Example sentences of "[noun sg] as far as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new industry of salmon-farming has filled the gap as far as the scavenging gulls are concerned : the rearing cages are placed in the sheltered bays and ‘ sounds ’ between the islands and are fed on high-protein , manufactured food in pellet form , which are ferried out in sacks by small boats . |
| 2 | First , and of most immediate relevance as far as the tax-protest movement is concerned , the past two decades have witnessed a remarkable change in the nature of political dissent which has increasingly assumed unconstitutional and , on occasions , violent forms . |
| 3 | Leaving this area of the house behind her , she ran down the passage as far as the open pantry door . |
| 4 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 5 | But the single patient with x and not y does make a great deal of difference as far as the theoretical use of the concept is concerned . |
| 6 | This makes no difference as far as the clinical use of the concept of syndrome is concerned : it remains true that if you see x it is a good idea to look for y and z ( since they are so likely to be present ) . |
| 7 | Six weeks later , CT scanning showed a bulky pancreas and a large pseudocyst of the lesser sac , with fluid tracked down on the left side of the retroperitoneum in the anterior compartment , anterior to Gerota 's fascia as far as the left iliac dossa . |
| 8 | One ancient chronicler , Prokopie Kesarinski , refers to the Slavs and Antii crossing the Danube almost every year and attacking Illyria , Thrace and ‘ all the regions of the Ionian Gulf as far as the outlying districts of Constantinople ’ . |
| 9 | He ran up the street and through the town as far as the main road , where he saw a sign that told him it was just seventy miles from there to London . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ We all know about criminal cases and traffic offences , but there are many aspects of the work of the Magistrates Court which do not see the light of day as far as the general public are concerned , for example juvenile and matrimonial cases . |
| 13 | But , many of these , er many of these jobs of course as far as the young people were concerned were dead end jobs . |
| 14 | He did n't have a striped jersey or a bag marked Swag as far as the Old Bill are concerned . ’ |
| 15 | Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway represents a real success story as far as the British preservation movement is concerned . |
| 16 | After this phase of pronounced lateral development another period of westward extension carried the island as far as the Long Hills , where another closely spaced group of laterals suggests a further retardation of the island 's growth westwards . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Ulster entries are very thin on the ground as far as the English Derby is concerned . |
| 19 | It was presumably from present-day Manchuria that the Tungus tribes gradually spread northwards to pervade the taiga as far as the Arctic zone , from the Sea of Okhotsk in the east to the Yenisei in the west . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Liberate , pacemaker for Alphabatim , took the field along at a strong gallop as far as the straight , a good half mile from home , where he fell back and allowed Commanche Run to take up the running . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Apart from my arthritis , I 'm now a new man as far as the old ticker is concerned , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Starting off from the old town hall in the middle of the High Street he made his way slowly down the road as far as the Black Bull pub , accompanied by Mr Tim Devlin , who holds the Stockton South with a slender 774 majority , and his wife Carol . |
| 25 | But this is not the end of the matter as far as the discontented participant is concerned . |
| 26 | She adds that the Faculty 's proposed grandfathering clause watered down the value of the qualification as far as the new examination entrant is concerned . |
| 27 | The opening move strategy has all sorts of implications about the size or nature of your starting position as far as the other party is concerned . |
| 28 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 29 | Prior to nationalization in 1947 , the Dukeries was a vacuum as far as the Labour party was concerned . |
| 30 | 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 . |