Example sentences of "[adv] as far " in BNC.
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| 1 | In certain species , the long , fine roots trail below as far as the muddy or sandy bottom and anchor the plant , still giving it ample freedom for floating . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Industrial Action and we 're only three days back in January before the Prelims , so as far as I can see that is St Agnes 's Eve out the window . |
| 4 | However , the USA have never ratified the Warsaw Convention so as far as air carrier liability is concerned within the USA the sky is the limit and any party whose negligence can be proved is liable . |
| 5 | And that 's what you 're getting here so as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 6 | So as far back as 1974 it was spelt out by the industry itself . |
| 7 | This is clearly so as far as deixis is concerned . |
| 8 | So as far as I know there are no plans . |
| 9 | Er , so as far as I 'm concerned and I 'm sure as far as you 're concerned , we are battling this together . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's never ever mentioned that night to me since , so as far as he 's aware , ’ he rapped cuttingly , ‘ I could think you were nothing more than an easy one-nighter for him ! ’ |
| 11 | Er it means generally that I 'm coming home quite late , so as far as a daily paper 's concerned , I 'm really not very much interested . |
| 12 | From that experience , he derived an ideal of stage unity stemming from a close collaboration ‘ regardless as far as possible of individual prestige and personality ’ , which was reinforced by working in the Group Theatre of the thirties with Auden , Isherwood , Spender , Britten and others . |
| 13 | Where the ice-age glaciers affected the Atlantic coast — only as far south as northern New Jersey — there are cliffs , headlands and sandy coves , as in Europe . |
| 14 | Then he strode away — but only as far as the corner of the hearing room , temporarily out of range of the television cameras . |
| 15 | ‘ Only as far as they know she had n't seen a doctor . ’ |
| 16 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 17 | Detective Inspector Anderson , who was in charge of the case , rushed his men to the house only to find the bird had flown , luckily for him only as far as Caversham . |
| 18 | The French government acceded to her request that she be buried at Malmaison , but her son was permitted to accompany the funeral only as far as the frontier between France and Switzerland . |
| 19 | As he told the story , probably with some exaggeration , Evelyn is supposed quite often to have gone out , perhaps only as far as his aunt 's house nearby to borrow some sugar , and to have failed to return . |
| 20 | ‘ No , sir , only as far as the actual competition , which they organize . |
| 21 | From the kick-off , Bordon forced a corner which was cleared only as far as Duffin who volleyed in from 15 yards . |
| 22 | In 1905 the Lytham Company , whose blue cars operated into Blackpool only as far as South Shore Station , threatened legal action unless Blackpool Corporation allowed them to operate further into town . |
| 23 | Whilst most modern witch covens can be traced back only as far as the revival stimulated by Gerald Gardner and the repeal of the Witchcraft Acts in the 1950s , there still exist traditional covens which date back much further . |
| 24 | Now , seeing as my own computer literacy extends only as far as Super Mario Bros , I 'm left feeling a little bewildered by it all . |
| 25 | The direct influence of the LLP extended only as far as the metropolitan boundary at Bethnal Green ; the West Ham Labour Party was autonomous . |
| 26 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 27 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 28 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
| 29 | There is one poem in which the I dominates to a remarkable extent and which , since it has been read literally , might seem an exception to my argument , namely 62 : If one reads only as far as this point , or reads the rest of the poem inattentively , one might indeed take this as an attack by the poet on his own narcissism . |
| 30 | Bull said it still continues to be part of ACE Consortium , but only as far as desktop Intel-based systems are concerned : it refused to be drawn over the question of whether its relationship with IBM would result in it favouring OS/2 over Windows 3 , saying only that ‘ Windows is what our customers are buying today ’ . |