Example sentences of "so far as [pron] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Language is not just the means of communication in literature , but , in so far as one can say literature has a content , language in all its opacity is also the content of literature . |
| 32 | So far as one can judge , the women 's resistance movement was formed towards the end of June 1910 , that is while talks were still inconclusive , and before the events reported above led the management of Neill 's and Morrison & Gibb 's to sign the memorial . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | In so far as one can single out a starting-point in Althusser 's exposition , it is Marx 's critique of homo oeconomicus . |
| 35 | It is an undistinguished spit of land , barely afloat so far as one can see , but it has in its time hosted some very high-level exchanges of civilities and even persons between the two countries . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 38 | Far more interesting is whether the hon. Gentleman and his Back-Bench colleagues support Labour 's new nuclear defence policy — so far as anyone can understand it . |
| 39 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 40 | In so far as I can make out the policy of the Labour party , it is to give the business rate back to local authorities . |
| 41 | ( 87 ) He appears to be unaware of after-image phenomena and , so far as I can make out , puts forward an explanation , instead , which says that movement can be perceived when no object is seen to move ! |
| 42 | And underneath that thought ( I think ! ) is another one another underblanket , insulating the underblanket above and which , so far as I can make out through the layers on top of it , runs something like this : |
| 43 | ‘ Mostly , so far as I can tell , they turn a blind eye . |
| 44 | Out of this confusion emerge two major problems that , so far as I can tell , are here to stay . |
| 45 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 46 | And so far as I can tell , you know , from looking at my children 's schooling , the girls seem to be good at maths in the early stages . |
| 47 | Techno of the most pathetic kind , with squealing , oh so excited vocals that will sound familiar to anyone who remembers Bow Wow Wow , not that it 's Ms Louise Wynne , so far as I can gather . |
| 48 | ‘ Matilda , so far as I can gather at this early stage , is also a kind of mathematical genius . |
| 49 | So far as I can discover , this appears to be some sort of first parliamentary double . |
| 50 | I wonder if you are using ( in lectures ) a statement I remember you making in talk , but not so far as I can recall , in print . |
| 51 | ‘ So far as I can see it 's practically certain Mr Merrivale was in there with her early on in the night , ’ said Ethel . |
| 52 | ‘ So far as I can see , he only thinks about snooker , his girlfriend and pop music . |
| 53 | I am opposed to judicial corporal punishment , always have been and , so far as I can see , always shall be . |
| 54 | ‘ The only way to change Ray MacSharry 's mind , so far as I can see , is before he makes it up . |
| 55 | Of course , helicopters can hover , while , so far as I can see , light planes can rarely drop to less than 90 miles per hour , so when there is a choice , it is best to shoot from helicopters . |
| 56 | So far as I can see , we 'd be doing him a favour . ’ |
| 57 | So far as I can see , there are about 16m private motorists ; 10m I would like to insure , and I think we might end up insuring 3m . ’ |
| 58 | So far as I can see , even a partisan of naturalistic epistemology is not committed to finding general characterizations or explanations of justification or reliability . |
| 59 | " It 's all good , so far as I can see . |
| 60 | Well the only thing we have a problem on ‘ Sonnet ’ with , Luke , so far as I can see anyway , and I know Jeff agrees with me on this — right Jeff ? — and so does Jim incidentally , Luke , ’ said Joe , ‘ is the form . ’ |