Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] far [conj] possible to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tied cottages , indeed , performed much the same function as the closed village in Victorian times , by enabling farmers to ensure that their expenditure on housing was limited as far as possible to guaranteeing their own labour requirements . |
| 2 | When that failed , the country resorted as far as possible to the conditions prevailing prior to its creation . |
| 3 | Any charges for luncheons , afternoon teas and dinners should be posted as far as possible to the tabular ledger and the guests ' bills . |
| 4 | He adds that any killing of animals should be painless , and their use in experiments restricted as far as possible to ‘ the less highly organised ’ creatures . |
| 5 | In this time you will be reduced as far as possible to walking cannon fodder and rushed away to some hell hole . |
| 6 | The Protestant reformers wanted to return as far as possible to the spirit of primitive Christianity and looked askance at the mystical tradition which seemed to have no warrant in Scripture . |