Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] far as [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 | 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 . |
| 28 | Well we have n't sent anybody yet as far as I know . |
| 29 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |
| 30 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |