Example sentences of "so far [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some extreme theorists , such as Eric Midwinter , carried such arguments so far that he held it wrong to enter children from deprived backgrounds for any kind of examinations , since they were bound to fail . |
| 2 | His arms were raised above his head but not raised so far that he showed any fear either . |
| 3 | William says that he wants to win and then hopefully look towards the world championship and then the next Europeans … it 's been a good year so far so he hopes it ends like that anyway |
| 4 | Byrne , 31 , whose goals have contributed to victories over Port Vale , Oxford , West Ham and Chelsea along the Wembley road , enjoyed his biggest celebration so far when he stooped to head home from close range at the end of the most incisive move of a tight match . |
| 5 | It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company . |
| 6 | He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste . |
| 7 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 8 | Nevertheless it seems to me that Gironella is right , or that he is right in so far as he is using ‘ mestizo ’ to claim for his work a Mexican , not a European identity . |
| 9 | He governs , so far as he is able to , on borrowed time because none of the groups contending for power yet feels strong enough to make a grab for it . |
| 10 | The spoken word is his chosen form of communication , and in so far as he learns anything , he absorbs knowledge through conversation . |
| 11 | Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing . |
| 12 | Throughout the whole of life , Man is happy or unhappy in so far as he discovers the right admixture for his life of these quite distinct manners of using energy . |
| 13 | In so far as he could limit expenditure , Napoleon III did his best . |
| 14 | So far as he knew , no photograph had ever been taken of Horowitz . |
| 15 | The former , in so far as he considers explanations at all , inclines to those that stress the purely mechanical relations between events . |
| 16 | So far as he was concerned , I could become a Muslim or a Jew , provided I got good School Certificates . |
| 17 | So far as he 's concerned , he shot you , you fell in the river , and your body was swept away . |
| 18 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
| 19 | Moreover , there seems to be an element of moral righteousness in Bukharin 's attitude , in so far as he sought to clothe what could be considered necessary violence with an aura of positive good , thereby turning necessity into a virtue . |
| 20 | In so far as he argued for the separation of economics from politics for the purpose of analysis , in a theoretical examination of the Soviet economy he seemed to be following in the footsteps of Marx . |
| 21 | Since his surplus stock may be in keen demand he may not be able to supply you — but he can at least point you in the right direction by suggesting alternative sources , ones that have proved themselves so far as he is concerned . |
| 22 | These were cant phrases so far as he was concerned and they missed the point . |
| 23 | He was grappling to define love itself , in so far as he had experienced it and now understood it . |
| 24 | In so far as he means the random use of techniques removed from all contact with appraisal , then I think that he is right . |
| 25 | A lot of people ran away with the idea that they were Pacifists , but so far as he was concerned that was not true . |
| 26 | There was n't a girl in the village he could n't … but when he thought about it , there was nothing in his statement , so far as he could remember , that said anything about … |
| 27 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 28 | So far as he was concerned , a great danger had been averted , and the matter was now closed , but it had a sequel which we may now follow . |
| 29 | Anselm acquiesced in this explanation and waited for peace , but then , long after it had been apparent to others , it dawned on him that he must either do the job or give it up — preferably , so far as he was concerned , the latter . |
| 30 | He used to say that he did not want to listen to a man like Beethoven , whose stormy music told his hearers all about himself and his troubles , but rather to hear the pure beauty of musical form , which so far as he was concerned reached its acme in Mozart 's classical perfection . |