Example sentences of "so far as i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But there are one or two perfectly good teachers as well , so far as I can judge . ’ |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | The inquiry you have asked me to undertake is , so far as I can understand , essentially a philosophical one . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Not very enthusiastically , and not at all successfully either , so far as I can ascertain , we have begun doing a sexual thing with ourself . |
| 36 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 37 | Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows . |
| 38 | These occasions , so far as I could tell , brought neither of us any pleasure . |
| 39 | The pancake , so far as I could tell , was a mixture of potato , cabbage , onion and seasonings . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | ‘ So far as I could judge , it was the smoothest-running diesel of its type on the market at the time , and the quickest , ’ he says . |
| 42 | So far as I could judge , events , were now moving in my favour . |
| 43 | I was in a large ward full of ailing women , many of them , so far as I could judge , suffering from senile decay . |
| 44 | He was immensely well-read on political history in the nineteenth century and more recent times , and he deployed a memory of fantastic accuracy , but so far as I could judge he had read virtually nothing else . |
| 45 | The Canadian has an operating crew of five ( excluding the dozen or so service staff ) and no one is entirely clear what they all do : fill out forms mostly , so far as I could see . |
| 46 | What I had to look forward to at best , so far as I could see , was marriage with a worthy young man such as Paolo , with whom I already felt myself to be in love , then children and a life of boring respectability in the Pianura Padana . |
| 47 | Madam Deputy Speaker there is course another matter of er of er broader significance and that is that er whilst these orders er er er cover erm certain financial institutions , they do n't erm they do n't cover others , they do n't cover Lloyds of London in so far as I could see , erm I 'd half expected to see the honourable member for Gloucester West er in his place to pursue his campaign that apparently he er he he is not able to be here and indeed er others who sit on the benches opposite who lost a large sum of money in Lloyds , er but they might have had something to say about it as it does seem odd that Lloyds has not been covered , no doubt the minister would tell us that needs primary legislation and I I 'm quite sure this government would move heaven and earth not to introduce another Lloyds bill er because of er the problems that that would no doubt attract . |
| 48 | Mr Lewis , so far as I could ascertain , had already retired . |