Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] far as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the new knowledge about economic and demographic change in the past has suggested that it is urgent to reconsider several aspects of the received wisdom about the industrial revolution , notably the assumptions made by contemporaries about declining marginal returns in agriculture ; changes in the occupational structure of the English labour force before and during the industrial revolution ; and , more generally , the viability of the concept itself so far as it connotes a unitary and progressive phenomenon . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The design point is a good one so far as it goes … |
| 4 | I put my tongue out at them as far as it would go . |
| 5 | So far from abandoning our folly , we started pushing it as far as it would go . |
| 6 | ‘ I have no future but my children and my wife will take it as far as it goes . |