Example sentences of "as far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as you are concerned , a covenant can be exceedingly simple . |
| 2 | Without using any money , some of the escapees got as far as North Wales , Yorkshire , and Scotland . |
| 3 | His aim in this was as far as possible to translate changes of tones into changes of colour , feeling that only by this method could the full saturation and pressure of colour be realized . |
| 4 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
| 5 | I got as far as Grantchester and I thought , fuck it , yes , why not ? |
| 6 | The two societies gave expression to their own dominant interests as far as possible unhindered by each other 's interference . |
| 7 | The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and , with due regard to the equal right of life of the mother , guarantees in its laws to respect , and , as far as practicable , by its laws , defend and vindicate that right . |
| 8 | Arabella Buckley hissed out the words , but Sven Hjerson thought it very likely they had been carried by the sticky breeze as far as the couple in the prow . |
| 9 | From the yet more gloomy expression on his normally lugubrious face it was evident that he had resigned himself to her companionship at least as far as his hotel perched up far above the sea . |
| 10 | ‘ She has n't got any extensions as far as I can see , ’ I said . |
| 11 | ‘ As far as I can see only Mr Merrivale is in the clear ’ , went on Mary . |
| 12 | That , I knew , was it as far as my family was concerned . |
| 13 | ‘ We both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 15 | Actually , as far as I can gather , it 's just their jargon for a bedsit house . |
| 16 | Merely pushing the lever forwards as far as it will go is not enough because the lock may be very stiff . |
| 17 | one of my sections in the subdivision is thinking of declaring UDI [ unilateral declaration of independence ] from the Divisional Headquarters … as for Headquarters and the Force organizational structure , well that 's just a joke as far as these men are concerned . |
| 18 | Also train on the punch bag , aiming your kicks as high as you can and reaching as far as possible . |
| 19 | However , do n't thrust the chin forwards and only pull back the withdrawing hand as far as the side of the face — not to the ribs or the hip . |
| 20 | Your leading hand is used to perform a reverse punch , but it does n't travel as far as a refereeing panel would like . |
| 21 | So he divided the people , half to scour the right bank of the river down the forested links and narrows as far as the meadows above Logierait and force a signature from every proprietor , half to come with him to the north side ; they would all meet at Haugh of Ballechin after the sun had set and plan for tomorrow . |
| 22 | The threat was enough to stop Rita and Bob going as far as their friends with real rude words . |
| 23 | Outside the kitchen were brambles and thistles as far as the eye could see . |
| 24 | Loud music flooded the room ; on the screen people were dancing , as far as the eye could see . |
| 25 | As far as I can see , the only way to do this is to adopt a behaviouristic approach to this knowledge and characterize it as an ability to discriminate visual objects . |
| 26 | And that is — I am afraid - as far as it goes . |
| 27 | Bearing all this in mind , what are we to make of Searle 's ( 1984 ) claim that the brain does not identify faces via information processing of the kind described in cognitive models and that , as far as the cognitive sciences are concerned , there may simply be no story to tell ? |
| 28 | This goes back at least as far as Aristotle . |
| 29 | The demand for shell suits in shiny crinkle and trilobal fabrics is waning and there will certainly be less of these versions around by next spring as far as the more fashion conscious wearer is concerned . |
| 30 | Therefore , if you are in a building-up period as far as weight training is concerned , you should keep the FDR work at a low rate . |