Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] far as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 2 | When the affected characters get to the east wall ( or as far as they can go in that direction if other characters stop them ) , they are attacked . |
| 3 | It was hard going , but as readers of her undoubtedly interesting although immensely tendentious book will discover , some progress was made , although so far as I was concerned with astonishing fluctuations in my popularity . |
| 4 | I think that so far as we 've got . |
| 5 | It seemed that so far as they were concerned Meehan , guilty or innocent , could stay in Peterhead for ever . |
| 6 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 7 | I do not complain about that so far as he is concerned because no doubt it would be an additional and unnecessary expense for him . |
| 8 | In Goldring 's case , the customer had done something clearly conveying to the finance company that he did not own the van and that so far as he was concerned the seller ( the trader ) had every right to sell it . |
| 9 | I will tell you plainly that so far as I am concerned that objective is the promotion of books … . ’ |
| 10 | Luke 's no fool ; he could see that so far as I was concerned Elise was more than just a client . |
| 11 | Robbie drew breath to vindicate herself , to tell him that she had not been unfaithful , that so far as she was concerned Hugh had ceased to exist . |
| 12 | You say that so far as you 're concerned , it 's all right for children to learn if in fact they 're enjoying it and if in fact they want to and they 're not being coerced . |
| 13 | You say that so far as you 're concerned , it 's all right for children to learn if in fact they 're enjoying it and if in fact they want to and they 're not being coerced . |
| 14 | ( b ) the buyer will enjoy quiet possession of the goods except so far as it may be disturbed by the owner or other person entitled to the benefit of any charge or encumbrance so disclosed or known . ’ |
| 15 | ( 4 ) A covenant by the lessee for the repair of the premises is of no effect so far as it relates to the matters mentioned in subsection ( l ) ( a ) to ( c ) , except so far as it imposes on the lessee any of the requirements mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) ( a ) or ( c ) . |
| 16 | This phenomenon can also be seen in trading stamp transactions so that s4(1) of the Trading Stamps Act 1964 ( substituted by s16(1) of SOGIT 1973 ) provides : In every redemption of trading stamps for goods , notwithstanding any term to the contrary on which the redemption is made , there is — ( a ) an implied warranty on the part of the promoter of the trading scheme that he has a right to give the goods in exchange ; ( b ) an implied warranty that the goods are free from any charge or encumbrance not disclosed or known to the person obtaining the goods before , or at the time of redemption and that that person will enjoy quiet possession of the goods except so far as it may be disturbed by the owner or other person entitled to the benefit of any charge or encumbrance so disclosed or known ; ( c ) an implied warranty that the goods are of merchantable quality , except that there is no such warranty ( i ) as regards defects specifically drawn to the attention of the person obtaining the goods before or at the time of redemption ; or ( ii ) if that person examines the goods before or at the time of redemption , as regards defects which that examination ought to reveal . |
| 17 | I consider that as far as they were concerned Mr. Winterbone appeared to them to be perfectly clear and lucid and that , as was said , he seemed to know what he was doing . |
| 18 | In the 1990's , the animal painters interviewed here comment that as far as they are concerned , there is no sign of an economic recession . |
| 19 | Last year , this union held a ballot and a hundred and forty thousand members took part in that ballot for the leader of the Labour Party and they made it absolutely clear to the executive that as far as they were concerned they wanted a part and a say in who was the leader of the Labour Party , and they di decided dem democratically . |
| 20 | There is nothing he can tell you beyond what I already have — that as far as we are concerned my mother has been dead for more than twenty years . ’ |
| 21 | Er that as far as we know is the referee 's confirmed that it was offside and actually if you look at that it was offside . |
| 22 | As Goffmann points out , the end of conversational encounters carry an increased risk of creating offence — in the sense that careless or perfunctory termination may convey the misleading impression that one could n't wait for the session to end and that as far as one was concerned the whole episode was a waste of time . |
| 23 | Bell Labs notes that fault tolerance is common in hardware and in operating systems , but generally too costly for many software systems , and says that as far as it knows , these are the first general-purpose software modules , and they set a trend toward low-cost fault-tolerance in user-level software . |
| 24 | In a level voice he said , ‘ You gave me to understand that as far as you know there was no woman at the time but your mother . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , I realise that as far as you 're concerned I ca n't possibly hope to fill my predecessor 's shoes , but I do happen to be very good at my job . ’ |
| 26 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 27 | I would like to record that they tried to cheer each other up in their double misery , but I 'm afraid the truth is that as far as I know they never spoke to each other again . |
| 28 | He said , ‘ I 'd talked so much to Nigel about his thoughts on so many things that as far as I 'm concerned he was with us all the way through . |
| 29 | I replied that as far as I was concerned his terms and conditions of employment were best used as a rectal implant preferably without benefit of anaesthetic , which roused him to suggest that perhaps the whole matter would best be served by being turned over to the florid authority of Her Majesty 's Judiciary , via PC Plod , or at the very least to some banal tribunal vested with the right to dilly-dally over contretemps between master and servant . |
| 30 | I then indicated that as far as I was concerned the meeting should terminate there and then , since in no circumstances would I be willing to give advice contrary to the interests of my friend . |