Example sentences of "far as [pron] know " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ She 's not getting paid one cent as far as we know . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ Not as far as we know . |
5 | ‘ He does have Paula with him as far as we know , ’ Monica reminded him . |
6 | With Paula Grey , so far as we know . |
7 | The first mention of Christmas Day , as far as we know , was in the Roman calendar for the year 354 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ As far as we know they 've no reason to expect us anywhere , ’ the Leader said , but no-one believed that . |
12 | ‘ No , you can talk quite freely — there 's no phone tapping these days as far as we know ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | He was known to be a political activist , but as far as we know had no record of violence . |
16 | In yet others an answer has never , as far as we know , previously been sought . |
17 | As far as we know , the first practical application was for the American piston-powered Shelduck target . |
18 | But nothing was done as far as we know . |
19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | The temple at Knossos was , so far as we know , the most ambitious building the Minoans attempted . |
23 | 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 ) . |
24 | 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 . ’ |
25 | Troops who fought for pay were little discussed in the sources ; but Henry I 's insurance policy in the treaty of 1101 — not invoked , as far as we know — cost £500 sterling a year . |
26 | So far as we know , Ptolemy spent his whole life in Alexandria , which is well north of the Earth 's equator , so that he could not see the stars of the far south . |
27 | True he was not , so far as we know , misogynist : there is evidence to the contrary . |
28 | He did not , so far as we know , see the necessity for structural change to remedy the oppression that women were under . |
29 | He was the first person , so far as we know , to record the fact that the tentacles of the common sundew are capable of movement . |
30 | Furthermore , if hood could belong to the set , there seems to be no reason why good should not also have belonged to it ; yet , as far as we know , it never did . |