Example sentences of "as far as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As far as we are concerned , if nurses are in conflict with their employer - and they are the least-able section of our society to fight — it is incumbent upon workers to take a stand to support nurses and other workers . ’ |
| 2 | A further defence came from Tony Swift , chairman of the International Federation rules committee : ‘ We do n't think of it as a woman up there — as far as we are concerned it is a person , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ As far as we are aware there were no fish in distress when we returned to work on the Thursday morning and the canal was refilled with two feet of water . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ As far as we are concerned the incident is now forgotten . ’ |
| 5 | It was the end of cabaret as far as we were concerned . |
| 6 | We in the Royal Air Force , if you ask for our professional advice , are convinced that we will require manned aircraft as far as we can see to supplement the missile in both the offensive and defensive roles . |
| 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 | Dress code : Adidas tracksuits and shells ( fat laces , of course ) Kangols and Westwood Buffalo hats ( which were quite silly enough the first time round as far as we 're concerned ) . |
| 9 | As far as we are concerned it is exactly the same thing , ’ says Mike Stock . |
| 10 | But as far as we are concerned it is not about money , it is about thanking the fans . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's not getting paid one cent as far as we know . |
| 12 | I took the dinghy as far as we could go , right up near to the lock gates . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Empire might have become the Commonwealth , but that was just a new name for the same thing as far as we were concerned . |
| 15 | An executive said : ‘ We 're trying as far as we can to ensure that our business operates normally . |
| 16 | The syllabus includes the ‘ core ’ of chemistry drawn up by the Standing Conference on University Entrance in 1983 , and as far as we can tell is also likely to include the new chemistry core under construction by the School Examination and Assessment Council . |
| 17 | If time permits , we would be happy to accommodate you as far as we can . |
| 18 | ‘ Not as far as we know . |
| 19 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
| 20 | As far as we can tell , no work has yet been done on the psychology of the train-spotter . |
| 21 | He 'd be talking to some man all evening , they 'd be getting on very well indeed as far as we could all see , but then Miss P would still be there alone when the lights went on , and the man would have gone . |
| 22 | The Bar was , as far as we were concerned , the only place to go . |
| 23 | ‘ He does have Paula with him as far as we know , ’ Monica reminded him . |
| 24 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |
| 25 | The Smiths are definitely a no-go area as far as we are concerned in the future . ’ |
| 26 | The first mention of Christmas Day , as far as we know , was in the Roman calendar for the year 354 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Because as far as we could see , |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The night skies were star-filled and clear , the only snag as far as we were concerned being the dawn mist which appeared as the sky lightened and the squadron started to return , making visibility difficult to judge , both for us and the aircraft trying to land . |