Example sentences of "[adv] far as [pron] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as their work goes it has point only as a mean to these . |
| 2 | According to Marsh and his colleagues ( 1978 ) police intervention is often welcomed by the hooligans in so far as their presence provides a safety valve and prevents the aggro from going too far . |
| 3 | Jane Cox was 21 , attractive , single and hardworking in so far as her condition allowed . |
| 4 | The adulterer is the cause of this in so far as his/her act has allowed a superhuman being to attack the spouse . |
| 5 | ‘ What I could n't see was how the life and death of Someone Else ( whoever he was ) 2000 years ago could help us here and now — except in so far as his example helped us . ’ |
| 6 | We compromised on borrowing the Land Rover for positioning , followed by walking as far as their enthusiasm took them . |
| 7 | Beating drums and sticks and piping , with dancers and tumblers leaping ahead of them , the grave band of three old men and four younger ones in cloaks of feathers and aprons of leaves had approached him and they had parleyed , as far as their inability to communicate in language allowed . |
| 8 | And yet , she felt sure now , it was this that was in her mother 's mind because , as far as her mother knew , her cousin was childless . |
| 9 | I soon stopped , since as far as my mother knew there was nothing to laugh at and she was looking at me . |
| 10 | From the yet more gloomy expression on his normally lugubrious face it was evident that he had resigned himself to her companionship at least as far as his hotel perched up far above the sea . |
| 11 | But , as far as his memory went , the black markings were new . |