Example sentences of "[v-ing] as far as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next to him on his left , keeping as far as possible from the coals as though to emphasize his lack of pretensions to warmth , was Percy Makepeace ( ‘ We 're distantly welated to the Thackeways ' ) , the pale shred of a mathematics teacher . |
| 2 | The present aim of shaft design is to specify a particular bending flexibility in the shaft while reducing twisting as far as possible . |
| 3 | ‘ I was n't thinking of going as far as that . |
| 4 | Dalgliesh had recognised , with foreboding , a familiar phenomenon : the desire of a witness , aware of the paucity of her evidence , to make the most of it lest the police be disappointed , while remaining as far as possible within the confines of truth . |
| 5 | Since the Carlists were unlikely to accept any kind of power-sharing arrangement , it was less a question of making a political pact with them than of imposing the desired situation on them and limiting as far as possible their capacity to reject it . |
| 6 | This was coupled to a policy of discouraging as far as possible even British imports into the colonies on the grounds that this would divert Britain 's exports from dollar to soft currency areas like the colonies , ’ and hence the accumulation of colonial sterling balances . |
| 7 | That but anyway that does n't ha hang on that that does n't approve what you 're saying , what I 'm saying as far as English is concerned that 's assessed underneath the attainment target writing |
| 8 | Also train on the punch bag , aiming your kicks as high as you can and reaching as far as possible . |
| 9 | He tried to broaden the base of support for the government , relying as far as possible on legal processes in restraining the press and arresting suspects , sacking the hated Minister of Education , Tolstoy , and planning steps to alleviate the burden of redemption payments on the hardest-pressed peasants . |
| 10 | Such conscientious couples even tried to share the child bearing as far as possible . |
| 11 | Empathizing as far as possible with his hosts , the anthropological research worker seeks to seize the essence of life around him and to incarnate its animating spirit . |
| 12 | Lorraine Shaw says … she wwent to a course at Cheltenham and the coach told her that she could be throwing as far as 60 metres in two years … now her ambition is to break the commonwealth record and eventually the world record |
| 13 | Safe : Distribution systems need to be safe in their own right and to facilitate or even promote safe working as far as possible . |
| 14 | In each case , the solution involves balancing the competing claims of each subprocess , thereby ensuring as far as possible that each subprocess is allowed to contribute to the overall interpretation task as fully as it is able to , while not being forced to make decisions for which it , on its own , has insufficient evidence . |
| 15 | to secure the relevance , reliability and integrity of information , so ensuring as far as possible the completeness and accuracy of records ; |
| 16 | Although the proprietors and staff of EVERYDAY ELECTRONICS take reasonable precautions to protect the interests of readers by ensuring as far as practicable that advertisements are bona fide , the magazine and its Publishers can not give any undertakings in respect of statements or claims made by advertisers , whether these advertisements are printed as part of the magazine , or are in the form of inserts . |
| 17 | Although the proprietors and staff of EVERYDAY ELECTRONICS take reasonable precautions to protect the interests of readers by ensuring as far as practicable that advertisements are bona fide , the magazine and its Publishers can not give any undertakings in respect of statements or claims made by advertisers , whether these advertisements are printed as part of the magazine , or are in the form of inserts . |
| 18 | Having stressed the importance of reducing as far as possible the number of permissible reasons for refusal , the authors refer to the cited ground , which they admit has no precedent in international agreements on judicial assistance . |