Example sentences of "but [adv] far as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile . |
| 2 | Especially from the Seven Years War in 1757 , the wars in which Britain was involved may have been European and dynastic in origin , but so far as her struggle with France was concerned , they were global in breadth . |
| 3 | A lot of people ran away with the idea that they were Pacifists , but so far as he was concerned that was not true . |
| 4 | But so far as I 'm concerned , Fedorov is the more important ; do n't do anything to prejudice our chances of taking him . ’ |
| 5 | Britain 's former world sports car champion Brundle said last night : ‘ I 've heard the stories , but so far as I 'm concerned they 're just that — stories and rumour . |
| 6 | But so far as I know they have never been reprinted , and I have let slip from my memory now the name of the author ( a salutary warning against undue pride for those of us writing today ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The identification is often questioned , but so far as I can see on no adequate grounds . |
| 9 | Lithium batteries are even better , but so far as I know are only available in PP3 size . |
| 10 | I am open to contradiction , but so far as I understand , the Association as such , played no direct part either in the recent increases in apprentices ' salaries , which were reviewed automatically , nor in the revival of their indenture , which is the result of a tortuous and painfully slow consideration by the Law Society . |
| 11 | But as far as we are concerned it is not about money , it is about thanking the fans . |
| 12 | But as far as we can tell he does n't seem to have any brain damage . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ People say we 're ‘ retro ’ , but as far as we 're concerned we 're just going through a learning process . |
| 14 | He was known to be a political activist , but as far as we know had no record of violence . |
| 15 | Of course it 's only a rummage-search , but as far as we 've gone , there 's nothing in that boat at all that has n't a right to be there . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But as far as we know , she is still mechanically fine and she has still got some running life which is why she will be touring the preserved railways . ’ |
| 17 | Our efforts to meet the company have so far been unsuccessful , but as far as we understand from the AEU ( which has a single union agreement with Montupet ) , there are no special mechanisms to target recruitment and training on the unemployed and it is worth bearing in mind that the code of practice of the new Fair Employment Act puts the idea of the merit principle above that of equality of outcome or the achievement of social justice . |
| 18 | always say this because , you know , developments happen all the time , but as far as we know , genes are handed on as complete discrete enti entities , in units is what discovered . |
| 19 | But as far as we 're concerned , they 're two patients with injuries that need treatment and that 's how we see them . |
| 20 | ‘ The test has shown positive , but as far as we know at the moment it could have come from many different sources . ’ |
| 21 | And if you 're with National Westminster , you telephone a , a n a number in Manchester or Birmingham or two or three other places I guess but as far as we 're concerned er the Birmingham Manchester one 's the cheapest you , you ring them up and you give them A your identification number and it immediately tells you what your balance is . |
| 22 | But as far as their ideas of women in society goes it has n't changed — that women should stay home and do the cooking . ’ |
| 23 | Of course , record companies are always going to want you to have a hit , but as far as what we do , they just have to look at our albums and try to pick out something they can exploit that way , after the event , as compared to trying to make us sit down and write a hit . |
| 24 | We went in gingerly but as far as one could tell the floor was solid except for the one strip over the missing bit of beam . |
| 25 | All sorts of theories to explain the phenomenon have been advanced , but as far as I am concerned , it works . |
| 26 | But as far as I knew , he had no other friends in Salamanca , though he had only to lift his little finger and both men and women would have come running at his bidding . |
| 27 | His mother says that he talked to her about it and she tried to convince him that he was misinterpreting what he had seen and heard , but as far as I can learn John never mentioned it to anyone else until late in life , when telling Dr Schäfer about the thoughts which led him to make his ballet Spuren . |
| 28 | True , the attraction of becoming ‘ British ’ is a big one , but as far as I can see it is the only one . |
| 29 | I was weak , highly emotional , but as far as I knew , well . |
| 30 | I mean I 'm no historian , you 'd have to check up on this with my hubby , but as far as I know the Reformation started up North in Europe a guid lang mile away from Rome and the Pope and that , up in the Region of what we now know as Holland , and Germany and Alsace Lorraine . |