Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] far [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You are innocent as far as Her Majesty 's Government is concerned . |
| 32 | Er , so as far as I 'm concerned and I 'm sure as far as you 're concerned , we are battling this together . |
| 33 | ‘ She 's in the cottage hospital , still unconscious as far as I know — I 've left one of my boys there in case she comes to , but she 's running a high temperature and they 're afraid of bronchial pneumonia . |
| 34 | In fact the more mature the better as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 35 | Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned , er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned , you did n't have any what we would call official tea breaks , you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to drink this , er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody , then you were more or less bagged on the spot . |
| 36 | It was interesting , I thought , that as far as they were able in their maybe four-foot-wide stalls , most of them were standing diagonally across the space , the better to deal with the motion ; and they all looked alert and interested , sure signs of contentment . |
| 37 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 38 | You heard what the sergeant said , that as far as he 's concerned the whole incident can be dropped . ’ |
| 39 | Since it is admitted , or rather insisted , that as far as you are concerned there could be no difference between the hypothesis that you are currently sitting reading and the hypothesis that you are a brain in a vat being fed the experiences of one sitting reading , then it can not matter to you which is really true and which is false . |
| 40 | When the union representative Alex Ross was asked by a Royal Commission whether he would " ask a woman to lock up a form ( sic ) " , he replied spontaneously , " Oh yes , they can do that as far as I understand " . |
| 41 | Erm mind you it was really a step onto something else that as far as I was concerned in those days I meant o go to sea of course and er that was the best place you could have er to serve an apprenticeship because everything er I mean it was one of the As everything was starting to get specialized in in other works nowadays it 's gone completely now . |
| 42 | Trevor Nicholas , head of Barclay 's computer operations , says that the bank has been the victim of attempts to move funds to accounts in other parts of the world , but that as far as it knows , they have been thwarted . |
| 43 | It is at this stage that the contract is carefully examined , perhaps for the first time , and the company obtaining the software realizes , too late , that as far as it is concerned , the contract is little more than worthless and does not provide adequately for the situation . |
| 44 | Erm , but my Lord er I think the difficulty is that as far as my learned friend is concerned er he takes the view and it 's probably better for him to develop this your Lordship , that the matters can not properly be separated and he wishes your Lordship to deal with them in total so that er the whole picture can be seen at liability stage . |
| 45 | 6 As far as I can see the saxophone was invented later than the clarinet . |
| 46 | But it 's got nothing to do with being a Nazi as far as I 'm concerned … |
| 47 | Well that was of the interesting things to come out of the study , erm something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 48 | Well that was one of the interesting things to come out of the study , something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 49 | The kink in the Primarch 's gene-seed might indeed confer will power in regard to enduring pain , even a fascination with torment — how else could any of the cadets have progressed any distance at all , let alone as far as they had proceeded ? — yet plainly there were limits , which this tunnel — so bland in its appearance , so hideous in its effect — seemed designed to test to snapping point . |
| 50 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 51 | Mr Williams , a former Wirral councillor said : ‘ The college has been highly successful so far and we have a strong and supportive new governing body to cope with the much increased responsibilities that come with independence . ’ |
| 52 | I 've got five so far and I 've been getting into good positions . ’ |
| 53 | He added : ‘ The facts will be accurate as far as they go . |
| 54 | Now , bearing in mind the very short space of time between now and the close of the enquiry , I want to be sure that as far as objectors and the council are concerned , that this is a course of action which is both acceptable and practical as far as they are concerned . |
| 55 | Until very recently this was not because they were inherently unprofitable : many small societies proportionately held their own very well until the early 1990s as far as their capital strength and profitability were concerned . |
| 56 | Cos I have n't said that my MP can have a pay rise , and as I vote for my M P , and you vote for your M P , they have to ask us first as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 57 | I prefer to apply the principle that a promise intended to be binding , intended to be acted on and in fact acted on , is binding so far as its terms properly apply . |
| 58 | Brushes with the law : Pretty clean so far but what was in the ciggy in that old News of The Screws photo ? |
| 59 | She expected no favours from Ace , and he would be the last to give her any as far as her job was concerned . |
| 60 | And they had fostered a girl because they could n't have any children of their own as far as I know and and , ah they she 's a com , a complete horror ! |