Example sentences of "far as the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consignments arrive at Burnt Oak every Thursday afternoon to crowds of eager bargain hunters who travel from as far as the Lake District and Newcastle . |
| 2 | Last time round they went to south east Asia , trekked in Nepal as far as the Everest base camp , saw Thailand and China then came back on the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 3 | I checked to see if Armstrong was still there and then I risked a crouching run as far as the Sierra 's tail lights . |
| 4 | So far as the La Pintada case [ 1985 ] A.C. 104 is concerned , that case differs from the present in the following material respects : ( 1 ) In the La Pintada case the plaintiffs were seeking to establish an extension of the common law that would apply in parallel to the statutory provisions . |
| 5 | As far as The Smiths were concerned the importance of this success can not be underestimated . |
| 6 | In Suleyman 's time he returned to the medrese stream , teaching as far as the Sahn and then becoming kadi successively in Aleppo , Damascus and Istanbul , in retirement from which last post he died in 963/1555–6 . |
| 7 | As far as the RAF was concerned , they had this nice little lull when losses fell substantially , so it was for us a calm period in the storm . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State 's duty so far as the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge are concerned , is only to ‘ consult . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As far as the UK is concerned , ’ said Keith Standford of Amada in England , ‘ it 's in dispute which particular model will eventually be on sale here . |
| 10 | So far as the UK is concerned , the proposed Directive contains little that is new in substance and , indeed , it shows clear signs of actually being based on the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers , the UK rulebook for takeovers . |
| 11 | Our understanding is that , as far as the UK is concerned , generally accepted accounting principles have precedence over statutory requirements . ’ |
| 12 | A straightforward explanation for this is that inflation affects all voters whereas unemployment tends to be heavily concentrated on ( as far as the UK is concerned ) areas not noted for extensive Conservative support . |
| 13 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 14 | As far as the Lockerbie allegations go , Libya has plainly discharged its obligations under Article 5 by instituting criminal proceedings against its two accused nationals . |
| 15 | ‘ What you have here is a traditional account of Masai origins , but also mixed with the arrival of this woman — I am assuming , although it is not my business , the ethnographer , Claude Cohn-Casson — yes , okay , well , there was an incident during the war , a famous incident as far as the Masai is concerned , when a British official was killed in a very small dispute about cattle . |
| 16 | In the Appalachian region there were repeated uplifts giving rise to coarse detritus in the trough to the west , whilst a vast shallow carbonate-depositing sea extended over the stable interior of North America as far as the Pacific ranges . |
| 17 | In so far as the Manchester Corporation case is inconsistent with the principle to which I have referred it is wrong and is not good law . |
| 18 | Simon explains : ‘ As far as the USA game is concerned , we were not aware that there was a problem . |
| 19 | Moreover , as far as the USA was concerned — but vestigially this was probably also true of the USSR before the Gorbachev era — the basic conflict was ideological , the triumph of the ‘ right ’ ideology being equated with the supremacy of the appropriate superpower . |
| 20 | Perhaps he was looking for a drink by the time he had climbed as far as the Piazza where three renaissance palaces , a town hall and cathedral confront each other across an open space of such lively dignity and harmony as to make the lack of tourist cafes completely forgivable . |
| 21 | In the year A.D. 43 , Emperor Claudius sent an army under Aulus Plautius , who quickly subdued Kent as far as the Medway where again the British forces gathered to oppose the Romans . |
| 22 | So far as the Galway schoolboy was concerned , he was not much preoccupied in future by the Sinn Fein enemy who had driven him out . |
| 23 | A further exploration with von Wissmann in 1939 took him from Aden , through the almost unknown highlands to the north-east as far as the Wadi Jirdan and on into Hadhramaut , the results appearing in his Aden to the Hadhramaut ( 1947 ) . |
| 24 | The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit , a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain . |
| 25 | In retrospect , was leaving Lotus alone the wrong thing to do as far as the Elan was concerned ? |
| 26 | The 1936 Act was certainly effective so far as the United Kingdom was concerned . |
| 27 | Legally , it would seem that nothing less would do , so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 28 | Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 29 | In so far as the United Kingdom might wish to argue that it itself has the right under the Convention to retain requirements such as those at issue , reference can also be made to the court 's judgment in Commission of the European Economic Community v. Italian Republic ( Case 10/61 ) [ 1962 ] E.C.R. 1 , from which it appears that according to the principles of international law , a member state which , by virtue of the entry into force of the E.E.C . |
| 30 | As far as the United Kingdom is concerned there is one major and very simple reason for this — exporting is necessary for our economic survival . |