Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 2 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |
| 3 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 4 | These syllabuses have been developed as far as possible in common with the HND in Business Studies . |
| 5 | Extra-Statutory Concession D2 has also been amended as far as an individual is concerned so that it does not apply to a settlor of a resident or non-resident " settlor-interested " settlement . |
| 6 | International discussion is eased if they are distinguished as far as possible . |
| 7 | John Boys in his Agriculture of the County of Kent 1794 , tells us that hop poles are the chief article which make woods valuable in this part of the country , there being not only local demand but the poles are carried as far as Maidstone and beyond , the planters preferring the poles grown on the hills to those of quicker growth . |
| 8 | We have actually four questions and three subordinate questions which we were addressing and only one of them has been resolved so far and that is whether the Chairman of the Police Authority should be appointed by the Home Secretary or by the Authority and we are I think all have to agree that it should be by the latter . |
| 9 | Not only do the results have no bearing on rankings — and therefore do not matter — but they are forgotten so far as historical records are concerned almost before the players have walked off the court . |
| 10 | They are expected so far as practicable to make decisions on benefit entitlement within 14 days , but this time limit is frequently exceeded . |
| 11 | HWIM , Hearsay-II , and HARPY , examples of the Symbol Processing paradigm , can construct representations of the processing that has been done so far and operate on the individual hypotheses within that space . |
| 12 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 13 | ‘ It has hardly been seen so far and it really must go on public view . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the relatively few persons for whom special knowledge and training are reserved are freed so far as possible from the obligations of simple labour ’ ( Braverman , 1974 , pp. 82–3 ) . |
| 15 | Legal commentary and technical background are avoided as far as possible . |
| 16 | Some of that deal has been produced as far as the Tornado 's concerned , but again you 're quite right we 're waiting for the announcement of the er orders for the trains . |
| 17 | The company sees the service as a natural complement to NetWare 4.0 directory services — which have been based as far as possible on the X500 standard . |
| 18 | Combined with the federal structure of Germany this means that services are de-centralized as far as the political and administrative levels of national state ( Bundesstaat ) , federal state ( Land ) , district ( Kreis ) and local authority are concerned and additionally dispersed over an almost indescribable multiplicity of semi- and non-statutory organizations . |
| 19 | Blake and King begin to complain to each other that they are now wasting their time , since matters are settled so far as they are concerned . |
| 20 | How rich it is to hear the Scottish Labour leader impugn the integrity of the SNP when the integrity of Labour Party policies in the last year has been stretched so far as to be invisible . |
| 21 | However , he was much more explicit in his references to the nature of ‘ adolescence ’ , referring to it as the age of ‘ terrible peril ’ which had to be responded to ; the ‘ wayward forces ’ had to be ‘ rightly directed ’ , so that the ‘ new instincts and impulses , the new faculties and powers … shall be rightly exercised and trained , and that protection shall be given as far as possible against the temptations to which it is exposed ’ . |
| 22 | No sooner had the Colonel stumped out , his face flushed with a moral indignation that might or might not be sustained as far as Eaton Square and the Foreign Secretary 's residence , than the telephone rang . |
| 23 | Any charges for luncheons , afternoon teas and dinners should be posted as far as possible to the tabular ledger and the guests ' bills . |
| 24 | Both Soviet and British spheres of influence should be discouraged as far as possible , though it was accepted that such spheres would be among the inescapable facts of contemporary life . |
| 25 | He was completely satisfied with the explanation ; the lawsuit was to be discontinued as far as he himself was concerned , and he had written to Mr. Jennings asking him to withdraw as well . |
| 26 | Reluctance and misunderstanding must in their case be dissolved as far as possible by rational persuasion . |
| 27 | They can not reconcile the liberal precept that private autonomy should be respected as far as possible with the practice of legally enforcing all promises . |
| 28 | The South India Railway was to be built as far as Ramaswaram and then connected to Ceylon by embankments and bridges . |
| 29 | as colleagues who are involved will know is just about the only industry in the building materials sector that has n't made some kind of pay offer in this current round it 's very much bringing up the rear and we 're determined to use what industrial strength we have to change the employer 's stance otherwise we 're very concerned that the national negotiation missionary , this will be his death knell since we 'll have to resort to local pay bargaining , so the short answer is E C C er , will be balloted as far as the G M B is concerned union and , er , T & G are balloting in for industrial action to try to change the employers ' position . |
| 30 | The special educational needs should be met as far as possible within the normal educational system , and parental views should be taken into account in making provision for particular children . |