Example sentences of "[adv] far as you [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , your murder still needs to be , in so far as you can contrive it without becoming ridiculous , attention-grabbing . |
| 2 | The voters , so far as you can judge from Greek opinion polls , would like to choose an economically responsible government in the coming election , and may even be willing to react responsibly to what it asks of them . |
| 3 | what was Mr attitude to spending on national advertising in so far as you could work it out ? |
| 4 | PP : As far as you could tell , were there any other factors which contributed to her death ? |
| 5 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 6 | Then came the snow and she had to stay in and watch from the window how it piled up against the water butt , how it lay like a blanket along the sills , how it changed the distance from bluey brown to white as far as you could see . |
| 7 | As far as you could see there was a great undulating cushion of varied greenery , mile upon mile of leaves . |
| 8 | The land folded in on itself as far as you could see — green and brown hillsides sinking down in repetition , marked by the dark masses of trees and hedges . |
| 9 | First , a murder should be , as far as you can make it so , attention-grabbing . |
| 10 | This is taking a sense of the particular about as far as you can go : man evolving as harmoniously with his landscape as the mayfly nymph evolved in harmony with its stream . |
| 11 | As you go through these , try to aim for clarity and smoothness , not just speed ( and if you have a 21-fret guitar , obviously only play up as far as you can go ! ) . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's it feel like , as far as you can reach ? ’ |
| 13 | Thus Sir William Trumbull , when he was sent as English ambassador to Paris in 1685 , was told that : You shall constantly correspond with our ministers in other foreign courts , for our better service , and your mutual information and assistance in your respective negotiations ; and you shall also maintain a good correspondence and intercourse with all the other ambassadors , envoys and ministers of princes and states in amity with us , and as far as you can penetrate into the designs of their respective superiors , and of what you can discover of this nature you shall give us a constant account by one of our Principal Secretaries of State . |