Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] far as [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now .
2 Footnotes in plenty have been added to Dodd , but his pattern remains a fair summary of the early preaching so far as we can reconstruct it .
3 This as far as we know which is reproduced from the original , was for some sort of a fender .
4 You can see that by adding more detail to the eyes , feet and feathers as well as shading you can carry this as far as you wish to go ( Figure 1 ) .
5 This has never had it so this as far as I 'm concerned really , the only thing that is needs to be made clear , is that we must accept of principle that 's all we need to reason .
6 ‘ It 's OK as far as I 'm concerned . ’
7 This book , therefore , is good and probably reliable as far as it goes .
8 I 'm afraid as far as I 'm concerned you still look about sixteen .
9 It 's a load of fucking crap to be quite honest as far as I 'm concerned !
10 This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go .
11 Then , holding everything else constant so far as we can , we form a judgement about what will most probably happen .
12 He squatted down and propped it against a clump of little bushes , pulling up the aerial as far as it would go .
13 ‘ The brief as far as I was concerned was not to imitate a dancehall record , not to try and pretend it came from Gussie 's Music Works or it was a Firehouse Crew production or something .
14 I understand that the Government 's policy is to target pensioners and , as I said , the increase in premiums is welcome as far as it goes .
15 Russia , Cuba , China , old man Cobbley and all , they were welcome as far as she was concerned .
16 The third part is perhaps something that erm , we find a little more difficult , I do found that er number two , number three and number four if you were n't careful blends very much into one another and actually then part three as far as I 'm concerned actually putting across the benefits is really the main part I think and that really is putting into everyday English what we know as professionals as in technical terms , cos if you go and talk to somebody whatever it is , they have n't got a clue we have , we talk about it all the time and I think the biggest criticism of the insurance industry as a whole is the fact that you do n't talk to people in English and that 's why it 's got such a foot in the door and I think the third part for me really is the most important part of the sales process , relating our cock-ups in English , the benefits the client .
17 But i I did feel it was airing those possible scenarios to get a reaction and I think the forty minutes we 've had discussing that have been extremely valuable as far as we 're concerned .
18 Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment .
19 ‘ That 's fine as far as I am concerned ’ he says .
20 Well he 's off sick as far as I know
21 Then came the snow and she had to stay in and watch from the window how it piled up against the water butt , how it lay like a blanket along the sills , how it changed the distance from bluey brown to white as far as you could see .
22 No cover at all as far as we know . ’
23 Vague information was worse than none at all as far as we were concerned , as we were obliged to do something about it , however hopeless it might seem .
24 He does but they 're not very good as far as we 're concerned .
25 I was interested to read your recent articles on commercial diver training , which were very good as far as they went .
26 Young Charlie — who was always up to no good as far as I could see — nevertheless had what Tata called ‘ a future ’ .
27 Er , so as far as I 'm concerned and I 'm sure as far as you 're concerned , we are battling this together .
28 ‘ 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 .
29 In fact the more mature the better as far as I 'm concerned .
30 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 .
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