Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] as far as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ . |
| 2 | Recent decisions from Europe give clear rules as far as the union 's concerned and I hope the Labour Party . |
| 3 | He did n't have a striped jersey or a bag marked Swag as far as the Old Bill are concerned . ’ |
| 4 | • the paths of daily life and work : of these , the newly laid-out path extends from the old building as far as the workshops ; |
| 5 | And , as anywhere else , transitory lighting can turn a nondescript topography into a picture , as up on the Barkly Tableland where the narrow tarmac ribbon is frayed at the edges into blond tussocky grass as far as the eye can see . |
| 6 | There have been three Railway Gas Works at Wolverton and gas was supplied by the Company to all Wolverton and Old Wolverton as far as the Old Wolverton turn , to all of New Bradwell and the Bradville Estate , the former having its own gasometer positioned at the western end of Bridge Street alongside the canal . |
| 7 | For it was the Spirit who called Philip from his successful mission in Samaria to reach the Ethiopian eunuch with the gospel ( 8:29 and probably 26 ) , and led him on his further preaching tour as far as the very Hellenised city of Caesarea . |
| 8 | I remembered arriving in Cross the previous day on the school bus noticing the universal teatime re-fuelling of hundreds of fires and stores ; fresh puffing chimneys as far as the eye could see . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I checked to see if Armstrong was still there and then I risked a crouching run as far as the Sierra 's tail lights . |
| 11 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 12 | " The lower stratosphere is the really crucial area as far as the ozone layer is concerned , " commented Dr John Pyle of the European Ozone Research Co-ordinating Unit in Cambridge . |
| 13 | To achieve maximum benefit in terms of information skills and the use of information , each database should be seen as a separate entity as far as the design of the records and indexing is concerned , although an overall pattern for database use within the school is beneficial . |
| 14 | This obviously causes a minor slow down in perceived performance as far as the SX chip is concerned , but the percentage difference is small enough to be negligible in real world applications . |
| 15 | Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time . |
| 16 | As long as boys remain sexually immature they are of no real significance as far as the primal , sexually motivated conflict between sons and fathers is concerned . |
| 17 | None of this had been cleared or replanted ; it was scrub woodland as nature had made it , the real thing as far as the boys were concerned . |
| 18 | He seems to have known enough about ordinary medicine — and perhaps still have had the contacts within the profession — to make sure that I got my inoculations and injections at the correct times in my life , despite my official non-existence as far as the National Health Service is concerned . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 21 | The tumbled surface of the sea looked blue-green , with white horses as far as the eye could see . |
| 22 | Cross-references to this appendix are given by italic numbers , ( eg 16 ) From Joseph Conrad , The Secret Sharer On my right hand there were lines of fishing-stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences , incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes , and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean ; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach ( 1 ) . |
| 23 | In addition , recruitment is a major activity in any personnel department and it frequently gives rise to administration problems of an essentially mundane nature which are , nevertheless , a major irritant as far as the personnel manager is concerned . |
| 24 | The Liberal Democrats may have wasted their money on the personality cult of Paddy Ashdown , but he is certainly not a negative factor as far as the forgiving women of Richmond are concerned . |
| 25 | Such was Vologsky 's mission today ; to overfly the very Sino-Soviet border at Alma-Ata then cruise along the Sin-kiang border as far as the Turfan Depression taking photographic , radar and infra-red records . |
| 26 | Consumers rapidly became aware that they had paid a low price because very little had been invested by manufacturers to ensure durability , integrity of the wordlist or good functionality as far as the software was concerned . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , it is n't the Done Thing to poach people — let alone a whole unit — from an Ally , ’ George went on , ‘ but our East German operations had completely fallen apart , the place had become a total black hole as far as The Firm knew , and they were desperate . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | I suppose it was one way of ensuring that staff returned to the fold , but I 'm not so sure that it was a good idea as far as the staff was concerned . |
| 30 | Labour 's prime interest as far as the citizenship of entitlement is concerned is with the social element , and the party is also committed , within the resources available , to improving this . |