Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adv] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is good news for the company since all three markets are relatively recession-proof so far as the demand for their product is concerned , which in turn makes them a fairly buoyant customer base . |
| 2 | These were highly controversial so far as the implementation of the Regulation is concerned , with the British Department of National Heritage fearing an increase by 250,000 in export documents required by the antiquities trade , as all archaeological goods , even of no value , are required to have export papers . |
| 3 | Damp is acceptable so long as the cellar is not in use and so long as it does not rise above the ground floor dpc . |
| 4 | Whether the victim did believe that immediate violence would be used is immaterial so long as the offender intended to cause the victim to have that belief . |
| 5 | But I imagine this often happens — people are for all practical purposes sane as far as the analyst 's door and become mad as they stretch themselves out and explain their sanity . |
| 6 | Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out . |
| 7 | It was this very situation — one where the workers themselves could take control of the struggle , organise and demand on their own behalf — which was not acceptable as far as the trade union bureaucracy and leadership were concerned . |
| 8 | On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) . |
| 9 | Within the general array of conflicts arising from the pursuit of national interests there was until recently one predominant conflict , crucial so far as the possibility of nuclear war is concerned , between the US and the Soviet Union , and their respective allies or client states , which affected directly or indirectly all international relationships . |
| 10 | Businessmen should be allowed to put the position straight so far as the Revenue is concerned and with the minimum of fuss , not ‘ taken to the cleaners ’ by a second Government department . |
| 11 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 12 | The UK solution to the need for a continuous and systematic comparison of the two is to keep them separate as far as the double-entry is concerned but to report them side-by-side . |
| 13 | Therefore , a work may be easy in one respect and hard in others ; for example , Silkin 's short poem ‘ The Worm ’ is straightforward as far as the vocabulary and sentence structure are concerned but , even so , the meaning of the poem is by no means transparent . |
| 14 | It must be very difficult to be objective so far as the curriculum and level of knowledge of certain subjects are concerned . |
| 15 | In particular , the option writer 's possible gain is restricted to the price at which he sells the option , the option premium , while his potential exposure to loss is unlimited so long as the contract remains open . |
| 16 | If a proper return is not so delivered the company is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine and a daily default fine so long as the contravention continues . |
| 17 | We were lucky in finding something to drink but unfortunate as far as the crumpet was concerned . |
| 18 | Alicia Lockwood had said , " In front of them both , Mr. Crowther , so that they both catch on — I do n't care if it is embarrassing so long as the idea gets into their heads . " |
| 19 | After the route closed , the track remained intact as far as the depot , which still stored surplus seasonal cars . |
| 20 | That 's right as far as the arm is concerned we 've got to be cautious , there . |
| 21 | This seems a paradox but it is not : the system is geared to the needs of the operating units but the units are expendable so long as the system remains intact . |
| 22 | From time to time a ferret does get bitten by a rat , usually by a female defending her young , but the clash is never fatal so far as the ferret is concerned . |
| 23 | But we got some of that pressure off right away , and I think it proved very important as far as the way the tournament went from then on . |
| 24 | Correct measurement of doors and windows is particularly important as far as the moving of furniture is concerned . |
| 25 | The thesis of ‘ The intentional fallacy ’ , that the meaning of the words in a text is , and should be treated as , a matter of public knowledge , seems wholly unexceptionable as far as the dictionary-definition ( the ‘ denotation ’ ) of words is concerned ; but it seems much more problematic when one takes account of the broader associations that words carry with them ( ‘ connotations ’ ) . |
| 26 | The first sign of the present pattern of occurrence is detectable as early as the winter of 1953/54 , but an increase has been most marked since the winter of 1961/62 . |
| 27 | There were interviews of which oral evidence was given in the inquiry ordered by the visitor but these were found by Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle to be neutral so far as the question at issue falls to be considered . |
| 28 | The fact that consent was obtained by a trick or by fraud is irrelevant so long as the consent was given to the agent in his capacity as a mercantile agent . |
| 29 | A consequence of this is that women with undiagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes , which is potentially as risky for the pregnancy as insulin dependent diabetes , are lumped together with women who have abnormalities of glucose tolerance that are trivial so far as the index pregnancy is concerned . |
| 30 | Erm we 've had a , a major accident in nineteen fifty er ninety fifty seven , one of the Winscale small reactors at Winscale caught fire er the Americans had an accident at Three Mile Island which erm w was catastrophic as far as the reactor was concerned , but the safety devices prevented any radioactivity escaping the Russians have had their Three Mile I er their erm Chernobyl accident which was catastrophic . |