Example sentences of "[that] as far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a level voice he said , ‘ You gave me to understand that as far as you know there was no woman at the time but your mother . |
| 2 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 3 | Lloyd claimed the last half hour , but when he was out at 233 for 4 he indicated that as far as he was concerned that was that . |
| 4 | The next day , I countered with a speech arguing that as far as the health service was concerned the issue had been settled and that the Government 's policy was to continue to make the service as effective as possible . |
| 5 | There is a powerful argument that as far as sexual behaviour is concerned , an area in which consent makes the difference between gross violation and shared pleasure , and in which physical proximity makes it relatively easy to ask about consent , the law should in effect impose a duty to enquire . |
| 6 | We are , therefore , anxious that he should not be thrown away in some other role and I hope that any plan he has made will be carefully examined so as to ensure that as far as possible he does not do something foolhardy . |
| 7 | This point concerns slaughter , which has been mentioned already ; however , I would just mention that as far as religious slaughter is concerned , recent research makes it absolutely clear that animals which are killed by cutting their throats can go for between 15 and 120 seconds able to detect what is going on around them . |
| 8 | So many different factors may be relevant that no generalized conclusions can be reached , and the best that librarians can do is to ensure that as far as possible conditions for use in their own libraries are adapted to meet what research has revealed as ideal conditions . |
| 9 | The aim is to ensure not only that all important titles are held in stock , but also that as far as possible there is on the shelves at any one time a reasonable coverage of material in all subject fields . |
| 10 | Laws exist which ensure that as far as possible , accidents , fire , infection and pollution are prevented . |
| 11 | Melia suggests that as far as strictly medical treatment is concerned , it would be prudent to leave doctor 's business to doctors ! |
| 12 | In general , it was apparent that as far as possible different regions of the country ( with the exception of East Anglia and the South West ) were to gain at least one designation . |
| 13 | The recommendations of this committee included a suggestion that UDCs should make greater efforts to assist local residents ; that local skills should be enhanced ; that industrial uses should be retained where possible ; and that as far as possible jobs would be directed to local residents . |
| 14 | Remember that as far as possible you should make your living arrangements prior to your arrival at the University , whether in on-campus or off-campus accommodation . |
| 15 | I would like to record that they tried to cheer each other up in their double misery , but I 'm afraid the truth is that as far as I know they never spoke to each other again . |
| 16 | There is nothing he can tell you beyond what I already have — that as far as we are concerned my mother has been dead for more than twenty years . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He 's just phoned from the car to say that as far as he could tell Harry had nothing to do with it . |
| 18 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 19 | Now , you may think that as far as chorus , delay , flanging etc. is concerned , guitarists could probably write the book , being arguably the most effects-hungry musos on the planet , but when it comes to a studio environment do you know how much delay to add to a vocal part to make it sound really brill ? |
| 20 | MAKING money is all about timing and I reckon that as far as mortgage rates are concerned we are within a whisker of hitting the bottom . |
| 21 | He said , ‘ I 'd talked so much to Nigel about his thoughts on so many things that as far as I 'm concerned he was with us all the way through . |
| 22 | My rather innocent trust crumbled when I realized that as far as the police were concerned , I was little better than a criminal on whom they must keep tabs . |
| 23 | My daughter says that as far as she 's concerned he no longer exists . |
| 24 | I have elsewhere tried to show ( Dignan , 1983 ) that as far as the peace-tax issue itself is concerned the principle of equal concern and respect does generate a right to divert an appropriate amount of income tax from military to peaceful expenditure . |
| 25 | Separate day and night attendants for the lunatics were to be engaged as required , and the master was told that as far as possible fresh water should be provided for bathing each casual . |
| 26 | It is certainly true that Marx speaks of single practices as central to societies ( as in the passage quoted earlier ) and Althusser may well believe that as far as exegesis is concerned no more need be said . |
| 27 | Bell Labs notes that fault tolerance is common in hardware and in operating systems , but generally too costly for many software systems , and says that as far as it knows , these are the first general-purpose software modules , and they set a trend toward low-cost fault-tolerance in user-level software . |
| 28 | Although , he confesses , he can not provide ‘ money saving ideas , ’ he firmly believes that as far as mid-range systems go , Unix functionality is now on a par with proprietary systems , reflected in reduced proprietary pricing , and that substitution , rather than wholesale replacement , is the key to open systems . |
| 29 | ‘ To a wealthy or aristocratic criminal the vengeance of the law is as a flea , which merely tickles ’ , observed Reynolds 's Newspaper which thought that as far as the Garotter 's Act went ‘ only poor , plebeian criminals will be exposed … rich and aristocratic ruffians … are certain to be exempted from flogging ’ . |
| 30 | I replied that as far as I was concerned his terms and conditions of employment were best used as a rectal implant preferably without benefit of anaesthetic , which roused him to suggest that perhaps the whole matter would best be served by being turned over to the florid authority of Her Majesty 's Judiciary , via PC Plod , or at the very least to some banal tribunal vested with the right to dilly-dally over contretemps between master and servant . |