Example sentences of "[adv] far as could be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some late and inebriated stage of the proceedings , Ramsey Everett made his way , alone so far as could be established , into an adjacent sitting-out room . |
| 2 | Samuel had now read all passages from the Lion 's work relevant to Rochester Castle , and enumerated every single friend that Dickens had brought there , as far as could be traced . |
| 3 | As far as could be foreseen , they were to retain responsibility for the nuclear deterrent after ballistic missiles had taken over from manned bombers . |
| 4 | ‘ What remained of the car was examined but , as far as could be told , there was nothing wrong with the brakes or the steering and the tyres were nearly new . ’ |
| 5 | Not Terry Place , who , as far as could be judged , had never met any of the Pitts except the girl , and that on a day that nearly killed him . |