Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] as far [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party could only go as far as the unions would allow and their influence was apparent at all levels . |
| 2 | And you could only go as far as the money would go , could n't you ? |
| 3 | Could only get as far as the kitchen . |
| 4 | The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low . |
| 5 | We shall instead suggest ( 40 ) , where the fact that the arrowhead passes through the square bracket is intended to show that the minor property does not simply qualify the entity as a whole , but the fact that it does not reach as far as the round bracket shows that the adjective is not a sense-qualifier : ( 40 ) |
| 6 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 7 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
| 8 | Look , if you do n't mind a bit of running you could just come as far as the Tube with me and we could continue this conversation on the way . |
| 9 | He did not get as far as the main Cossack encampments at Peggetz and Oberdrauberg near Lienz , a considerable distance further west . |
| 10 | A recent claim by an accident and emergency consultant in Sheffield that children , and even adults , could regrow their finger tips , providing that the injury did not extend as far as the terminal or end joint , was greeted with considerable scepticism by the medical profession . |
| 11 | Whether we in this country could ever get as far as the Americans have done , remains to be seen . |
| 12 | Where a listed company promotes an on-market " buy-in " of its shares , where the shareholders usually sell to an intermediary and the intermediary sells back to the company , the capital gains tax rules , rather than the ACT/distribution regime , will also apply as far as the vendor shareholders are concerned . |
| 13 | It would n't exist as far as the programmer was concerned . |
| 14 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 15 | That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen , |
| 16 | They did n't even get as far as the bedroom , one of the soft rugs strewn over the carpeting in her lounge serving as their bed of reunion , Maria still partly and Luke almost fully clothed as they subsided on to its subtly glowing colours . |
| 17 | They did n't get as far as the Tibetan border , where the exchange rate would have been better . |
| 18 | The form is all you have in the initial stages , and if you do n't erm fill it out sensibly then you do n't get as far as the interview , when of course your individual personality can start to come through . |
| 19 | Some swim into the Baltic , others pass through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean and may even travel as far as the Black Sea . |