Example sentences of "far as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 3 | His attempts failed , and he came to the conclusion that the best that could be achieved was to specify , so far as one could , which observation statements were implied by which non-observation statements ( see the preface to Carnap , 1967 , and Quine , 1969 , p. 77 ) . |
| 4 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 5 | I took the dinghy as far as we could go , right up near to the lock gates . |
| 6 | He 'd be talking to some man all evening , they 'd be getting on very well indeed as far as we could all see , but then Miss P would still be there alone when the lights went on , and the man would have gone . |
| 7 | Because as far as we could see , |
| 8 | It was just us , on a long stretch of sand , with the dark sea ahead of us — a landscape which might go on into infinity , as far as we could tell . |
| 9 | It looked enticing and we decided to follow it as far as we could . |
| 10 | As far as we could tell the Moslem factions were out of the fray for the time being . |
| 11 | ‘ As far as we could find out , he 's got no plans to expand in that area , Ray , ’ Hitch said , sipping his drink . |
| 12 | As far as we could see , ship after ship was anchored all down the outer loch , and as we progressed towards Ullapool we could see that the anchored ships extended right into the bay past Ullapool piers . |
| 13 | In fact I mean you can buy or I mean you 've got the record of erm how far back , you could invite all the existing , living parish councillors , so far as we could , and , and that , that would be , I think that would be fascinating . |
| 14 | ‘ As far as we could . ’ |
| 15 | Roxie assented : ‘ As far as we could . ’ |
| 16 | We er went as far as we could without er erm finding that we would have to delete allocations that we were making or produce unrealistic er development sites erm the the figure of er twenty five hectares simply means that we 're ratcheting the the whole thing down to a point at which it ca n't be sustained . |
| 17 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |
| 18 | Although the subject was something not discussed , almost everyone in the road had at one time or another been confided in and had helped Mrs Browning as far as they could , although she seemed to feel she should not worry any particular neighbour too much so went from one to another , as it were in turn . |
| 19 | As far as they could see , the walls were plain white , with evenly spaced-out black doors . |
| 20 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 21 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |
| 22 | He replied that it did seem strange to him too , but that at every stage God — as far as they could discern — had opened the way to do this . |
| 23 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 24 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 25 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 26 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |
| 27 | The trees over Three Island Pond bent to the left with its force , and Creggan saw from the shadows that such ducks as were visible were taking shelter on the lee of the islands , bunching together for warmth and sinking their necks and heads as far as they could into their breast feathers . |
| 28 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 29 | They were both straining to reach , leaning forward as far as they could , agonisingly aware that the door and its ring handle that might have given them some leverage were out of their reach , when another sound fell on their ears . |
| 30 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |