Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked totally vulnerable , and for once far younger than his years . |
| 2 | How much design effort is needed in the different areas will not be clear at this stage but unless the system is very simple there are bound to be problems of overlap and of how far to arrange sub-teams by discipline , by function or by problem ( Singleton , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | Consideration of the inspection and the feedback sessions raises the question of how far the inspection was a follow-on from the self-appraisal and of how far the school 's own review was evaluated by professional outsiders . |
| 4 | On the riverbank a small army of frogs croaked a hoarse descant to the incessant , high-pitched whine of unseen cicadas and from somewhere far off a bird screamed intermittently as though in agony . |
| 5 | Armies from Sweden and Spain , France , the Netherlands and from as far away as Transylvania contended for superiority . |
| 6 | Judging by the visitors ' book , it has already been seen by several thousand members of the public and potential clients — including visitors from most European Countries and from as far away as Brazil , Alaska and South Korea . |
| 7 | Academics can still write evaluative criticism of course , and in so far as they do they are producing the kind of criticism practised by men of letters . |
| 8 | Awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock was spread much more evenly throughout the electorate , and in so far as it did vary it was particularly high amongst those who had recently watched television news or had recently discussed the campaign ( Table 7.7 ) . |
| 9 | By the end of the campaign that was no longer so true : awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock had spread much more evenly through the electorate and in so far as it did vary it was particularly high amongst those who had recently watched television news or discussed the campaign . |
| 10 | The spoken word is his chosen form of communication , and in so far as he learns anything , he absorbs knowledge through conversation . |
| 11 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 12 | Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing . |
| 13 | Thus far it can be argued that , if and in so far as the objection to the validity of a pretended Act of Parliament is purely procedural , there is no objection to any court ( and not merely the House of Lords ) making such minimal inquiries as are consistent with Parliamentary privilege in order to ensure that the instrument in question was consented to by the two Houses and did receive the Royal Assent . |
| 14 | In literate society , these interlocking conversations go on ; but they are no longer man 's only dialogue ; and in so far as writing provides an alternative source for the transmission of cultural orientations it favours awareness of inconsistency . |
| 15 | In an essay published in 1915 , for example , Dewey examined the nature of practical judgment , which he defined ‘ a judgment respecting the future termination of an incomplete and in so far indeterminate situation ’ . |
| 16 | In ‘ action ’ he includes ‘ all human action , when and in so far as the acting individual attaches subjective meaning to it ’ . |
| 17 | When Weber remarked initially that he would consider ‘ all action when and in so far as the acting individual attaches subjective meaning to it ’ , he invited the comment that there are all sorts of subjective meanings . |
| 18 | For in that they are living in the modern world , and in so far ( one must say ) as they are good persons seeking to do what is right , conservatives must see much of the critique of past patriarchal relationships to be justified . |
| 19 | And in so far as we can use gender imagery for these things the Logos is a masculine principle … . |
| 20 | Studying the semantic features of texts is inevitably rather an intuitive business , and in so far as we can quantify such features at all , it often seems best to attach them to grammatical labels ( eg " colour adjectives " , " adverbials of place " ) , and to use some arbitrary standard of measurement , such as number of words . |
| 21 | Others would admit , indeed require , that higher education should embody rationality , and in so far as one can believe or practice that , it becomes a cultural pattern . |
| 22 | If and in so far as Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 23 | If and in so far as there are any presumptions which assist in my conclusions ( and I instinctively dislike introducing presumptions in reaching a decision of fact as crucial as this ) , the presumption that a state of affairs continues until the evidence suggests that it no longer pertains is more to the point than the submission of Mr. Levy that the sanctity of life is so vital an interest to protect that if I am in any doubt that should take precedence . |
| 24 | Of course , if and in so far as the power was derived from the Crown as the fountain of justice : see , in a different context , Lincoln v. Daniels [ 1962 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 25 | They uniformly show young , narrow-shouldered , and in so far as one can see through the draperies , narrow-hipped , flat-chested women with long pale hands which have clearly never done a stroke of work . |
| 26 | Most often associated with the school of functional sociology , these ideas have as axiomatic a pluralist integrative approach to political development , in which the centre is synonymous with authority ; and in so far as societies fail to conform with the model of integrated consensual authority , they are not properly modern . |
| 27 | Most of the Cubists were united in declaring that theirs was an art of realism , and in so far as Cubism was concerned with reinterpreting the external world in a detached , objective way it was also in a sense a classical art . |
| 28 | But he can rarely know whether or not the policeman has good grounds for acting as he does , and in so far as there is a conflict between the citizen and the policeman , the reasonable suspicions of the policeman must take priority . |
| 29 | Every schoolchild the world over knows the profile of the Taj , and in so far as Safdarjung 's tomb is different , it at first sight looks wrong : its lines look somehow faulty , naggingly incorrect . |
| 30 | Septimus Coffin could call on forty years of experience , and in so far as Latin could be made entertaining , he made it so . |