Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] far as " in BNC.

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1 But basically as far as you are concerned you can get that sort of dividend yield , which is brilliant because i y as a tax-payer if you can te ten percent erm the , the fund is written as a unit trust and you 'd be paying seven you 'd be paid seven and a half percent on that one , so which one would you choose ?
2 Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ .
3 But only so far as this : that the Pioneers did not in fact succeed in creating the Manufacturing Society as a Co-operative .
4 Sometimes the Constitution limits the executive or subordinate local bodies ; sometimes it limits the legislature also , but only so far as amendment of the Constitution itself is concerned ; and sometimes it imposes restrictions upon the legislature which go far beyond this point and forbid it to make laws upon certain subjects or in a certain way or with certain effects .
5 Suppose it is clear that convention does not dictate an answer either way in McLoughlin : convention requires that precedents be followed , but only so far as a new case is like the precedents in relevant facts , and no past case has decided whether damages must be awarded for emotional injury away from the accident 's scene .
6 Then he strode away — but only as far as the corner of the hearing room , temporarily out of range of the television cameras .
7 Bull said it still continues to be part of ACE Consortium , but only as far as desktop Intel-based systems are concerned : it refused to be drawn over the question of whether its relationship with IBM would result in it favouring OS/2 over Windows 3 , saying only that ‘ Windows is what our customers are buying today ’ .
8 Be careful to spread the legs , not as far as they can go , but only as far as is comfortable .
9 As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married .
10 He flies to some distant part of the forest — usually 150 m ( nearly 200 yards ) , but sometimes as far as 3.5 km ( over 2 miles ) , away .
11 In contrast , they were responding correctly ( but insignificantly as far as the sales strategy was concerned ) to the two parameters σ and k on the first repetition , and were responding incorrectly ( but significantly ! ) to these parameters on the second repetition .
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