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 | The demand for shell suits in shiny crinkle and trilobal fabrics is waning and there will certainly be less of these versions around by next spring as far as the more fashion conscious wearer is concerned . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Leaving this area of the house behind her , she ran down the passage as far as the open pantry door . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | But , many of these , er many of these jobs of course as far as the young people were concerned were dead end jobs . |
| 15 | He did n't have a striped jersey or a bag marked Swag as far as the Old Bill are concerned . ’ |
| 16 | Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway represents a real success story as far as the British preservation movement is concerned . |
| 17 | The evidence for this article was of a particular kind , and the proposal is to apply the same methods to the subsequent period , taking the whole revaluation as far as the First World War . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ulster entries are very thin on the ground as far as the English Derby is concerned . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Apart from my arthritis , I 'm now a new man as far as the old ticker is concerned , ’ he said . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | IT IS still a comparatively rare event for a locomotive to have a book devoted to its entire lifespan but this A4 , 28 page publication certainly fills the bill as far as the 09 class 0-4-4T Calbourne is concerned . |
| 28 | Ms Pollock joined the walk as far as the first embassy ( South Africa ) and delivered a copy of their letter to the embassy . |
| 29 | But this is not the end of the matter as far as the discontented participant is concerned . |
| 30 | 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 . |