Example sentences of "far as it can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , I propose taking the logic of generic concentration as far as it can go , with a degree which would study , in detail , a single genre , poetry . |
| 2 | When it comes to asking who or what theists consider God to be , on the other hand , any answer must embrace as far as it can the full spectrum of religious opinion . |
| 3 | The cursor must be within a paragraph for the ruler line to reveal its formatting ( as far as it can ) . |
| 4 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 5 | The pathetic story has been told , as far as it can now be known , in Mrs Spurling 's book , but an element of mystery remains . |
| 6 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 7 | Fortunately you have a chancre which has appeared soon , and this means that the system has an opportunity to right itself as far as it can , having got rid of some of the trouble . |
| 8 | Hinshaw makes a distinction between the ‘ cognitive ’ and ‘ evocative ’ contents of knowledge suggesting that the ‘ truth ’ , at the semantic and syntactic levels , can be considered in isolation from the social basis of knowledge in so far as it can be shown to be cognitive rather than evocative . |
| 9 | We have examined these processes in three different areas : perception as far as it can be determined from neurophysiological and laterality studies , remembering in a short-term memory context , and organisation in recall as it occurs in story-telling . |
| 10 | In reaching 24 processor configurations , Pyramid says it has gone as far as it can with the R3000 . |
| 11 | Human behaviour enters social reality in so far as it can be given a meaning . |
| 12 | Taking it as far as it can be taken , Hegel suggests that the conflict between myself and the person in whom my identity resides will become a struggle between life and death , because , he says , it is only by risking one 's life that one becomes fully aware of oneself as a free , autonomous individual . |
| 13 | His conclusion was that a moving object , so far as it can , goes on moving . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the skeleton structure formed by the relationship between the contexts , dated wherever possible by finds or by scientific methods , gives the outline of the history of the site as far as it can be known . |
| 15 | In general terms , however , the present state of the law is that an individual who has reached the age of 18 is free to do with his life what he wishes , but it is the duty of the court to ensure so far as it can that children survive to attain that age . |
| 16 | Yet , in so far as it can be pinned down , this is the sort of crime fiction that many writers today want to write , and many , many readers want to read . |
| 17 | Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well . |
| 18 | Several studies , for example , suggest that departmental productivity , in so far as it can be measured , has improved significantly in recent years . |
| 19 | One critic of the Salon d'Automne wrote : ‘ The prize for idiocy this year is retained by M. Picabia … while M. Kupka has turned to sphericism , ’ while Hourcade felt that Picabia had ‘ pushed a bad theory as far as it can go . ’ |
| 20 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |