Example sentences of "far as [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we were to try something which , as far as we knew , had n't been offered to the viewers before . |
| 2 | The hearing began on 29 June at which time , so far as we knew , W. 's condition was stable or deteriorating only slowly , although there had been some further loss of weight . |
| 3 | Our captivity had never been linked to theirs , as far as we knew . |
| 4 | As far as we knew , Frank had never been claimed and , having been quite cut off in Lebanon for a number of years before his kidnap , had less ‘ publicity ’ value than the other Yanks . |
| 5 | As far as we knew , the only block to Britain 's continued improvement in relations with Iran had been the Rushdie affair . |
| 6 | As far as we knew every previous expedition had ferried the sheep by dinghy , a tedious operation which must have been hard on both men and sheep , to say nothing of the dinghy . |
| 7 | As far as we went last night ? |
| 8 | On the left , the attitude of Moscow and the Third International , in so far as they had any influence at all in Spain before the war , was to encourage Popular Front democracy and discourage revolution . |
| 9 | The kink in the Primarch 's gene-seed might indeed confer will power in regard to enduring pain , even a fascination with torment — how else could any of the cadets have progressed any distance at all , let alone as far as they had proceeded ? — yet plainly there were limits , which this tunnel — so bland in its appearance , so hideous in its effect — seemed designed to test to snapping point . |
| 10 | Whatever the law might hold , no one could argue that the methods used by Esmail and Everington amounted to fraud , in so far as they had neither the intention nor the potential to gain an advantage . |
| 11 | By the second year there was considerable disappointment that they had not developed the purchasing role as far as they had hoped . |
| 12 | In their view this had hopelessly inhibited the quest for the causes of crime in the case of classical criminology , and diverted attention away from social defence in the case of the neoclassicists ( since the latter were only interested in ‘ determinants ’ of crime in so far as they reduced the offender 's responsibility ) . |
| 13 | He was far less concerned with the ‘ facts ’ , with the accuracy or applicability of substantive knowledge — these things were important in so far as they indicated the perspective which lay behind them . |
| 14 | For example , in 1967 the Monopolies Commission investigated the general effect on the public interest of certain restrictive practices so far as they prevailed in relation to the supply of professional services . |
| 15 | Except in so far as they publicized opinion poll findings , television projections of party credibility did not dictate public perceptions . |
| 16 | Treaty in so far as they applied to all owners , charterers , managers and operators of British fishing vessels and to 75 per cent . |
| 17 | I was interested to read your recent articles on commercial diver training , which were very good as far as they went . |
| 18 | The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went . |
| 19 | In so far as they purchased stocks for their clients , that was , if an important redirection of resources , hardly an immediate switch between sectors . |
| 20 | Statutory advisers from the conservation bodies all gave us a list of the areas that they wanted included and , for the most part , we followed those lists in so far as they agreed with one another . |
| 21 | In so far as they secured a satisfactory response then they succeeded in lifting their own fiscal crisis up to the central level of the state . |
| 22 | As we shall see in the next chapter , the conference on the third day passed a resolution , which led to the formation of the BDDA , but on the preceding days it was concerned with the Report of the Royal Commission and its recommendations in so far as they affected deaf and dumb people . |
| 23 | In as far as they existed at all , relations with these countries were conducted as between tributaries of the Chinese empire . |
| 24 | By the early seventeenth century , therefore , foreign offices , in so far as they existed , were still for the most part embryonic . |
| 25 | All cities , in so far as they became modern cities in the last decades of the nineteenth century , underwent the following changes in the organization of public space : ( 1 ) The development of separate commercial districts . |
| 26 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 27 | As far as they knew , these 570 people were off to a temperance rally at Loughborough ; most of them were probably unaware that they were taking part in an historical journey — Thomas Cook 's first excursion in 1841 . |
| 28 | Now , so far as they knew , both children were dead . |
| 29 | It was difficult for them to appreciate that [ h ] -loss could ever have been anything else but a stigmatized form : in so far as they knew of evidence for it in earlier centuries , they tended to dismiss it , seemingly in the belief that ‘ vulgar ’ and ‘ careless ’ usage is not implicated in linguistic change . |
| 30 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |