Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] far [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Furthermore s. 2(4) European Communities Act 1972 provides that any Act of the Westminster Parliament shall be presumed not to conflict with EEC legislation , and will be given effect only so far as it does not conflict with the EEC legislation . |
4 | An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem . |
5 | 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 ’ . |
6 | So as far as I know there are no plans . |
7 | ‘ Only as far as they know she had n't seen a doctor . ’ |
8 | I like you very much , Shelley , but I will come only as far as you ask me to . ’ |
9 | LADY DAVERS : You 'll break her spirit quite , brother , you 'll carry your passion as much too far as I have done . |
10 | Just as far as you want to go , then , and no further . ’ |
11 | Great as far as it goes , but where are the mighty affirmations of life that soul once was ? |
12 | So that was all right as far as it went . |
13 | This was all right as far as it went . |
14 | Now as far as they know their money is coming . |
15 | This was , of course , true as far as it went . |
16 | It may well As far as I know it 's it is only Mrs er who has said , I I 'm sorry to er to say this Mrs , you are the only person who has said that you wish to produce additional representations . |
17 | Well as far as I know |
18 | Well I said , well as far as I know , I said nothing , they 're not celebrating anything . |
19 | Well as far as I know . |
20 | One miracle to praise God for is that everything that has been sent out to me I have received ( at least as far as I know ) . |
21 | ‘ Well , none of us has got enough money to go into a high-class nursing home — at least as far as I know — so of course the wind was up all of us . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | erm , I shall be there as far as I know and in the meantime have a word with mum and dad if they 're free |
24 | When they have moved forwards as far as they feel they want to go they then leave one of the bottles , place both their hands on the other and have to get back without touching the the floor with any part of their body . |
25 | If she walked twice as far as she rode , how many kilometres did she ride ? |
26 | Bill the dog always seems to walk at least twice as far as I do , running ahead for a while and coming back to check that I 'm following before he dives down a hole after rabbits that he never catches . |
27 | Said club chairman Byron Hughes : ‘ We have not been told anything officially so far and I hope we would be the first to hear . ’ |
28 | Yet as far as we know , these pinpricks to the memory that she was queen of Scots did not seriously upset her ready assumption that her mother would do the job for her . |
29 | Well we have n't sent anybody yet as far as I know . |
30 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |