Example sentences of "[adv] far as [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 2 | On the north side , that 's all disrupted by the Castle , and as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the of Lewes was ceded to William de Warren , most of the local powers of the town council , such as it was , were taken away and subverted , and the town became a manorial borough . |
| 3 | That tentative conclusion probably is as far as one can go on the basis of empirical evidence . |
| 4 | What we do n't know , of course , is how they organized their living accommodation , whether they ever got paid , they were given these sort of , £ tickets that were supposed to be honoured later on , but as far as we can make out , they hardly ever were , erm and how the people got on , we just have to use our imagination , but it is interesting that here for instance in these three , we actually apart from anything else have two women house-holders , who are obviously erm women who are carrying on business of some independence . |
| 5 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 6 | Without a collar , that 's as far as we can go . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's as far as we can go . |
| 8 | I think , colleagues that 's as far as we can go today . |
| 9 | I think we 've already discussed over great length and I think we 've gone as far as we can go at this moment . |
| 10 | What is our work as far as we can prove it today . |
| 11 | Well as far as we can work out what actually happened is is the referee does give a free kick for this back pass there . |
| 12 | Saturn , Saturn is as far as we can see . |
| 13 | Now as a result of that , we always recognize there will be a loss to Shropshire County Council , because we 've benefited from the previous distribution , and as far as we can see in real terms we 've lost about a hundred and thirty thousand as a result of that move of a specific grant into distribution through your revenue support grant . |
| 14 | Not quickly as far as we can see . |
| 15 | There is a statement that asks and directs the County Council to take account of the need to r revitalize West Yorkshire and as far as we can see that has n't been done . |
| 16 | As far as we can judge in five minutes , yes . |
| 17 | That 's as far as I can think . |
| 18 | But that 's as far as I can go . |
| 19 | This is as far as I can go . |
| 20 | I then as far as I can recollect , I ca n't remember whether the door was ajar or totally shut erm I would have put my hand to the handle and once knowing the door was free from its its erm lock I then pushed the door hard with the shield make , knowing that it would then bang , hopefully bang against the back wall . |
| 21 | As as far as I can recollect . |
| 22 | Steer 's is quite good as far as I can tell . |
| 23 | No side effects , fine as far as I can tell . |
| 24 | Erm , it 's it 's an odd plant , I 've wandered round it , sort of steam heat situation , as far as I can tell . |
| 25 | As far as I can tell , the other stages also seem to work , |
| 26 | I can only put down what I know to be the truth as far as I can tell . |
| 27 | That 's a point I was going to make , but as far as I can tell in en masse , the main , the main nominated bodies have been of political parties . |
| 28 | Finally taking a look at the traffic on Nottingham 's roads as far as I can tell it 's all moving fairly steadily . |
| 29 | as far as I can gather , I do n't know , I 'd imagine where a line has a minimum period of three months rental |
| 30 | However , it seems that as far as I can make out from the correspondence , the Commissionaires are split in their opinion as to the legality of action of the German government . |