Example sentences of "[adv] far [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His arms were raised above his head but not raised so far that he showed any fear either . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | He also maintained his interest in collective consumption in so far as he argued that a successful urban social movement must articulate a demand for that kind of state-provided facility . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The spoken word is his chosen form of communication , and in so far as he learns anything , he absorbs knowledge through conversation . |
| 9 | Not , she told herself , that she was at all interested in Benedict Beckenham , except in so far as he fitted into this household . |
| 10 | He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste . |
| 11 | He was grappling to define love itself , in so far as he had experienced it and now understood it . |
| 12 | The former , in so far as he considers explanations at all , inclines to those that stress the purely mechanical relations between events . |
| 13 | So far as he knew , no photograph had ever been taken of Horowitz . |
| 14 | So far as he knew , everything that had been transcribed had been lodged with Jackson 's , in copy . |
| 15 | By now Dr Neil was in an agony of desire , the loved one in his arms , so near and yet so far — But not so far as he thought , for McAllister suddenly wanted more from him than he was giving . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Turner did the grand tour , certainly ; he learnt a lot in Italy , but he learnt equally a great deal from English artists and from Dutch artists and in so far as he used the grand tour , and used what Rome and other countries had to offer , that 's what every artist did , every European artist , not just the English . |
| 18 | ‘ The Emperor is not your enemy , Deems , except in so far as he stands in the way of your advancement . |
| 19 | The final outcome of the stages of development outlined by Piaget is also utopian , in so far as he links formal operational thought with the structure of the ‘ real ’ world . |
| 20 | He was , in so far as he underestimated the implications of one major disanalogy : he had no law that was to natural selection as the Newtonian inverse square law ( with proportionality to mass products ) was to gravitational attraction . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I have suggested earlier that part of Beccaria 's reputation may have resulted from his glossing over the more unsavoury implications of his views , and the fact that his full programme has never really been put into practice ; but this is not to deny that , in so far as he has been an influence , he has been a relatively benign one . |
| 23 | ‘ In the execution of a letter of request the person concerned may refuse to give evidence in so far as he has a privilege or duty to refuse to give the evidence — ( a ) under the law of the state of execution ; or ( b ) under the law of the state of origin … |
| 24 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
| 25 | In so far as he means the random use of techniques removed from all contact with appraisal , then I think that he is right . |
| 26 | Weber differed , however , in incorporating rather more of the Marxist analysis into his own theory , in so far as he recognized social classes — and more generally , various ‘ constellations of interest ’ in the economic sphere as important bases of domination , in his intense preoccupation with the growth of bureaucratic domination , and in the concentration of his analysis upon the different ways in which domination can make claims to ‘ legitimacy ’ and so constitute itself as a moral authority . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But I think he has told us truly , so far as he knows truth . |
| 29 | Ward said : ‘ He is causing a bit of a headache for us , but he 's been able to get away with it so far because he has been unknown , but it will be increasingly difficult for him if he keeps trying . ’ |
| 30 | That is , as far as he trusts any woman . |