Example sentences of "[adv] far as [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Suppose also that it is somehow possible to place it in a space capsule in which it can survive , so far as can be seen , for ever , without any external aid . |
2 | It may be simply that no document has survived in which Aethelberht was required to acknowledge Aethelbald as his overlord , but so far as can be seen there was no restriction on the power of the Kentish king to grant land to whomsoever he wished . |
3 | Moreover , so far as can be seen a Northumbrian hegemony continued to prevail between the Humber and the Forth and across to the west , above and below the Solway from the Mersey to the borders of Strathclyde , at least until the mid-eighth century . |
4 | Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was . |
5 | This book is not concerned , however , with might-have-beens but with the facts as they were , so far as can be told . |
6 | So far as can be judged , the water supply was so poor that by September 1908 a Consulting Engineer was brought in to examine the problem although nothing further is recorded on the subject . |
7 | In every case , so far as can be judged , property located inside the city was carefully distinguished from what was owned elsewhere , and so here alone there is no ambiguity . |
8 | Hezarfen , in his listing of the Seyhulislams , as distinct from his discussion of the history of the office where he takes a slightly different view , departs significantly in only one respect from Katib Celebi ( at least in so far as can be judged from the one manuscript ) , namely in his treatment of Abdulkerim and Molla Arab . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The original document no longer exists , as far as can be determined , but in November 1948 David Stirling wrote a confidential memorandum on the origins of the regiment he founded , on which much of the following section is based . |
11 | As far as can be gathered from the limited archaeological research so far done , there was a move from the older timber cottages to new stone-walled housing . |
12 | As far as can be ascertained this happened near to the position of the guide pulley sited on the lower embankment . |
13 | As far as can be ascertained , it has always been a corn mill , mainly grinding corn from local farms for local consumption and in later life , rolled oats for local farmers . |
14 | He said that the cause was ‘ incorrect assembly , as far as can be ascertained ’ . |
15 | Talking to the locomotive owners and train organisers direct , as far as can be ascertained , the following trains have been agreed and authorised although not all of the departure times and routes have been fully confirmed . |
16 | The committee made no comment but as far as can be ascertained , no action was taken ; more urgent matters required attention . |
17 | The regular adherents of the congregation are about 100 ; the average attendance from 150 to 200 , and the number of members as far as can be ascertained about 25 , but this can form no criterion of what the congregation may become under a regular and thorough ministry . |
18 | There is a simple reason for its relative anonymity As far as can be ascertained the future of Cotherstone cheese appears to be in the hands of one lady , And she refuses absolutely to communicate with the media . |
19 | As far as can be made out , systems of fingerspelling have always come about by hearing invention . |
20 | However , it should perhaps be made clear that for most people with schizophrenia , their brains appear completely normal as far as can be made out when looked at under the microscope . |
21 | The British picture is different ; rapes , robbery and assault are predominantly intra-racial as far as can be analysed , except for racial attacks on blacks . |
22 | As far as can be assessed , there are about six comic postcards featuring the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
23 | States that ‘ the essential characteristics of Green Belts is ( sic ) their permanence and their protection must be maintained as far as can be seen ahead ’ . |
24 | As far as can be seen , they were not involved in their lord 's personal life . |
25 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
26 | Penda 's invasion of the territory of the eastern Angles in 635/6 or 636/7 , when he slew in battle both King Ecgric and the ex-king , Sigeberht , who had been brought out of his monastery to lead the army with Ecgric ( HE 111 , 18 ) , terminated , as far as can be seen , the exercise of royal power among the eastern Angles by the direct descendants of Raedwald ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , and made the repression of Penda 's ambition imperative if Oswald were to reconstruct the paramount position which had been Eadwine 's . |
27 | As far as can be seen from aerial photographs and minor excavations , most of the main streets seem to have been lined with strip buildings , which are usually interpreted as shops and workshops . |
28 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
29 | The office of Mufti held by Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan was , as far as can be judged from the sources , merely an adjunct to their other offices . |
30 | Their performance , as far as can be judged at this early stage , matches and in some areas surpasses that of their conventionally trained colleagues 300 km away across the Rift Valley . |