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

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1 This as far as we know which is reproduced from the original , was for some sort of a fender .
2 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 ) .
3 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 .
4 ‘ It 's OK as far as I 'm concerned . ’
5 This book , therefore , is good and probably reliable as far as it goes .
6 I 'm afraid as far as I 'm concerned you still look about sixteen .
7 It 's a load of fucking crap to be quite honest as far as I 'm concerned !
8 He squatted down and propped it against a clump of little bushes , pulling up the aerial as far as it would go .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 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 .
11 Russia , Cuba , China , old man Cobbley and all , they were welcome as far as she was concerned .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ That 's fine as far as I am concerned ’ he says .
16 Well he 's off sick as far as I know
17 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 .
18 No cover at all as far as we know . ’
19 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 .
20 He does but they 're not very good as far as we 're concerned .
21 I was interested to read your recent articles on commercial diver training , which were very good as far as they went .
22 Young Charlie — who was always up to no good as far as I could see — nevertheless had what Tata called ‘ a future ’ .
23 Er , so as far as I 'm concerned and I 'm sure as far as you 're concerned , we are battling this together .
24 ‘ 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 .
25 In fact the more mature the better as far as I 'm concerned .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 You heard what the sergeant said , that as far as he 's concerned the whole incident can be dropped . ’
30 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 .
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