Example sentences of "far [conj] [pers pn] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's why I ended up doing science and I 've got this far so I ca n't be bad at it . |
| 2 | And it is true that whereas on the whole Pound managed his amorous career with more decorum than Shelley , still the pattern was , so far as we can discern , not very different . |
| 3 | We in the Royal Air Force , if you ask for our professional advice , are convinced that we will require manned aircraft as far as we can see to supplement the missile in both the offensive and defensive roles . |
| 4 | An executive said : ‘ We 're trying as far as we can to ensure that our business operates normally . |
| 5 | The syllabus includes the ‘ core ’ of chemistry drawn up by the Standing Conference on University Entrance in 1983 , and as far as we can tell is also likely to include the new chemistry core under construction by the School Examination and Assessment Council . |
| 6 | If time permits , we would be happy to accommodate you as far as we can . |
| 7 | As far as we can tell , no work has yet been done on the psychology of the train-spotter . |
| 8 | However , results of an experiment published just before Christmas show in clearer perspective than ever before that quantum theory holds good as far as we can tell . |
| 9 | So far as we can tell , the men-folk ruled in every sphere ; but it may be that the further one got from the world of high feudalism the less of a slave the woman became ; it is certainly true , in a rather different way , that the Norman Conquest brought both a more complete feudalism and a fall in the status of women . |
| 10 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 11 | The English fyrd was used in the Danish wars , but only later , so far as we can tell , as a local militia in emergencies . |
| 12 | As far as we can tell , babies regard their mothers as an extension of themselves , yet not quite connected , rather like those fingers and toes which , although attached , are happened upon in surprise . |
| 13 | But as far as we can tell he does n't seem to have any brain damage . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ As far as we can gather , only Anthea Darnell and Meryl Armitage . |
| 15 | However , we can help you to help yourselves by letting you know what this deadline is ; the date up to which we can pretty much guarantee your ad 's inclusion ( as far as we can ever guarantee anything ) . |
| 16 | He was not , so far as we can tell , putting forward the idea as a serious theory : his purpose was to tell a good story . |
| 17 | This is the grim side to his thought : the circumstances of her ‘ taking ’ the veil were , so far as we can see , irrelevant . |
| 18 | In terms of professional development the UK lags somewhat behind , having no fully recognised body of interpreters ( although such an organisation may now be close to recognition ) and , as far as we can make out , only one full-time interpreter in the whole country . |
| 19 | Even so , the starting-point , so far as we can find one , was polytheistic . |
| 20 | We also judge work performance by the quality of the product ( in so far as we can assess this ) and by the work style of the performer . |
| 21 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 22 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 23 | And in so far as we can use gender imagery for these things the Logos is a masculine principle … . |
| 24 | Certainly , so far as we can see , he took no steps to promote the interests of his younger son , apart from not insisting that he take the cross . |
| 25 | " As far as we can determine there were three men , two with clubs who did the beating and one other , " Tom Rooney said quietly . |
| 26 | We do indeed manipulate and control our surroundings , in so far as we can , by way of things as causal rather than as effects . |
| 27 | So far as we can be aware the infant , in its earliest stages , can not distinguish between " self " and " non-self " , or between its own perceptions and sensations and the phenomena which trigger them . |
| 28 | Studying the semantic features of texts is inevitably rather an intuitive business , and in so far as we can quantify such features at all , it often seems best to attach them to grammatical labels ( eg " colour adjectives " , " adverbials of place " ) , and to use some arbitrary standard of measurement , such as number of words . |
| 29 | Then , holding everything else constant so far as we can , we form a judgement about what will most probably happen . |
| 30 | The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances . |