Example sentences of "far as [pers pn] know " 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 know , the ancients intended their metalwork , both artistic and utilitarian , to be kept in a brightly polished metallic state , with the possible exception of special alloys such as Corinthian bronze . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's not getting paid one cent as far as we know . |
| 9 | Yet as far as we know , these pinpricks to the memory that she was queen of Scots did not seriously upset her ready assumption that her mother would do the job for her . |
| 10 | ‘ Not as far as we know . |
| 11 | ‘ He does have Paula with him as far as we know , ’ Monica reminded him . |
| 12 | With Paula Grey , so far as we know . |
| 13 | The first mention of Christmas Day , as far as we know , was in the Roman calendar for the year 354 . |
| 14 | As far as we know the microcomputer-based emergency response system devised by Belardo et al. ( 1983 ) , is the only GIS-like software to incorporate this algorithm . |
| 15 | As far as we know , they all used two or three microphones spaced some yards apart along the front of the orchestra , a technique favoured by American engineers to this day . |
| 16 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 17 | ‘ As far as we know they 've no reason to expect us anywhere , ’ the Leader said , but no-one believed that . |
| 18 | ‘ No , you can talk quite freely — there 's no phone tapping these days as far as we know ’ |
| 19 | It is interesting to note that there have , so far as we know , only been thirty-one phyla in all of pre-history ; nine have become totally extinct . |
| 20 | In addition to the writers and the ‘ business group ’ , many others will be beavering away in the background , preparing costumes and scenery ready for this ( as far as we know ) unique ecumenical presentation of the Gospel message . |
| 21 | He was known to be a political activist , but as far as we know had no record of violence . |
| 22 | In yet others an answer has never , as far as we know , previously been sought . |
| 23 | As far as we know , the first practical application was for the American piston-powered Shelduck target . |
| 24 | But nothing was done as far as we know . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | So far as we know they had met only in 1079 , when Eadmer was one of the young monks to whom Anselm talked during his first visit to Canterbury . |
| 27 | A favourite plant in the frescoes is the papyrus , treated in various decorative ways : but the papyrus did not , as far as we know , grow in Crete in the Minoan period , so the frescoes do not factually depict the Cretan landscape . |
| 28 | The temple at Knossos was , so far as we know , the most ambitious building the Minoans attempted . |
| 29 | She was referred to in the temple archives at Knossos , although as far as we know her nearest sanctuary was the Cave of Eileithyia at Amnisos ( Figure 16 ) . |
| 30 | At the end of the last war he found himself some French creature and went to live with her , and so far as we know , he 's still in France . ’ |