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

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1 He is a great advocate of ‘ set aside ’ and as far as the salmon is concerned , this principle would seem to apply to Scotland 's interests .
2 Quite what this means in engineering terms I do n't know , but as far as the knitter is concerned , it means that if you buy the fine gauge lace carriage separately from your machine , the machine and carriage will probably have to be sent away to be tuned .
3 As far as the Lockerbie allegations go , Libya has plainly discharged its obligations under Article 5 by instituting criminal proceedings against its two accused nationals .
4 It could date back as far as the middle of the ninth century and was closely associated with the later castle .
5 But one thing for certain , as far as the tour was concerned , French was not going to be caught with his pants down .
6 If that 's all you 've got for the whole battalion , that 's a success as far as the tour is concerned , ’ he said .
7 In Suleyman 's time he returned to the medrese stream , teaching as far as the Sahn and then becoming kadi successively in Aleppo , Damascus and Istanbul , in retirement from which last post he died in 963/1555–6 .
8 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 .
9 As far as the organisation of their work was concerned , only four said that they spent all their time with the ‘ named ’ child , half worked with other special needs children or undertook general duties and 92 per cent said they also worked with normal children .
10 As far as the organisation of chapters is concerned , there are other oddities .
11 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 .
12 This lesson had been reinforced as far as the railways were concerned each spring from 1918 to 1920 , when urgent orders went out from the highest level to rehabilitate them in order to cope with the influx of vital foodstuffs and fuel to the towns .
13 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
14 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 .
15 As far as the UK is concerned , ’ said Keith Standford of Amada in England , ‘ it 's in dispute which particular model will eventually be on sale here .
16 Our understanding is that , as far as the UK is concerned , generally accepted accounting principles have precedence over statutory requirements . ’
17 A straightforward explanation for this is that inflation affects all voters whereas unemployment tends to be heavily concentrated on ( as far as the UK is concerned ) areas not noted for extensive Conservative support .
18 Recent decisions from Europe give clear rules as far as the union 's concerned and I hope the Labour Party .
19 As far as the building itself is concerned , Hulten has not been able to exert much influence on a project conceived some seven years ago , but he professes to be satisfied with the structure , describing it as ‘ generous ’ .
20 There 's still a difference as far as the parents are concerned .
21 As far as the Parents Charter is concerned , that document is gathering dust in many school cupboards as governors , including some Tory governors , refuse to send it out .
22 As far as the provision of books , materials , tools and other educational facilities are concerned , a good deal of the cost of provision falls on families .
23 He marked in the cabin , the quarry , and the track up as far as the cabin and back down through the dip to the fork .
24 While the Blackpool cars ventured over the ex-Company tracks as far as the Cabin , soon after the Gynn junction was completed , it was not until 1926 that double-deckers reached Bispham .
25 I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat .
26 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 .
27 Windows was the environment of choice — the DOS version works identically as far as the mechanics are concerned , except that pretty Windows graphics are replaced by character based displays .
28 As far as the actors themselves are concerned their mutual relationship is their mutual interactive behaviour .
29 As far as the aristocracy were concerned , it did not lead to fundamental changes in the social structure ; where wealth changed hands , it was generally within the existing dominant class .
30 As far as the Ice Shelf ? ’
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