Example sentences of "so far as [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as we know they had met only in 1079 , when Eadmer was one of the young monks to whom Anselm talked during his first visit to Canterbury . |
| 2 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 3 | With pragmatism truth and usefulness become fused : ‘ ideas … become true just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relations with other parts of our experience . ’ |
| 4 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So far as she knew they were only the result of an innocent friendship , so why Feargal 's anger ? |
| 7 | Some fat old hag in a dirty apron came and said so far as she knew you were in hospital . |
| 8 | Their publication was a speculation which — so far as it made me known & procured me employment in Zoological drawing — answered my expectations — but in matters of money occasioned me considerable loss . |
| 9 | Wealth is only desirable in so far as it enables them to indulge in litigation , and the height of their ambition is to succeed in a case , especially if thereby their enemy is punished . ’ |
| 10 | The tolerance of adults is important only in so far as it allows them to feed high on the shore , exposed to rain . |
| 11 | Whilst other sections of the population are clearly severely affected by these government policies , disabled people experience these particular ‘ reforms ’ as an attack on their human right not to be incarcerated without trial and conviction , in so far as it renders it in some cases impossible to live outside institutions . |
| 12 | As strategic proposals emerge , each subsystem will evaluate them against developments in other subsystems , in so far as it perceives them to affect it too . |
| 13 | The Revolution had impinged on their consciousness only in so far as it provided them with land , or took away foodstuffs during War Communism . |
| 14 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 15 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 16 | But so far as I know they have never been reprinted , and I have let slip from my memory now the name of the author ( a salutary warning against undue pride for those of us writing today ) . |
| 17 | Although er er physically on my right I I think their policies , in so far as I glean they have any , er are most definitely far from the right . |
| 18 | So far as I understand it my options are one of the following : |
| 19 | So far as you see it |