Example sentences of "but [adv] far as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But so far as I know they have never been reprinted , and I have let slip from my memory now the name of the author ( a salutary warning against undue pride for those of us writing today ) . |
| 2 | Lithium batteries are even better , but so far as I know are only available in PP3 size . |
| 3 | I am open to contradiction , but so far as I understand , the Association as such , played no direct part either in the recent increases in apprentices ' salaries , which were reviewed automatically , nor in the revival of their indenture , which is the result of a tortuous and painfully slow consideration by the Law Society . |
| 4 | Of course it 's only a rummage-search , but as far as we 've gone , there 's nothing in that boat at all that has n't a right to be there . ’ |
| 5 | He was known to be a political activist , but as far as we know had no record of violence . |
| 6 | ‘ But as far as we know , she is still mechanically fine and she has still got some running life which is why she will be touring the preserved railways . ’ |
| 7 | always say this because , you know , developments happen all the time , but as far as we know , genes are handed on as complete discrete enti entities , in units is what discovered . |
| 8 | ‘ The test has shown positive , but as far as we know at the moment it could have come from many different sources . ’ |
| 9 | Our efforts to meet the company have so far been unsuccessful , but as far as we understand from the AEU ( which has a single union agreement with Montupet ) , there are no special mechanisms to target recruitment and training on the unemployed and it is worth bearing in mind that the code of practice of the new Fair Employment Act puts the idea of the merit principle above that of equality of outcome or the achievement of social justice . |
| 10 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 11 | I only saw it open a few times but as far as I remember there were a couple of old ledgers and a stack of pocket files . ’ |
| 12 | But as far as I knew , he had no other friends in Salamanca , though he had only to lift his little finger and both men and women would have come running at his bidding . |
| 13 | I was weak , highly emotional , but as far as I knew , well . |
| 14 | I mean I 'm no historian , you 'd have to check up on this with my hubby , but as far as I know the Reformation started up North in Europe a guid lang mile away from Rome and the Pope and that , up in the Region of what we now know as Holland , and Germany and Alsace Lorraine . |
| 15 | He went back to Nuremberg in 1946 to testify , but as far as I know that 's the only time he ever left the country . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm sure he wo n't mind me mentioning the fact , but as far as I know Graham Marsden is still waiting for that elusive ’ two ’ , not that he has n't had his share of big roach , it 's just that the needle of his scales apparently aggravatingly always sticks at around 1lb 15oz ! |
| 17 | Similar challenges have been organised previously in London , Canterbury etc but as far as I know this one is a ‘ first ’ for Edinburgh . |
| 18 | And it covers everything but as far as I know , and I 'm willing to be corrected |
| 19 | Occasionally she would receive a postcard , coloured views usually of London with nondescript , meaningless messages , but as far as he knew she never replied . |
| 20 | No , he had n't but as far as he knew there was no music on there still . |