Example sentences of "[adv] far as i can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But there are one or two perfectly good teachers as well , so far as I can judge . ’ |
| 32 | According to my arithmetic that adds up to 35 guillotine motions , which is unprecedented in modern times — indeed , ever , so far as I can judge . |
| 33 | The inquiry you have asked me to undertake is , so far as I can understand , essentially a philosophical one . |
| 34 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 35 | Not very enthusiastically , and not at all successfully either , so far as I can ascertain , we have begun doing a sexual thing with ourself . |
| 36 | As far as I can make out , all we have done so far is talk about it and we have not even done very much of that . |
| 37 | But he was an American citizen , born in the States as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ As far as I can make out no one has yet said conclusively that this man is Greg Martin' , she argued . |
| 39 | As far as I can make out , Deanes does n't believe that young people should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong . |
| 40 | ‘ As far as I can make out from the little she said about what actually happened , the man who kidnapped them , there was only one at that point , was hidden in the back of their car when they got in . |
| 41 | Following a time-honoured tradition of psychiatric categories , she elaborates the ‘ bereavement response ’ to diagnosis into a farrago of stages ( none of whose terms , as far as I can make out , has ever been defined ) : ( 1 ) ‘ Shock ’ , ( 2 ) ‘ panic ’ , ( 3 ) ‘ Denial ’ , ( 4 ) ‘ Grief ’ , ( 5 ) ‘ Guilt ’ , ( 6 ) ‘ Anger ’ ( in general ) , ( 7 ) ‘ Anger Against professionals ’ , ( 8 ) ‘ Bargaining ’ and finally ( 9 ) ‘ Acceptance ’ . |
| 42 | As far as I can make out , we 've already passed where it 's supposed to have stopped . |
| 43 | There 's a flower bed of sorts over by the fence but the flowers look to be on their last legs , as far as I can make out . |
| 44 | ‘ Only Nicola herself , as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 45 | The keys to the Cathedral were widely distributed as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ No — as far as I can make out it was hidden in it . |
| 47 | Actually , I would n't mind at all , because as far as I can make out Walter was an amiable scamp . |
| 48 | As far as I can make out , the hon. and learned Gentleman has just created a precedent by telling the House that , in the two wars in which we have been involved , it was — to use his word — ’ inconceivable ’ that the Government would have used nuclear weapons . |
| 49 | ‘ As far as I can make out , ’ Blunt said , ‘ the girl was in the fields under our dog-fight , and somebody 's bullets hit her . ’ |
| 50 | As far as I can discover , except for the rough translation of a poem by Watcyn Wyn in his Wales ( 1905 ) , there is no further mention of verse of any kind in Edward Thomas 's letters after this Long Vacation . |
| 51 | Although I have mentioned the analogous process with optical film , as far as I can discover magnetic tape was first spliced to make a BBC radio programme . |
| 52 | As far as I can discover from replies received or from the 1959 College Register the rest of us , either from choice or to fulfil the conditions of grants or the needs of wartime , became teachers , the length of our service varying accordingly . |
| 53 | Actually , as far as I can gather , it 's just their jargon for a bedsit house . |
| 54 | Mine was all about Strong-mindedness , and Gay 's , as far as I can gather , was on Undue Levity , its cause and cure … ’ |
| 55 | ‘ As far as I can gather from my limited field work they seem to be produced on every possible and impossible occasion . |
| 56 | " The Federation , as far as I can gather , would have allowed us to continue playing . |
| 57 | In fact , nobody anywhere — as far as I can tell — has questioned any aspect of this nonsense . |
| 58 | His death is a sin offering , he gives his life for us , he dies for us , but , as far as I can tell , the New Testament never answers this question : To whom is the sin offering given ? |
| 59 | I speak from bitter experience as I have worked as a diver for just five days since qualifying as a part 111 diver in December 1990 , and the situation is not that much better , as far as I can tell , for part 1s . |
| 60 | As far as I can tell , Guitarist has always welcomed valid criticism and suggestions for changes or new ideas , but that does n't mean that they have to follow all of it all of the time . |