Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [vb mod] judge " in BNC.

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1 By December 1888 Wilson , " speaking roughly , and as near as I can judge " , thought the union might have about 7,000 to 8,000 members and , in addition to Cardiff noted branches at Hull , Glasgow and Liverpool .
2 The tide was certainly making now , and if I kept to midstream as near as I could judge it , I should be safe enough — if I put Joanna on the mud , the making tide would soon get her off .
3 No , never tell me more of your goings and comings than is my due , I need only to know , as nearly as you may judge , how long I must bide here to wait for the answer . ’
4 So far as one can judge , the women 's resistance movement was formed towards the end of June 1910 , that is while talks were still inconclusive , and before the events reported above led the management of Neill 's and Morrison & Gibb 's to sign the memorial .
5 It needs to be emphasized , however , that such a conclusion would be in despite of the earliest biographical sources , the author of one of which was contemporary in time , if distant in space , and also , as far as one can judge , of the chronological lists and would therefore constitute important evidence of the limitations of these source materials .
6 As far as we can judge , in the early days at least , anti-Americanism went against the grain of popular feeling within Cuba .
7 The voters , so far as you can judge from Greek opinion polls , would like to choose an economically responsible government in the coming election , and may even be willing to react responsibly to what it asks of them .
8 ‘ So far as I could judge , it was the smoothest-running diesel of its type on the market at the time , and the quickest , ’ he says .
9 So far as I could judge , events , were now moving in my favour .
10 I was in a large ward full of ailing women , many of them , so far as I could judge , suffering from senile decay .
11 He was immensely well-read on political history in the nineteenth century and more recent times , and he deployed a memory of fantastic accuracy , but so far as I could judge he had read virtually nothing else .
12 ‘ As far as I could judge , he thought me an incompetent idiot who ought to be minding his own business .
13 In fact , as far as I could judge from the old hearing system , the effect on Quigley was fairly stupendous .
14 In postwar Britain , the clothes , accents , and diction of the siblings may have changed , but , so far as I can judge , the suffocating insular coziness is just the same .
15 As far as I can judge , there is a great longing there for France , Italy and all those places where they were once unable to travel but now can .
16 But , so far as I can judge of the matter , I should think that in the interests of the man himself — as a human being facing indefinite detention — it would be better for him to be told the reasons .
17 But there are one or two perfectly good teachers as well , so far as I can judge . ’
18 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 .
19 To — ‘ is he at all like you ? ’ — I must say — No — very categorically : setting aside personal appearances — he being stout — & good looking , — & I being ensiform , ( speaking botanically , ) that is — lanky — & considerably ugly , — we are , as far as I can judge — very opposite .
20 His quick eye also registered with some interest that not one of the ladies present , as far as he could judge , belonged to his mother 's circle .
21 There were indeed lots of MacLeans — nearly the whole Clan MacLean , as far as she could judge .
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