Example sentences of "so far [conj] [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room .
2 In so far as one so young and beautiful could look morose , Irene Charial gazed out morosely over the taffrail of the Ariadne .
3 In so far as one can single out a starting-point in Althusser 's exposition , it is Marx 's critique of homo oeconomicus .
4 It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile .
5 So far as one can tell from the scanty evidence available they had been something short of that .
6 So far as one can judge , the women 's resistance movement was formed towards the end of June 1910 , that is while talks were still inconclusive , and before the events reported above led the management of Neill 's and Morrison & Gibb 's to sign the memorial .
7 In so far as one regards sexuality as a biological means towards the reproductive end I think homosexuality can be regarded as deviant : it is a deviation from the heterosexual norm of most living things .
8 His attempts failed , and he came to the conclusion that the best that could be achieved was to specify , so far as one could , which observation statements were implied by which non-observation statements ( see the preface to Carnap , 1967 , and Quine , 1969 , p. 77 ) .
9 Quine says of this theory that ‘ one has no choice but to be an empiricist so far as one 's theory of linguistic meaning is concerned ’ ( Quine , 1969 , p. 81 ) .
10 It is an undistinguished spit of land , barely afloat so far as one can see , but it has in its time hosted some very high-level exchanges of civilities and even persons between the two countries .
11 Others would admit , indeed require , that higher education should embody rationality , and in so far as one can believe or practice that , it becomes a cultural pattern .
12 Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me .
13 ‘ One intervenes to protect competition , to ensure so far as one can that competition continues to exist in the marketplace .
14 So far as one can understand it , ’ says Freddie .
15 They uniformly show young , narrow-shouldered , and in so far as one can see through the draperies , narrow-hipped , flat-chested women with long pale hands which have clearly never done a stroke of work .
16 ‘ And , so far as one can tell , he regretted it ever after . ’
17 Merulo 's Canzoni … fatte alla Francese ( 1592 , 1606 , and 1611 ) treat their originals , so far as one can trace them , with great freedom of keyboard texture .
18 Language is not just the means of communication in literature , but , in so far as one can say literature has a content , language in all its opacity is also the content of literature .
19 In so far as one concentrates on manufacturing output , the fall was in the earlier part of this period .
20 In fact , in so far as one can detect a firm line in his early Algerian policy , it was a policy which aimed to achieve association — i.e. cooperation between France and a more autonomous but not fully independent Algeria .
21 Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly .
22 The Hepburns proved hardly more reliable , but did keep a hold on the castle and — so far as anyone could keep a hold on such a region — the lordship of Liddesdale .
23 Far more interesting is whether the hon. Gentleman and his Back-Bench colleagues support Labour 's new nuclear defence policy — so far as anyone can understand it .
24 The letter of the law was observed in so far as none of the names of the actual raped women were mentioned .
25 So there was a stage where we did say , this scheme is going so far and anybody that buys a house out with that area , they 're free to apply for grants .
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