Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] i understand " in BNC.

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1 In so far as I understand the logic here , heterosexual sodomy is surrogate homosexuality and homosexual sodomy is surrogate heterosexuality — or rather surrogate heterosexual incestuous genital intercourse .
2 But the ability to produce such phrases does not constitute communicative competence in so far as I understand the concept ( Widdowson 1978 , 1979 , 1983 , 1984a , 1989 ) , or as discussed in , for example , Canale and Swain 1980 , and Bachman 1990 .
3 In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) .
4 So far as I understand it my options are one of the following :
5 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 .
6 One last matter please erm , so far as I understand that you 've not yet drafted the separate staff requirement for reconnaissance , I beg you pardon , reconnaissance equipment for Eurofighter two thousand .
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