Example sentences of "[adv] as far [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Windows was the environment of choice — the DOS version works identically as far as the mechanics are concerned , except that pretty Windows graphics are replaced by character based displays . |
2 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
3 | Perhaps the notice could be altered to indicate that the path leads only as far as the river . |
4 | Whilst most modern witch covens can be traced back only as far as the revival stimulated by Gerald Gardner and the repeal of the Witchcraft Acts in the 1950s , there still exist traditional covens which date back much further . |
5 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
6 | The French government acceded to her request that she be buried at Malmaison , but her son was permitted to accompany the funeral only as far as the frontier between France and Switzerland . |
7 | Then he strode away — but only as far as the corner of the hearing room , temporarily out of range of the television cameras . |
8 | Once or twice they walked together as far as the river . |
9 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
10 | Magnificent Karnak , with its corridors of stone rams , sky-embracing pillars and gigantic inscrutable statues , stretching apparently as far as the eye can see , is breathtaking . |
11 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
12 | Damon could copy anyone 's handwriting and had been told by their class teacher , in a burst of anger , that he would go far , perhaps as far as the Scrubs for forgery . |
13 | Latvian tombs , hoards of treasure found in Estonia , jewellery , statuettes and household articles discovered in Poland , together with objects from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds illustrate how this people of warriors and merchants expanded eastward as far as the Caliphate of Baghdad , while excavations in ‘ Norman ’ territory ( at Downham in Norfolk and in the vicinity of Rouen ) provide proof of Norse expansionism in another direction . |
14 | The grassy countryside was flat on either side , stretching away as far as the eye could see . |
15 | The apparent extension of the effects of the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plates to much of central and eastern Asia , and possibly as far as the Baikal Rift ( Fig. 3.21 ) , in fact indicates that the consequences of plate interaction need not necessarily be confined to plate margins . |
16 | Concern was expressed with the results of this free-for-all policy , both as far as the number of solicitors from large firms was concerned and in respect of the quality of advocacy : |
17 | I would not have done it any differently as far as the involvement of GM and Lotus . ’ |
18 | I would not have done it any differently as far as the involvement of GM and Lotus . |
19 | And even beyond would be snowbound , perhaps right as far as the sea . |
20 | The French writer Hippolyte Taine , in the not on the whole very friendly account he published of a journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century , tells , all too vividly , an unpleasant story of a fourteenth-century mayor of Bayonne who tried to extend his jurisdiction up-river as far as the tide went , so as to stop Basque smugglers from defrauding him , and who tied a number of local Basque gentry to the arches of a bridge and watched the tide come up and slowly drown them . |
21 | Not that all these concerns about pedigree matter a damn as far as the music is concerned — it 's jus tot give your ears a clue as to what to expect . |
22 | They make the 2600 kilometre trip regularly , transporting the GSi Astras from their base near Dungannon to GM Spain 's headquarters in Madrid and on to events throughout the country — even as far as the Canary Islands . |
23 | In a brief period of energetic expansion , Samuilo enlarged his empire , from its centre in the Prespa/Ohrid area , so that by the end of the century it extended from the Black Sea to the Adriatic and into Greece , even as far as the Peleponnesus , although the Aegean port of Salonika successfully resisted his attempts to occupy it . |
24 | ‘ I want some continuity in the squad , going down even as far as the schoolboy grade ’ . |
25 | The months after the initial furore over the Report 's publication were fairly quiet , particularly as far as the possibilities of legislation on the matter were concerned . |
26 | ‘ Until the day after tomorrow as far as the fireworks are concerned . |
27 | erm I mean , I really do feel that at least as far as the division 's concerned , there ought to be a separate set of equipment that is mobile . |
28 | It is , however , established that the demise of one floor of a building extends at least as far as the underside of the joists supporting the floor above it ( Sturge v Hackett ) . |
29 | A chemical fire in Switzerland caused toxic materials to be transported by the Rhine at least as far as the Netherlands ; |
30 | It is felt that s740 does not present a problem in this case ( at least as far as the payment of monies by the trust to the client to enable the client to discharge interest payments on the loan taken out to buy a UK property is concerned ) . |