Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] far as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footnotes in plenty have been added to Dodd , but his pattern remains a fair summary of the early preaching so far as we can reconstruct it . |
| 2 | There are over protective parents and there are those that will defend the indefensible as far as their children are concerned . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's OK as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |
| 4 | This book , therefore , is good and probably reliable as far as it goes . |
| 5 | I 'm afraid as far as I 'm concerned you still look about sixteen . |
| 6 | It 's a load of fucking crap to be quite honest as far as I 'm concerned ! |
| 7 | This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go . |
| 8 | Then , holding everything else constant so far as we can , we form a judgement about what will most probably happen . |
| 9 | He squatted down and propped it against a clump of little bushes , pulling up the aerial as far as it would go . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Russia , Cuba , China , old man Cobbley and all , they were welcome as far as she was concerned . |
| 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 | He does but they 're not very good as far as we 're concerned . |
| 19 | I was interested to read your recent articles on commercial diver training , which were very good as far as they went . |
| 20 | Young Charlie — who was always up to no good as far as I could see — nevertheless had what Tata called ‘ a future ’ . |
| 21 | You are innocent as far as Her Majesty 's Government is concerned . |
| 22 | Er , so as far as I 'm concerned and I 'm sure as far as you 're concerned , we are battling this together . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But it 's got nothing to do with being a Nazi as far as I 'm concerned … |
| 26 | Well that was of the interesting things to come out of the study , erm something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 27 | Well that was one of the interesting things to come out of the study , something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 28 | The kink in the Primarch 's gene-seed might indeed confer will power in regard to enduring pain , even a fascination with torment — how else could any of the cadets have progressed any distance at all , let alone as far as they had proceeded ? — yet plainly there were limits , which this tunnel — so bland in its appearance , so hideous in its effect — seemed designed to test to snapping point . |
| 29 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ The facts will be accurate as far as they go . |