Example sentences of "[conj] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around us in the middle distance , which is as near or far as anywhere else seems to get , lie other havens of plaster and flora . |
| 2 | There 's tell of tripe dressers , cruelty to eels and even fish and chip limericks like A widow who fried at Dunbar Had a bust much admired , near and far When she asked ‘ Shall I wrap ‘ em ? ’ |
| 3 | For a town of this rank it seems almost incredible until we recall that Walsingham enjoyed a lucrative tourist trade as far and away the most popular resort of pilgrimage , the shrine alone deriving an income of £250 a year from the pious offerings of the faithful , compared with the meagre £36 to which that of St Thomas at Canterbury had by then shrunk . |
| 4 | I am glad to have the chance to follow the right hon. Member for Shropshire , North ( Mr. Biffen ) , whom I certainly regard as far and away the most successful Leader of the House in all my time here . |
| 5 | A person ‘ is self to itself now ’ and is always conscious of his present thoughts , feelings , and actions ; similarly , he ‘ will be the same self as far as the same consciousness can extend to actions past or to come ’ . |
| 6 | The extensive discussion of the topic in Chapter 2 led to rejection of the account offered by Wagner for habituation , but this may be just as well as far as his theory of latent inhibition is concerned . |
| 7 | They were good value , because they were in a style that he could wear anywhere and they were strong enough for all his walking and kept his feet from being bruised on the city pavements , for when you walk as much and as far as Boy did at that time you can hurt your feet badly . |
| 8 | Such men push the boundaries as far as they can to try to get their women to love them , dirt and all . |
| 9 | Such a legacy was hardly encouraging as far as the setting up of a free , unfettered press after independence was concerned . |
| 10 | Willmott ( 1966 ) chose to use young Australians and New Zealanders in his research into the activities of adolescent boys , on the assumption that they would be seen by the boys as neutral as far as class and social background were concerned . |
| 11 | No other British painter of our time has received such widespread recognition , reaching as far as the imagery in Bertolucci 's Last Tango in Paris and Pasolini 's Teorema . |
| 12 | A study of different ways to burn up plutonium by America 's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came out against such clevernesses , at least as far as using up America 's surplus plutonium is concerned ( though it did recommend more research into a few ) . |
| 13 | So although positivist criminology did concern itself with social and economic conditions , in a way that classical criminology did not , it mostly ended up just as timid-looking as far as drawing ‘ corrective ’ conclusions was concerned . |
| 14 | Acer UK Ltd 's Christopher Hay says the company is ‘ comfortable ’ with SCO 's recently declared intention to edge towards Unix SVR4 and says Acer 's collaboration in the ACE initiative has provided the firm with the experience of RISC and Microsoft NT should that be required in the future , though it only has Intel 's P5 part in its sights at present as far as chip technology goes . |
| 15 | Taking it as far as it can be taken , Hegel suggests that the conflict between myself and the person in whom my identity resides will become a struggle between life and death , because , he says , it is only by risking one 's life that one becomes fully aware of oneself as a free , autonomous individual . |
| 16 | Such an analysis is accurate as far as it goes , but when we consider the sense of the lines it is quite misleading.14 For " by number " is not a method of summoning the stars that is parallel to " by name " . |
| 17 | Ann thought it unseemly to kiss her husband in public , but she had no such reservations as far as her son was concerned , and hugged him tight , choking on her words as she whispered to him to take care of himself . |
| 18 | As far as I remember , the wearing of pyjamas is n't mentioned anywhere in the Ten Commandments , is it ? ’ |
| 19 | As far as we knew , the only block to Britain 's continued improvement in relations with Iran had been the Rushdie affair . |
| 20 | The Audit Commission performs the same functions as far as local authorities and the National Health Service are concerned , in England and Wales . |
| 21 | As far as my own taste in music is concerned I like everything from ragtime to opera , but prefer the classical composers such as Mozart , Beethoven , Strauss and Tchaikovsky . |
| 22 | I was not conscious of this — it could have lasted twice as long as far as I was concerned . |
| 23 | The different species of trees are not all making their livings in exactly the same way , but as far as the particular race we are talking about is concerned — the race for the sunlight above the canopy — they are competitors for the same resource . |
| 24 | When one takes a longer-run view of the monopoly situation , one sees that it was won by competition , and that it represents , as such ( and as far as it goes ) a step forward in the entrepreneurial process of the market . |
| 25 | As far as I am aware , no senior officer in the Navy considers it possible to maintain the nuclear deterrent without four submarines — and certainly no senior naval officer would support the suggestion of the Labour candidate for Barrow and Furness that the fourth submarine should be turned into a 17,000 tonne sub-sea supply vessel delivering oil instead of missiles . |
| 26 | ‘ That the Directors be and are hereby authorised to establish and to permit the Company 's subsidiaries to establish such employee share schemes as they consider appropriate for the participation therein of employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries who are resident or working overseas , and from time to time to make to permit the making of such alterations thereto as they consider necessary or appropriate provided always that the terms of such schemes shall , as far as is appropriate having regard to local circumstances and local taxation consideration , be similar to those of the Dawson International Savings Related Share Option Scheme and that the overall limits on the number of Ordinary Shares in the Company which may be subscribed for under all the Company 's employee share schemes shall not be increased thereby and that Ordinary Shares which may be subscribed for under such overseas schemes shall count towards such limits . ’ |
| 27 | It would n't be a fair fight either ; there 's no such thing as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 28 | And I think the other thing that 's important to bear in mind as well as far as logging 's concerned is that a lot of the poor slash-and-burn cultivators that come in have come along roads that the logging companies have built , and these provide easy access , say straight into the heart of the Amazon or what ever . |