Example sentences of "[adv] far as [pers pn] have [be] " in BNC.

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1 So far as we have been able to see people need to be able to identify those social situations which are distinct in their culture .
2 And that does n't help us much because , so far as we have been able to ascertain , the Zikr does n't appear to have bought a bottle of perfume in his life . ’
3 So far as she 'd been concerned they had been just friends .
4 Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ .
5 By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank .
6 ( One may however ask after the nature of men in so far as it has been men rather than women who have created these pictures of the world and of the ‘ place ’ of woman within it such that they should have needed to construct such a misogynist picture . )
7 Plenty was built by the Frasque , who did not call it that , or anything else , so far as I have been able to discover .
8 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 .
9 As far as they have been able to check , they believe that they are the only two Scottish CAs in partnership together in Australia , but we would be interested in hearing from anyone who thinks that they might have a claim to that title .
10 And , as far as I had been able to judge , the feeling was pretty mutual .
11 As far as I have been able to discover , the first papers in French West Africa to be owned and controlled by Africans were Le Cri Nègre and Le Phare du Dahomey .
12 The view of these two organizations , as far as I have been able to discover , runs something like this .
13 He suggests that ‘ as far as I have been able to grasp the concept , to be ‘ staff ’ means to have authority without having responsibility .
14 As far as I have been able to find out , it has no specific connection with Bristol but is named after Nonsuch Palace , which was built in Surrey near Hampton Court .
15 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 .
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