Example sentences of "far [conj] can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British picture is different ; rapes , robbery and assault are predominantly intra-racial as far as can be analysed , except for racial attacks on blacks . |
| 2 | The original document no longer exists , as far as can be determined , but in November 1948 David Stirling wrote a confidential memorandum on the origins of the regiment he founded , on which much of the following section is based . |
| 3 | Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was . |
| 4 | States that ‘ the essential characteristics of Green Belts is ( sic ) their permanence and their protection must be maintained as far as can be seen ahead ’ . |
| 5 | Suppose also that it is somehow possible to place it in a space capsule in which it can survive , so far as can be seen , for ever , without any external aid . |
| 6 | As far as can be seen , they were not involved in their lord 's personal life . |
| 7 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 8 | Penda 's invasion of the territory of the eastern Angles in 635/6 or 636/7 , when he slew in battle both King Ecgric and the ex-king , Sigeberht , who had been brought out of his monastery to lead the army with Ecgric ( HE 111 , 18 ) , terminated , as far as can be seen , the exercise of royal power among the eastern Angles by the direct descendants of Raedwald ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , and made the repression of Penda 's ambition imperative if Oswald were to reconstruct the paramount position which had been Eadwine 's . |
| 9 | It may be simply that no document has survived in which Aethelberht was required to acknowledge Aethelbald as his overlord , but so far as can be seen there was no restriction on the power of the Kentish king to grant land to whomsoever he wished . |
| 10 | Moreover , so far as can be seen a Northumbrian hegemony continued to prevail between the Humber and the Forth and across to the west , above and below the Solway from the Mersey to the borders of Strathclyde , at least until the mid-eighth century . |
| 11 | As far as can be seen from aerial photographs and minor excavations , most of the main streets seem to have been lined with strip buildings , which are usually interpreted as shops and workshops . |
| 12 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 13 | As far as can be ascertained this happened near to the position of the guide pulley sited on the lower embankment . |
| 14 | As far as can be ascertained , it has always been a corn mill , mainly grinding corn from local farms for local consumption and in later life , rolled oats for local farmers . |
| 15 | He said that the cause was ‘ incorrect assembly , as far as can be ascertained ’ . |
| 16 | Talking to the locomotive owners and train organisers direct , as far as can be ascertained , the following trains have been agreed and authorised although not all of the departure times and routes have been fully confirmed . |
| 17 | The committee made no comment but as far as can be ascertained , no action was taken ; more urgent matters required attention . |
| 18 | The regular adherents of the congregation are about 100 ; the average attendance from 150 to 200 , and the number of members as far as can be ascertained about 25 , but this can form no criterion of what the congregation may become under a regular and thorough ministry . |
| 19 | There is a simple reason for its relative anonymity As far as can be ascertained the future of Cotherstone cheese appears to be in the hands of one lady , And she refuses absolutely to communicate with the media . |
| 20 | As far as can be made out , systems of fingerspelling have always come about by hearing invention . |
| 21 | However , it should perhaps be made clear that for most people with schizophrenia , their brains appear completely normal as far as can be made out when looked at under the microscope . |
| 22 | As far as can be gathered from the limited archaeological research so far done , there was a move from the older timber cottages to new stone-walled housing . |
| 23 | As far as can be assessed , there are about six comic postcards featuring the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 24 | As far as can be gauged , Wadhurst had a population at the time of about 1000 . |
| 25 | This book is not concerned , however , with might-have-beens but with the facts as they were , so far as can be told . |
| 26 | Although as far as can be established they were not as licentious as myth has claimed , their presence increased the risk of drunkenness and brawling . |
| 27 | So far as can be judged , the water supply was so poor that by September 1908 a Consulting Engineer was brought in to examine the problem although nothing further is recorded on the subject . |
| 28 | In every case , so far as can be judged , property located inside the city was carefully distinguished from what was owned elsewhere , and so here alone there is no ambiguity . |
| 29 | The office of Mufti held by Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan was , as far as can be judged from the sources , merely an adjunct to their other offices . |
| 30 | Hezarfen , in his listing of the Seyhulislams , as distinct from his discussion of the history of the office where he takes a slightly different view , departs significantly in only one respect from Katib Celebi ( at least in so far as can be judged from the one manuscript ) , namely in his treatment of Abdulkerim and Molla Arab . |