Example sentences of "so far as [pron] [modal v] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as we can tell , the men-folk ruled in every sphere ; but it may be that the further one got from the world of high feudalism the less of a slave the woman became ; it is certainly true , in a rather different way , that the Norman Conquest brought both a more complete feudalism and a fall in the status of women . |
| 2 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 3 | The English fyrd was used in the Danish wars , but only later , so far as we can tell , as a local militia in emergencies . |
| 4 | He was not , so far as we can tell , putting forward the idea as a serious theory : his purpose was to tell a good story . |
| 5 | The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances . |
| 6 | Who ( or what sort of audience ) must the implied addressee(s) be , so far as we can tell from the passage itself ? |
| 7 | On the eve of the crisis , most politicians , political commentators and — so far as we can tell — citizens remained sceptical that the sixty-seven year old General would ever play a major role in politics again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So far as one can tell from the scanty evidence available they had been something short of that . |
| 10 | ‘ And , so far as one can tell , he regretted it ever after . ’ |
| 11 | They had come , so far as she could tell , west and north , perhaps far enough north to turn west , that was all . |
| 12 | No one , so far as she could tell , hugged the doorways , folded into the shadows . |
| 13 | But only the occasional innocent — so far as she could tell — twang of the springs of the hideous black and red sofa punctuated the interview . |
| 14 | ‘ Mostly , so far as I can tell , they turn a blind eye . |
| 15 | Out of this confusion emerge two major problems that , so far as I can tell , are here to stay . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These occasions , so far as I could tell , brought neither of us any pleasure . |
| 19 | The pancake , so far as I could tell , was a mixture of potato , cabbage , onion and seasonings . |
| 20 | In all my texts and documents , there were , so far as I could tell , no moments of pure , unfettered subjectivity ; indeed , the human subject itself began to seem remarkably unfree , the ideological product of the relations of power in a particular society . |