Example sentences of "were [adj] [adv] far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shuckskin ? — some foreign name — rather handsome , actually — that such things were possible as far as Japanese women were concerned . |
| 2 | Russia , Cuba , China , old man Cobbley and all , they were welcome as far as she was concerned . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sometimes , in fact very often , combined operations with our Investigation Department were inconclusive as far as material results were concerned , but a picture would be built up , or a missing piece in a jig-saw puzzle would be provided . |
| 5 | ‘ In the first half I thought we played some great stuff , but football is all about what happens in front of goal and we were disappointing so far as that was concerned . ’ |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal held that those transactions were valid so far as they were entered into for the purposes of interest rate risk management and not for trading purposes . |