Example sentences of "a [noun sg] as [adv] as the " in BNC.
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1 | And that meant quite a effect as far as the aborigines were concerned they had lost their territory ! |
2 | The very digestibility of the fruit , however , may be a disadvantage as far as the plant is concerned . |
3 | The hammer carved through his eyebrow and opened up a cut as deep as the frontal bone it cracked . |
4 | There 's still a difference as far as the parents are concerned . |
5 | Morris , Hoggart and Hudson agreed that the afternoon 's debate on press and public relations would be a doddle as far as the platform was concerned . |
6 | The box hedge is solid as a wall as far as the corner , but just round there it ends , and that short side is privet , and there 's a place in it where an old wicket 's been taken out , and the gap has n't grown in completely yet . |
7 | After the river , he took a train as far as the Burmese would allow foreigners to go , about a hundred miles short of their guerrilla war , and after that there was a vintage plane over mountains to the real Burma Road ; the road whose legend occupies an odd corner of the memory , like Hannibal 's Alpine venture . |
8 | If that 's all you 've got for the whole battalion , that 's a success as far as the tour is concerned , ’ he said . |
9 | We are not likely to find a cause as precisely as the tubercle bacillus can be shown to produce tuberculosis . |
10 | By the time her mother rose in an elegant flourish of Pucci and swept her towards the door in that ostentatiously motherly way she had , Jo was in a sulk as deep as the Pacific Trench . |
11 | Prior to nationalization in 1947 , the Dukeries was a vacuum as far as the Labour party was concerned . |