Example sentences of "[adv] far as [pers pn] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the left , the attitude of Moscow and the Third International , in so far as they had any influence at all in Spain before the war , was to encourage Popular Front democracy and discourage revolution . |
| 2 | The Planning Advisory Group thought it unlikely that there would be any more , and ‘ in so far as they show less detail ( eg town map primary school and minor open space allocations ) it may be less ’ . |
| 3 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Decisive victory for either side : that is what Turkish policy , in so far as it has any power , has been striving to prevent . |
| 6 | This request gives rise to an action for the coheirs to obtain Titius ’ share of the estate in so far as it exceeds that sum . |
| 7 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | Er , as far as I know all the forms that were allocated to me have been versioned and distributed out to everybody , so I should have lots of version forms . |
| 10 | He went back to Nuremberg in 1946 to testify , but as far as I know that 's the only time he ever left the country . ’ |
| 11 | And as far as I know that 's the only coverage I 've seen personally of it . |
| 12 | Er as far as I know that 'll be okay . |
| 13 | As far as I know that 's , that 's going out as well , erm in fact he went over to Dublin to get a bit of training erm idea in pilot . |
| 14 | Similar challenges have been organised previously in London , Canterbury etc but as far as I know this one is a ‘ first ’ for Edinburgh . |
| 15 | Never had an occasion to use , well the only time I 've used a newspaper as far as I know this afternoon when I emptied the bag . |
| 16 | That is , as far as he trusts any woman . |