Example sentences of "far [subord] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 31 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | The teaching body in the university , so far as it has not joined ‘ The Thing ’ , has always preferred to accept the philosophy of ‘ The Thing ’ rather than reassert what it well knew was the requisite of any academic society . |
| 34 | ( One may however ask after the nature of men in so far as it has been men rather than women who have created these pictures of the world and of the ‘ place ’ of woman within it such that they should have needed to construct such a misogynist picture . ) |
| 35 | I really think that 's what has made the business stay , and go as far as it has . |
| 36 | The meaning of a given sentence , so far as it has one , is not some determinate characteristic which it carries around with it . |
| 37 | First , where the obligations are non-cumulative , i.e. the obligation of each is to perform in so far as it has not been performed by any other party , the acceptance of some other performance in lieu of the promised performance relieves the others . |
| 38 | A group is coherent in so far as it has a certain continuity in its consciousness , its organisation and its action ; but its coherence also implies that its members do actually support one another in practical ways that are consistent with the objectives of the group . |
| 39 | Decisive victory for either side : that is what Turkish policy , in so far as it has any power , has been striving to prevent . |
| 40 | It is small wonder that Dr Underwood finds it a ‘ little disconcerting ’ as the inference of the inquiry , as far as it has gone at present , would appear to be that it is better for a child to stay in East London sleeping irregular hours in ill ventilated shelters and eating fish and chips than to have fresh air conditions in one of our Camps with regular hours of sleep and plenty of well prepared wholesome food ( in which vegetables fresh from the garden play a large part ) forming a diet balanced in accordance with the best advice obtainable from the Board of Education and others … |
| 41 | But at that time it was n't what you 'd call modern in so far as you had n't got hot water from a sort of gas fir Electric heating . |
| 42 | Assuming , then , that your memory of the principal facts of your subject , so far as you have studied it , is proving adequate , how can you improve the results of study by further techniques ? |
| 43 | But a speck of dirt never hurt anybody , as far as I 've learnt . |
| 44 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 45 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 46 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 47 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 48 | And , as far as I had been able to judge , the feeling was pretty mutual . |
| 49 | Of course , he will have to cope with demonstrations , many of the less sober sort , but , as far as I have heard , he is doing this with massive inscrutability . |
| 50 | As far as I have been able to discover , the first papers in French West Africa to be owned and controlled by Africans were Le Cri Nègre and Le Phare du Dahomey . |
| 51 | The view of these two organizations , as far as I have been able to discover , runs something like this . |
| 52 | Plenty was built by the Frasque , who did not call it that , or anything else , so far as I have been able to discover . |
| 53 | As far as I have seen , the BBC has not even seen fit to broadcast a single programme in his memory . |
| 54 | He was sympathetic , " I do not intend " , he declared , " so far as I have any power , to allow the increase of Chinese seamen in the United Kingdom ports to be continued " . |
| 55 | LADY DAVERS : You 'll break her spirit quite , brother , you 'll carry your passion as much too far as I have done . |
| 56 | He suggests that ‘ as far as I have been able to grasp the concept , to be ‘ staff ’ means to have authority without having responsibility . |
| 57 | As far as I have been able to find out , it has no specific connection with Bristol but is named after Nonsuch Palace , which was built in Surrey near Hampton Court . |
| 58 | I have my eye on the subject ; the hon. Lady 's point is well taken and , in so far as I have control over these matters , I shall make certain that local authorities concentrate as much of their resources on local sport and recreation provision as they should . |
| 59 | Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch . |
| 60 | He was grappling to define love itself , in so far as he had experienced it and now understood it . |