Example sentences of "far [conj] [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pilgrims and ascetics come from countries and cities far and near to seek the fulfilment of their desires . ’ |
| 2 | I wanted as far as possible to forearm the boy at the beginning of adolescence — not ramming a weapon into his hand willy-nilly , but showing him the size and shape of it and where it lies in such a way that he would take it up without realizing he was doing so and find himself using it when he needed to . |
| 3 | We try as far as possible to relate the work we do in the Technical Department to what goes on in industry and commerce . |
| 4 | In our first Report we tried as far as possible to avoid the word ‘ grammar ’ , and to explain how important it was for children to use linguistic terminology . |
| 5 | For the individualist , the central task is to understand individuals as agents , and thus as far as possible to understand the social world as the outcome of options and choices taken and made by particular actors . |
| 6 | Some directors were of course friends of administration , and used their powers of patronage as far as possible to supplement the efforts of government , but others , and notably the Elphinstone family , used their Indian patronage to sustain an opposition to Henry Dundas in Scotland . |