Example sentences of "[adv] far as he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Not , she told herself , that she was at all interested in Benedict Beckenham , except in so far as he fitted into this household . |
| 4 | He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste . |
| 5 | He was grappling to define love itself , in so far as he had experienced it and now understood it . |
| 6 | So far as he knew , no photograph had ever been taken of Horowitz . |
| 7 | So far as he knew , everything that had been transcribed had been lodged with Jackson 's , in copy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As far as he knew , the practice had now ceased . |
| 14 | But of course he did n't have anything to lose , as far as he knew . |
| 15 | Occasionally she would receive a postcard , coloured views usually of London with nondescript , meaningless messages , but as far as he knew she never replied . |
| 16 | Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment . |
| 17 | Mary was the only one of them , as far as he knew , who had ever walked to the village and walked about in the village when she got there . |
| 18 | The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton , a 65-year-old spinster of the parish of St Matthew 's in Paddington , London , and Darren Wilkes , aged 10 , of no particular parish as far as he knew or cared . |
| 19 | As far as he knew , no one had slept in either bed since his mother 's parents died . |
| 20 | He did n't like lying to her but thought it inadvisable to tell her that there was no rescue ship hurrying to the scene and that , as far as he knew , the only other people who knew of the disaster were the NATO HQ in Italy . |
| 21 | It was all over months ago and , as far as he knew , with no hard feelings . |
| 22 | As far as he knew , she had received no training for this type of situation . |
| 23 | He just sat there jiggling his bloody spectacles and saying that as far as he knew it was n't . ’ |
| 24 | and Graham was hardly ever directly involved — he had , for example , only ever met one of Slater 's ( supposedly many ) lovers , at least as far as he knew . |
| 25 | As far as he knew , the MP had not been interviewed about the case . |
| 26 | She had , as far as he knew , no reason to be curious , and therefore no reason to dissemble her curiosity . |
| 27 | But neither he nor Maisie , as far as he knew , had spoken of what had happened at Hasan 's Occultation . |
| 28 | No , he had n't but as far as he knew there was no music on there still . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The bill put forward by President Bush in May 1989 went as far as he thought wise in loading new burdens on to industry . |