature or natural justice , but since the supremacy of Parliament was finally demonstrated by the Revolution of 1688 any such idea has become obsolete . |