Example sentences of "its [noun pl] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All except Lord Diplock ( and in this he positively disagreed ) held that the GLC had to have regard , when making a grant , to the LTE 's obligation to run its operations so far as practicable , on a break-even basis ; so the GLC could make grants to the LTE only to make good unavoidable losses and not to further a particular social policy . |
| 2 | ‘ Portugal has completely fulfilled its obligations as far as the Deed of Declaration is concerned , ’ Mr De Silva said . |
| 3 | Network Appliance has got its machines as far as beta test on less than $1m , its initial $1.4m coming from the likes of Autodesk Inc chief executive Carol Bartz , ex-Digital Equipment Corp engineering vice-president Gordon Bell , former Sun Microsystems Inc president Owen Brown , former Microsoft Corp president Mike Hallman , former NetFrame chief executive David Hanna , Tandem Computers Inc co-founder Jim Katzman and MIPS Technologies Inc co-founder Skip Stritter among others . |
| 4 | At the same time the government did not push its reforms as far as some supporters wished ; it did not , for example , place the onus on union members to contract in rather than out of paying the political levy and has done little to break down national wage bargaining which pays little attention to different local labour market conditions . |
| 5 | One of our Committee members , the Rev. Ray Arnold , gave a short address and dedication , saying that enterprises like this one can so easily be a flash in the pan , but this one has surmounted its problems so far and achieved much . |
| 6 | However I would n't stretch its limits too far when temperatures fall below zero . |