Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as far as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 2 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 3 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 4 | The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin . |
| 5 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 6 | Tendrils of Virginia creeper crept down as far as the window-frame , and progressed on little circular suckers across the glass , at huge vegetable speed . |
| 7 | Latvian tombs , hoards of treasure found in Estonia , jewellery , statuettes and household articles discovered in Poland , together with objects from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds illustrate how this people of warriors and merchants expanded eastward as far as the Caliphate of Baghdad , while excavations in ‘ Norman ’ territory ( at Downham in Norfolk and in the vicinity of Rouen ) provide proof of Norse expansionism in another direction . |
| 8 | And this was just one of a number of sites , known only to Halim and his team , where the early Chinese mariners had buried their dead together , as was their custom , with porcelain some of which had been fired in the imperial kilns of the Sung and Ming dynasties and dated back as far as the eleventh century . |
| 9 | It could date back as far as the middle of the ninth century and was closely associated with the later castle . |
| 10 | Perhaps the notice could be altered to indicate that the path leads only as far as the river . |
| 11 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 12 | In a review of studies on the ability of the older worker to learn , going back as far as the 1920s , it was concluded that changes in learning ability with age are generally small . |
| 13 | Cruising along the crest , we could see almost as far as the coast to one side and over Bilsdale mast to the Cleveland Hills on the other . |
| 14 | My method was to look ahead as far as the eye could see , work out the route mentally , then , leaving the wheelbarrow , test the ground in small sections and mark the way with my feet . |
| 15 | They clattered on as far as the door ; under workbenches , into cracks , finding every obscure corner . |
| 16 | Once or twice they walked together as far as the river . |
| 17 | The larger mire , Thorne Waste , approached by surmounting the incongruous dereliction of Moor Ends Colliery , stretches out as far as the eye can see , an astonishing 6,000 acres of untamed wetland . |
| 18 | The private grounds surrounding the villa offer relaxation either by the swimming pool , which is equipped with deck-chairs and umbrellas , or in the shade of centuries old trees where a meandering spectacle of olive groves , vineyards , fields and hills stretches out as far as the eye can see . |
| 19 | The Roraima survivors described burning rum running down the streets and even into the sea , spreading out as far as the ship and causing small fires on her . |
| 20 | There was one kid , however , who did n't move back as far as the rest of his row , so I politely asked him to get in line . |
| 21 | They have got a program of what 's being pulled out as far as the trucks are concerned . |
| 22 | Spider silk is made from proteins , and is nearly as strong as nylon , though it can be stretched twice as far as the man-made material . |
| 23 | He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day . |
| 24 | Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration . |
| 25 | The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century . |
| 26 | These divisions run very deep and go back as far as the available documents provide information on such matters . |
| 27 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 28 | The Mentawai Islands off the west coast of Sumatra represent the highest parts of the outer-arc ridge of the Sunda Arc and this structure can be traced northwards as far as the Indoburman Ranges in Burma ( Fig. 3.9 ) . |
| 29 | In certain species , the long , fine roots trail below as far as the muddy or sandy bottom and anchor the plant , still giving it ample freedom for floating . |
| 30 | The direct influence of the LLP extended only as far as the metropolitan boundary at Bethnal Green ; the West Ham Labour Party was autonomous . |