Example sentences of "far as [pron] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merulo 's Canzoni … fatte alla Francese ( 1592 , 1606 , and 1611 ) treat their originals , so far as one can trace them , with great freedom of keyboard texture . |
| 2 | ‘ So far as one can understand it , ’ says Freddie . |
| 3 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 4 | But as far as we can tell he does n't seem to have any brain damage . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " As far as we can determine there were three men , two with clubs who did the beating and one other , " Tom Rooney said quietly . |
| 7 | Even so , the starting-point , so far as we can find one , was polytheistic . |
| 8 | He lighted his cigar , puffed furiously , sank back in his seat , as far as it would allow him to , and stared fixedly through the windscreen , already lightly furred with snow . |
| 9 | Richard Needham , it was said , is only interested in appearing to develop the area in so far as it would assist him in his fight against ‘ terrorism ’ . |
| 10 | Information on individual cases is referred to him in so far as it might help him to frame proposals for orders and changes in the law . |
| 11 | There is no reason why a male bird should signal accurate information to its competitors , except in so far as it will scare them away . |
| 12 | what was Mr attitude to spending on national advertising in so far as you could work it out ? |
| 13 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 14 | As far as you could see there was a great undulating cushion of varied greenery , mile upon mile of leaves . |
| 15 | First , a murder should be , as far as you can make it so , attention-grabbing . |
| 16 | Equally , your murder still needs to be , in so far as you can contrive it without becoming ridiculous , attention-grabbing . |
| 17 | I do n't trust anyone as far as I could throw them : it 's as simple as that . |
| 18 | The children of Egypt played in the dust-laden sunlight , and as far as I could tell they were happy . |
| 19 | As far as I could tell she 'd drunk a litre and a half , allowing for spillage , so her behaviour was understandable . |
| 20 | Our Tory MP did jump off his LandRover to shake my hand and take one of my leaflets the other day , but as far as I could tell I was the only voter he met that morning . |
| 21 | As far as I could remember I 'd rowed ashore in a fairly direct line from Joanna to the beach . |
| 22 | As far as I could discern none of the courts operates on any form of jury system . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ As far as I can tell their clubs are doing very well . |
| 25 | As far as I can tell there were cells in London , Edinburgh and Oxford as well as here in Dublin . ’ |
| 26 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 27 | far as I can Have you got a screwdriver ? |
| 28 | As far as I can remember it has always been a hot one , in that season beloved of medieval lyricists . |
| 29 | ‘ As far as I can see we can either go for Dersingham or for the man himself . |
| 30 | ‘ I treat you like a child because as far as I can see you are one . ’ |