Example sentences of "far as [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As far as we went last night ? |
2 | On the left , the attitude of Moscow and the Third International , in so far as they had any influence at all in Spain before the war , was to encourage Popular Front democracy and discourage revolution . |
3 | All cities , in so far as they became modern cities in the last decades of the nineteenth century , underwent the following changes in the organization of public space : ( 1 ) The development of separate commercial districts . |
4 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
5 | I find that an extraordinary statement of policy , because I had always believed that , in so far as it had any justification at all , the Labour party 's commitment to unilateralism , to the closure of bases , to the withdrawal from NATO , was based on a principle — on a deeply held conviction that those things were wrong . |
6 | This ‘ immediacy ’ of meaning in oral society he relates to the society 's functional needs , citing Malinowski 's claim that ‘ in the Trobriands the outer world was only named in so far as it yielded useful things ’ ( ibid . ) . |
7 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |
8 | Weber differed , however , in incorporating rather more of the Marxist analysis into his own theory , in so far as he recognized social classes — and more generally , various ‘ constellations of interest ’ in the economic sphere as important bases of domination , in his intense preoccupation with the growth of bureaucratic domination , and in the concentration of his analysis upon the different ways in which domination can make claims to ‘ legitimacy ’ and so constitute itself as a moral authority . |