Example sentences of "least as far as the " in BNC.

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1 This was clearly a wild exaggeration , but it showed , at least as far as the large Catholic minority of Belorussia was concerned , that any attempt to base nationalism on Catholic separatism would be doomed to failure .
2 Therefore it does not look as though the explanation of the action clients ' failure to be supported at home for longer than control samples is due to their more problematic home care potential ( at least as far as the characteristics described above are concerned ) .
3 A chemical fire in Switzerland caused toxic materials to be transported by the Rhine at least as far as the Netherlands ;
4 He would go with them at least as far as the bridge .
5 So the Cabriolet 's top is hollow down at least as far as the bass E string , and I suspect a little further .
6 Gibraltar , for instance , is often used to hold Spanish assets , although the Spanish tax authorities are aware of the situation and attempting to limit it at least as far as the holding of real property is concerned .
7 The study of the proposed L.R.T. system had been ordered by the Department of the Environment , and it appeared to all intents and purposes that any future for the Comber-Dundonald portion of the line , at least as far as the Trust was concerned , were dead and buried , as it seemed evident that the D.O.E .
8 Indeed , Beccaria 's classical model , at least as far as the form and content of actual penal treatments are concerned , has never really been tried — if we are to accept Foucault 's version of events .
9 That unhinging extended back at least as far as the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , a crisis which allowed Franklin Roosevelt finally to break free from the congressional restraints on executive action that had been operative in the inter war period .
10 But at least as far as the church is concerned , a conservative believes that what place a woman should hold was made known in the past and stands for all time .
11 Commenting on the composition of the Edinburgh Trades Council in mid-century , Ian McDougall writes : " local trade unionism was predominantly , though not exclusively , that of the skilled workers or labour aristocracy " In printing , a craft trade par excellence , organization went back as least as far as the eighteenth century in Edinburgh and several other towns .
12 Another reason for norm-referenced tests not providing a description of what a pupil knows and can do is the lack of clear specification of learning objectives , at least as far as the formulation of pupil performance on the test is concerned .
13 Chapter 12 will examine the challenge to the notion that the shareholders are uniquely qualified to be holders of residual rights , and the argument that a form of productive organisation in which the trading surplus accrues to the employees rather than the providers of capital is capable of operating no less efficiently , at least as far as the control of shirking is concerned , than the existing corporate form .
14 This difference of perspective and lack of immediate concern with definitions of power and with empiricist rigour result in research methods which may appear to be more approximate in their conclusions than are the pluralists , at least as far as the distribution of power is concerned .
15 In any case , even the GCC itself recognises that such a defence structure will be inadequate — at least as far as the Gulf is concerned .
16 One of the bearded pig 's most endearing habits — at least as far as the human inhabitants of its native Borneo are concerned — is its tendency , in the occasional year , to form huge herds and plunge lemming-like through the rainforest in a desperate craving for a certain food item ( a kind of acorn , it is thought ) , whose supply fluctuates .
17 The more I thought about it , the more I looked forward to seeing this little known mountainous region , and I had every intention of penetrating at least as far as the Webi Shebeli river .
18 The cold feed to the cylinder and the vent pipe must be at least 22mm in diameter ; it is best if the hot water distribution pipes are 22mm as well — at least as far as the connection to the branch pipe for the bath .
19 The problem results from the fact that the compulsory element in the Directive , so far as it exists , relates merely to the transfer of the contract of employment , but the contract of employment is a consensual relationship , at least as far as the employee is concerned , and so it is in principle available to be terminated unilaterally by the employee at any time or to be modified with the joint consent of employee and employer .
20 Water-powered fulling mills were not new ; indeed they go back at least as far as the thirteenth century .
21 The HWIM system initially took a bottom-up , data-driven approach , at least as far as the lexical level , but encountered serious problems in matching the phonetic input to the stored lexical representations .
22 This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 .
23 Once again , an initially English impulse of research has proposed and substantially validated an a cappella approach which seems to offer one kind of solution to this problem , but while the evidence for such an approach now seems to be strong it is important to clarify what has taken place , at least as far as the secular polyphonic song repertories of the Middle Ages are concerned .
24 However , when it comes to larger scale public energy supply systems , eg large wind turbines , tidal barrages etc , people 's attitudes and behaviour might seem initially to be less significant , at least as far as the operation of the system is concerned .
25 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 ) .
26 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 ) .
27 Now , back to an age when British really was Best … at least as far as the motorbike was concerned .
28 LIKE death and taxes , criticism is one of life 's certainties , at least as far as the RUC is concerned .
29 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 .
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