Example sentences of "[adj] as far [subord] the " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Symons was , as a matter of fact , a frequent visitor to this house before the war ; indeed , she was among the most popular as far as the staff were concerned due to the kind appreciation she never shied from showing .
2 But I imagine this often happens — people are for all practical purposes sane as far as the analyst 's door and become mad as they stretch themselves out and explain their sanity .
3 Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out .
4 It was this very situation — one where the workers themselves could take control of the struggle , organise and demand on their own behalf — which was not acceptable as far as the trade union bureaucracy and leadership were concerned .
5 On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) .
6 The UK solution to the need for a continuous and systematic comparison of the two is to keep them separate as far as the double-entry is concerned but to report them side-by-side .
7 Therefore , a work may be easy in one respect and hard in others ; for example , Silkin 's short poem ‘ The Worm ’ is straightforward as far as the vocabulary and sentence structure are concerned but , even so , the meaning of the poem is by no means transparent .
8 We were lucky in finding something to drink but unfortunate as far as the crumpet was concerned .
9 The former won , which was all to the good as far as the SAS was concerned .
10 After the route closed , the track remained intact as far as the depot , which still stored surplus seasonal cars .
11 That 's right as far as the arm is concerned we 've got to be cautious , there .
12 This was particularly evident as far as the young were concerned .
13 ‘ Allowing for the recovery period is also important as far as the next cooking cycle is concerned .
14 But we got some of that pressure off right away , and I think it proved very important as far as the way the tournament went from then on .
15 Although these matters may not be particularly important as far as the haematological features are concerned , they certainly are with respect to ventilation .
16 Correct measurement of doors and windows is particularly important as far as the moving of furniture is concerned .
17 The thesis of ‘ The intentional fallacy ’ , that the meaning of the words in a text is , and should be treated as , a matter of public knowledge , seems wholly unexceptionable as far as the dictionary-definition ( the ‘ denotation ’ ) of words is concerned ; but it seems much more problematic when one takes account of the broader associations that words carry with them ( ‘ connotations ’ ) .
18 It 's difficult as far as the alternatives are concerned , is that no alternatives , but effectively it 's about four times the cost to administer , because you can dip a hundred sheep off one of the er , packs and it 's a smaller pack .
19 Erm we 've had a , a major accident in nineteen fifty er ninety fifty seven , one of the Winscale small reactors at Winscale caught fire er the Americans had an accident at Three Mile Island which erm w was catastrophic as far as the reactor was concerned , but the safety devices prevented any radioactivity escaping the Russians have had their Three Mile I er their erm Chernobyl accident which was catastrophic .
20 In fact , I consider this vital as far as the therapeutic value of the treatment is concerned .
21 Will these families be more symmetrical as far as the allocation of unpaid work is concerned ?
22 The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit , a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain .
23 That which once was unacceptable as far as the old Jewish food laws were concerned , can now be accepted .
24 Treatment is necessary as far as the advance of medical and psychological knowledge permits .
25 I should say that the current ethos of most departments is relatively left-wing as far as the teaching staff are concerned , but that many of the students hold views considerably further to the right .
26 However , as her husband so rightly pointed out , they were going to have to be up-beat and positive as far as the twins were concerned .
27 The first few days in Bavant were fairly quiet as far as the enemy activity was concerned , with a few mortar bombs coming over from time to time .
28 Mr Mullins said Raybestos ' record was ‘ excellent as far as the County Council is concerned ’ .
29 The general social and political advantages of the newly enlarged audiences were obvious but in cultural terms what was really significant as far as the subsequent history of the movies was concerned was that the showmen who made and presented the movies were no longer thinking in terms of a homogeneous or class audience .
30 This question is almost obsolete as far as the classroom is concerned , since almost all programmes are made in colour and you are likely to lose impact and sometimes visual information by viewing them in black and white .
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