Example sentences of "far as we [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Just in so far as we cause the Government to persecute those who believe in peace , so we may be doing the greatest service … to stimulate the national consciousness in [ the ] direction [ of peace ] . ’
2 Now we were to try something which , as far as we knew , had n't been offered to the viewers before .
3 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 .
4 Our captivity had never been linked to theirs , as far as we knew .
5 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 .
6 As far as we knew , the only block to Britain 's continued improvement in relations with Iran had been the Rushdie affair .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 which we can be sure , or think we can be sure , of biological connection is always very narrow ; but sociological kinship , which depends only on our willingness to slot individuals into particular verbal categories , can be extended as far as we like , or rather as far as local convention requires , and that may be thousands of miles and include many thousands of individuals .
10 As far as we went last night ?
11 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 .
12 ‘ She 's not getting paid one cent as far as we know .
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 ‘ Not as far as we know .
15 ‘ He does have Paula with him as far as we know , ’ Monica reminded him .
16 With Paula Grey , so far as we know .
17 The first mention of Christmas Day , as far as we know , was in the Roman calendar for the year 354 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 ‘ As far as we know they 've no reason to expect us anywhere , ’ the Leader said , but no-one believed that .
22 ‘ No , you can talk quite freely — there 's no phone tapping these days as far as we know
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 He was known to be a political activist , but as far as we know had no record of violence .
26 In yet others an answer has never , as far as we know , previously been sought .
27 As far as we know , the first practical application was for the American piston-powered Shelduck target .
28 But nothing was done as far as we know .
29 ‘ 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 . ’
30 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 .
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