Example sentences of "[noun sg] as far as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a Christmas assembly at Aachen in 837 , having carefully built up aristocratic and episcopal support , and secured the agreement of Pippin ( whose own ambitions in Francia now looked blighted ) and Louis the German , Louis solemnly conferred on Charles " a part of the regnum " , with the following boundaries : the greater part of the Belgic provinces , in other words , the whole of Frisia from the North Sea and Saxon frontier as far as the frontier of the Ripuarian Franks , and along the latter , the counties of Mulekewe , Ettra , Hamarlant and Maasgau ; then all the territory between the Meuse and Seine as far south as Burgundy , including Verdun ; and going from Burgundy , the counties of Toul , Ornois , Blois , Blaisois , Perthois , the two Bars [ i.e. Bar-le-Duc and Bar-sur-Aube ] , Brienne , Troyes , Auxerre , Sens , the Gâtinais , Melun , Etampes , the Pays de Châtres , and Paris ; then along the Seine to the Channel and up the coast as far as Frisia again : within these , all the bishoprics , abbacies , counties , fisclands , and all pertaining thereto . |
| 2 | It is clear , furthermore , that Categories 1 and 2 do not impose an evidential burden on the defendant as far as the consent issue is concerned , for generally speaking , where the defence seeks to do no more than deny the prosecution 's assertion , it is entitled to have its claims placed before the jury . |
| 3 | He cursed her , and blessed her , and fumed away on her errand as far as the door ; and turned there to say with genuine fury : ‘ Am I mad , that I turn you loose to take your chance among wolves ? |
| 4 | On either side as far as the eye could see , long lines of children , dwarfed by the adults stooped over the restless machinery , reached or crawled , snatched or darted , in and out of the network of rattling belts and hissing pipes , playing a constant game with death . |
| 5 | Frost is the biggest killer as far as the size of crops harvested in Champagne is concerned . |
| 6 | In another change of tack — there was a time when OS/2 was the whole future as far as the company was concerned , Microsoft Corp is switching its signals and is now making it clear that it expects MS-DOS users to prepare to switch to Windows NT . |
| 7 | He established trading connections with the sultan of Kedah , by whom he was offered in 1771 the port and the coast as far as the island of Penang in return for help against the Bugis of Selangor . |
| 8 | The very digestibility of the fruit , however , may be a disadvantage as far as the plant is concerned . |
| 9 | Secondly , if the tenant is entitled to break at a specified date linked to a rent review , the effect of the break-clause may be to make time of the essence as far as the review is concerned ( United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley Borough Council [ 1977 ] 2 All ER 62 at 77 , 98 ) . |
| 10 | This analysis will have relevance as far as the passing of property and risk is concerned ( see Chapter 10 ) where the goods are damaged in the meantime ( Clarke v Reilly ( 1962 ) 96 ILTR 96 ) . |
| 11 | ( i ) The highest possible operating convenience and efficiency ; ( ii ) Easy and direct means of access and egress for passengers and vehicles ; ( iii ) The standardization of construction and equipment as far as the site and circumstances permit ; ( iv ) Its immediate recognition as a railway station within the limits of harmony with its surrounding . |
| 12 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 13 | Later generations spread south as far as the tip of South America ; later still they reached similar latitudes in southern New Zealand . |
| 14 | The plain stretched north and south as far as the eye could see and there was no sign of either vegetation or habitation — nothing but dust , rock and sand . |
| 15 | One minute you 're surrounded by the modern bustle of Egypt 's capital — the next you come face to face with ancient history as a sprawling housing estate is replaced by the stately pyramids and sand as far as the eye can see . |
| 16 | For once she would probably have been better off staying at home as far as the weather was concerned . |
| 17 | However , there are major limitations to this approach — it can be time consuming and expensive for the promoters , while the exercise can also degenerate into a public relations exercise as far as the public is concerned . |
| 18 | However that did not affect the central question of whether those stock dividends were to comprise a capital or income receipt as far as the beneficiary was concerned . |
| 19 | I tracked the boy as far as the factory , but there it ended . |
| 20 | If the VKPB brought together the extreme Stalinist wing of the CPSU and had very few supporters , the larger tendency in the former CPSU , conservative as far as the economy is concerned rather than from an historical point of view , formed the Russian Communist Workers Party or RKRP . |
| 21 | At ten o'clock each evening , except in the very worst weather , Francis and his dog took their walk along the waterfront as far as the yacht marina and returned by the street . |
| 22 | Now , erm , yes , I 'd like to pick up a comment made by the Director , erm , he said quite rightly that the prevention factor is really out of the window as far as the budget is concerned , and pro as far as operations are concerned . |
| 23 | It seems to be referring to a document that that that sets out the whole total quality process as far as the commission is concerned . |
| 24 | I am not medical or a scientist , but can guess that the garlic affects the whole of the blood stream as far as the insect is concerned . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Matisse 's strongest period as far as the market is concerned , is that of the 1930s and '40s when he was moving towards abstraction . |
| 27 | Very important for the physics , because what 's happening at that point as far as the physics is concerned , when the acceleration is zero , not , think of a racing car accelerating up to top speed , down the straight and it just ca n't go any faster , it 's got up to a hundred and eighty miles an hour , and it 's |
| 28 | One final point as far as the design of questionnaires is concerned . |
| 29 | Morris , Hoggart and Hudson agreed that the afternoon 's debate on press and public relations would be a doddle as far as the platform was concerned . |
| 30 | Consequently if some process , such as cracking or ‘ erosion ’ by mantle plumes , punctures the continental lithosphere as far as the crust the relatively dense mantle layer of the lithosphere could become detached and sink ( Fig. 4.8 ) . |