Example sentences of "as far as [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have , therefore , to consider why marriages effectively end , as well as why couples will go as far as to go to the courts to legally separate , and what social factors underlie the responses to changes in legislation . |
| 2 | ‘ As I finished selecting these 200-odd titles which reflect the continuing excellence of writing for children , a document was leaked which made it clear that the authorities which are controlling the education of the next generation had , at a stroke , obliterated the ‘ golden age ’ of children 's literature — at least as far as reading in schools is concerned . |
| 3 | I thought I was quite a reasonable driver , I got as far as running at the front in World Sports Car Championships erm finished on the podium several times in International Formula Three erm |
| 4 | Nothing happened with the turbine , but the V8 got as far as running in prototype form in the James Bond Esprit , which Rudd used as his personal car for a time . |
| 5 | An application for a property adjustment order is required to identify the land , specify whether the property concerned is registered or unregistered ( and , if the former , its title number ) , and give particulars ( as far as known to the applicant ) of the mortgage ( for example the mortgage account number and the full names of the mortgagor(s) ) ( Family Proceedings Rules 1991 ( SI No 1247 ) r2.59(2) ) . |
| 6 | As far as winning in style is concerned , Scotland can be sure their future is secure in the hands of David Sole . |
| 7 | As far as talking about tax is concerned , I realise the right hon. Gentleman 's sensitivity . |
| 8 | But I do not believe that one goes as far as going to the figure that the County Council is proposing . |
| 9 | And we did a lot of experimentation as far as going for certain guitar sounds and stuff like that . |
| 10 | Even if people in this state are able to get themselves going as far as applying for jobs and are offered interviews , they fail to get them because the image they put across is one of a lackadaisical , flattened dullard — and who would want to employ someone who 's in that state ? |
| 11 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |