Example sentences of "far as i [vb base] " in BNC.
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1 | But a speck of dirt never hurt anybody , as far as I 've learnt . |
2 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
3 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
4 | ‘ Far as I know , yes . |
5 | The dog is long since gone , though not , so far as I know , as a result of its encounter with the toad . |
6 | What no one , as far as I know , has ever done is to show whether there is any space , weight , efficiency or cost saving that results from assembling all the windings onto one core . |
7 | ‘ As far as I know , no Vietnamese have been captured since 26 September , ’ said Marine Colonel Chumphon Chotiyothin . |
8 | So far as I know , one cause of a general fall in the value of money is not open to dispute , either as theoretically possible or as practically instanced within our own experience : that is the monetisation of debt , in other words , the process whereby part of the expenditure of public authorities is financed by the creation of additional spending power . |
9 | So far as I know , no one has denied that inflation can be , and in fact often within our experience is , caused by the Government financing part of its expenditure by the creation of additional spending power which it then exerts . |
10 | I realise that no series chosen to test this proposition can be free from some criticism or objection ; but this fact is less serious when no such series has , so far as I know , been constructed which fulfils the condition of a uniquely unfavourable pattern for murder . |
11 | It is a view which , by contrast with that of Morgan and Engels , is , as far as I know , totally abandoned . |
12 | Still , he was a bachelor and he 'd no staff as far as I know . ’ |
13 | Both claims , so far as I know , are true . |
14 | ‘ Not as far as I know , my dear . |
15 | He 's still alive , far as I know . ’ |
16 | It was of course simple mischance that this rat-tat should happen , even though the kiosk is not so far as I know a particularly busy one . |
17 | ‘ Not as far as I know . |
18 | Interestingly enough , that 's the only book as far as I know which veers from history . |
19 | I prescribed Nit Ac LM2 and as far as I know she remains well . |
20 | As far as I know they are the original studs , measuring 23mm across . |
21 | ‘ Not as far as I know . |
22 | ‘ Not as far as I know . |
23 | I 'm not yet totally convinced by the US research on the chemical nature of this liquid but ( as far as I know ) no-one on this side of the Atlantic has tried to analyse it . |
24 | As far as I know , he never returned . |
25 | ‘ If the PA wo n't pay for lessons from old auntie , they 're not likely to fork out what Biddy would charge — even if she teaches , which she does n't , as far as I know . ’ |
26 | There is not , as far as I know , any monument to Abraham Darby I anywhere in Britain , although all our lives have been affected by his revolutionary discovery . |
27 | So far as I know there is no definition of what constitutes a Cabinet Committee and , as the practice has grown , I believe there may be among the 70-odd Committees in the book some with less title to be treated as Cabinet Committees than some of the 700-odd interdepartmental committees of which we have no detailed information at all . |
28 | As far as I know computers have not yet been brought to bear on the Synoptic Problem which has been tossed around for a century . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |