Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] far [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue . |
| 2 | However Ingres reports increasing interest from other sectors and goes so far as to suggest that the Enhanced Security features may become an optional part of the standard Ingres database in the release after next . |
| 3 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 4 | Back at the head of Varanger Fiord , we turned off north on what we hoped was the road to Fuglafjell and got as far as the fishing village of Syltefiord . |
| 5 | I was going towards the North Stand and got as far as the All-Blacks ' 10-yard line . |
| 6 | It was delivered from Ford on a transporter to in Daybrook , run off the transporter , they did the P D I , she went to collect her brand new car and got as far as Kwik-Save in Sherwood . |
| 7 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 8 | To begin with she heard nothing to justify her fright , and got as far as the staircase between floors before the lift began to hum . |
| 9 | Instead , I invested in my future by buying a word processor and kept on those visits from counsellor and healer and maintained as far as possible — even over Christmas itself — my ‘ stay well ’ diet . |
| 10 | The oppressive regime I had anticipated was not apparent and the whole complex seemed clean , active and designed as far as possible to provide reasonable conditions and amenities for its inmates . |
| 11 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 12 | In all these activities the place of the elderly client in the family network should be maintained and enhanced as far as possible . |
| 13 | All in all , you will find that your chances of happiness together under the same roof will depend very largely upon your ability to respect and accept her individuality , to see that she gets her share of family affection , to make it possible for her to keep usefully occupied ( within her limitations ) in the home , and to engage as far as she can in all the outside interests she has always enjoyed . |
| 14 | I do n't need food ’ , and the sub-text , admitted only to myself and ignored as far as possible , read , ‘ I 'm starving . ’ |
| 15 | He hovered about the site restlessly , like one barefoot on thorns , all the while they were removing the debris of sagging , uprooted broom bushes , which Orrie phlegmatically loaded into a handcart and wheeled away along the riverside path to be unloaded and burned as far as possible from the sacred precincts . |
| 16 | Of granite , which he has used in dressings around the doors and windows , he wrote : ‘ Especial care is required to make the mouldings of a broad , bold and massive , rather than a small or delicately undercut character , and to avoid as far as possible anything like minuteness and pettiness in the finish . ’ |
| 17 | Y'know , we 've been dead and buried as far as a lot of people are concerned , but this album will put us back up there . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | and get as far as we can and break off about half past twelve for an hour |
| 20 | Lydia opened the door to let out the cigarette smoke and walked as far as the stream , wondering why the blazes Betty was behaving in so singular a fashion . |
| 21 | I locked the shed again and jogged as far as the bridge while I got my breath back . |
| 22 | I really think that 's what has made the business stay , and go as far as it has . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , as has often happened in developing countries as well , he completely underestimated the people 's desire for land , and went so far as to oppose the implementation of the Land Settlement Act . |
| 24 | Peel reckoned with the prospect of violent conflict between the Government and the trade unions ; and went so far as to enquire into the practicability of organizing the middle classes against them . |
| 25 | For various reasons the main one of which was a lack of understanding of our problems , our local administration were often unsympathetic and went so far as to accuse us of non co-operation at times , especially in the matter of rest days . |
| 26 | But with Barnet owing £1.3million and the players and staff unpaid for three weeks , Stein believes it is unlikely the crisis can be averted and went as far as to wish his players ‘ all the best for the future . ’ |
| 27 | Also train on the punch bag , aiming your kicks as high as you can and reaching as far as possible . |
| 28 | It is important to support parents and to co-operate as far as you possibly can . |
| 29 | Adjustment can now come about automatically via the exchange rate , although the success of this mechanism depends upon the elasticity of demand for imports and exports as far as the current account is concerned , and on the stability of capital flows for an overall balance of payments . |
| 30 | ‘ It leaves me high and dry as far as the debt 's concerned . |