Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] far as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 2 | He never had any long-term physical relationships as far as I know . |
| 3 | ‘ No , you can talk quite freely — there 's no phone tapping these days as far as we know ’ |
| 4 | After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms . |
| 5 | be no problems as far as he knows . |
| 6 | The exchange rate is excellent and you 'll find a pound goes three times as far as it does in Britain ( a feast in a good restaurant can be less than £3 ) . |
| 7 | Well , they were professionals as far as I know , it was n't a matter there of professionals beating amateurs. erm As for the distinction between the amateur and the professional , no , I think , I think that we 've got stuck with this amateur business , partly because it 's related to the idea of the English gentleman , which is only slowly fading . |
| 8 | I 'm not aware we 've got people living physically on agricultural land at the moment , they are fields as far as I know . |
| 9 | For example , in 1967 the Monopolies Commission investigated the general effect on the public interest of certain restrictive practices so far as they prevailed in relation to the supply of professional services . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll start with the facts as far as we know them at the moment . ’ |