Example sentences of "[adv] far [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as a family we have been living here for about 6/7 years . |
| 2 | So far as the B T U Tax is concerned , erm it 's really a political issue as to where the administration or the Congress in the end decide to place the tax , I mean in very simple terms the nearer you place it to the consumer , the more effective it is , but the less politically palatable it is which because consumers vote and oil companies do n't an and so er I think it will be political pressure to push it nearer to the well head which will be less good for the oil and gas producers . |
| 3 | So far as Trading Standards is concerned Chairman , the major income are weights and measures testing fees and they are set down by LACOTS , that 's Local Authority Courts on Trad on Trading Standards on er , an agreed scale , so we charge exactly the same as other authorities , for the same , for the same work , and we increase the fees every year , er , in line with erm , the recommendation . |
| 4 | So far as the main thrust of the honourable gentleman 's question is concerned er he will know that we believe it to be right and indeed in the interests of all the people in Northern Ireland that the British and Irish government should work closely together . |
| 5 | So far as a tenant in common is concerned however , he or she can not release an undivided half share , as a tenant in common is solely seised of his or her respective interest . |
| 6 | So far as a transfer to the wife coupled with a deferred charge in favour of the husband is concerned , this should proceed by way of a conveyance/transfer ( see Chapters 3 and 4 ) followed by a separate charge ( see Precedent 62 ) . |
| 7 | Or , as she said in an interview with Paul Oldfield : ‘ Throwing Muses go so far into people 's inner dreams , their family lives , that you find what appear as outside problems . ’ |
| 8 | In use , the pack is held on to the tool by a single metal strap , but the pack is recessed so far into the machine that this was perfectly stable . |
| 9 | He seemed to Trent to have withdrawn so far into himself that there was nothing left in his eyes . |
| 10 | The Austro-Marxists seemed to carry the argument so far into the nationalist camp that only the distinction between the cultural and the economic preserved internationalism . |
| 11 | He did not doubt that she was a prisoner , for these were the Warden 's men who they had thought would not dare come so far into the forest . |
| 12 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is because , though we can consciously trace the outline of the fear , it 68 CREATIVE WRITING reaches so far into the hidden recesses of our minds that we can not control the involuntary response . |
| 14 | It was then that the Dwarves came to him , fed him , warmed him in their mansions and asked his purpose , for no mortal man had ever travelled so far into the mountains . |
| 15 | And if either of these things happened to her then Odette and Liam would be separated and taken away to the work-house , Odette with her heart in pieces and her nerves in tatters , Liam retreating so far into that anxious silence of his that nothing would ever bring him out again . |
| 16 | They were pursued , some into the Till , where many drowned and some swam to safety — if it was indeed safety , so far into England — on the further side , some as far north as the Tweed and the border , thirteen miles away . |
| 17 | The tourism industry , Australia 's biggest foreign currency earner , is losing A$35m a day from the dispute , which would put its losses so far at almost A$1.5bn . |
| 18 | Television pictures of the huge and well-organised exodus from the embassy over the weekend had clearly instilled a touching — and , so far at least , ultimately justified — faith in the Federal Republic 's ability to look after all Germans , both East and West . |
| 19 | So far at least two cabinet members have confirmed acceptance of campaign contributions from the pachinko industry . |
| 20 | Most pundits , so far at least , rule out the prospect of a neutral unified Germany , if only because the Federal Republic is too deeply rooted in the West to distance itself from its allies . |
| 21 | This is another sign that , so far at least , the Opposition is rather getting the better of the ratings ' war . |
| 22 | For this reason , mistakes in the LBO boom have caused more fuss than mistakes in the merger boom of the 1960s , even though — so far at least — there have been fewer of them . |
| 23 | No reference was made by Press , or , so far at least , by any of our other statesmen of science , to the fact the new Reagan budget consigns 70 per cent of all federal R&D funds to national security . |
| 24 | 11.2.2 where the Signage of 11.2.1 can not be removed or destroyed painting or otherwise covering from sight all signage incurring any of the Trade Marks in so far at least as it relates to the Trade Marks , |
| 25 | This was from the basis of a new found security in a relationship with a male student who managed to last out more than the usual six weeks of all my other relationships so far at college . |
| 26 | Their complaint has been that , so far at least , the market mechanism has not proved effective for such large volumes — British Steel , for example , spends £100 million annually on electricity , and ICI accounts for 2%-3% of all consumption in the UK . |
| 27 | These have taken place so far at Ditchingham , Mirfield and Whitby . |
| 28 | ‘ He did n't get so far at that , ’ said Snodgrass , as they stood rather warily on the outskirts of the group . |
| 29 | A rescue attempt had hitherto been so far at the back of his mind that , if some advanced speculations on the nature and shape of the many-dimensioned multiplexity of the universe were correct , it was right at the front ; but a magic sword was a valuable item … |
| 30 | Pearson , England 's former centre-forward , is impressed with what he has seen so far at Valley Parade . |