Example sentences of "so far as [pers pn] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | ‘ Matilda , so far as I can gather at this early stage , is also a kind of mathematical genius . |
| 35 | So far as I can discover , this appears to be some sort of first parliamentary double . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | ‘ So far as I can see it 's practically certain Mr Merrivale was in there with her early on in the night , ’ said Ethel . |
| 38 | ‘ So far as I can see , he only thinks about snooker , his girlfriend and pop music . |
| 39 | I am opposed to judicial corporal punishment , always have been and , so far as I can see , always shall be . |
| 40 | ‘ The only way to change Ray MacSharry 's mind , so far as I can see , is before he makes it up . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | So far as I can see , we 'd be doing him a favour . ’ |
| 43 | 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 . ’ |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | " It 's all good , so far as I can see . |
| 46 | 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 . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ There is nothing in the section , so far as I can see , inconsistent with the view that the cause of action arises when the work is completed . |
| 48 | The justices have not set out in terms their findings under section 1 but they have considered all the aspects of the case in so far as I can see . |
| 49 | The identification is often questioned , but so far as I can see on no adequate grounds . |
| 50 | Actually so far as I can see it 's sod 's law for women , just as it always has been . |
| 51 | It has n't grown Jed up , so far as I can see . |
| 52 | So far as I can see , unless there are fundamental changes in the British economy , the recession ai n't going to be over for a considerable time because the economy is in such a state . |
| 53 | In postwar Britain , the clothes , accents , and diction of the siblings may have changed , but , so far as I can judge , the suffocating insular coziness is just the same . |
| 54 | But , so far as I can judge of the matter , I should think that in the interests of the man himself — as a human being facing indefinite detention — it would be better for him to be told the reasons . |
| 55 | But there are one or two perfectly good teachers as well , so far as I can judge . ’ |
| 56 | According to my arithmetic that adds up to 35 guillotine motions , which is unprecedented in modern times — indeed , ever , so far as I can judge . |
| 57 | The inquiry you have asked me to undertake is , so far as I can understand , essentially a philosophical one . |
| 58 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 59 | Not very enthusiastically , and not at all successfully either , so far as I can ascertain , we have begun doing a sexual thing with ourself . |
| 60 | Equally , your murder still needs to be , in so far as you can contrive it without becoming ridiculous , attention-grabbing . |