Example sentences of "so [adv] as i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So far as I know there is no definition of what constitutes a Cabinet Committee and , as the practice has grown , I believe there may be among the 70-odd Committees in the book some with less title to be treated as Cabinet Committees than some of the 700-odd interdepartmental committees of which we have no detailed information at all . |
| 32 | Bernal was of course deeply committed to the Communist ideal and was never , so far as I know , privy to any of the atomic bomb developments during or after the war . |
| 33 | ‘ Not so far as I know . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ Not so far as I know . |
| 35 | So far as I know , there is nothing anywhere which is like the sound Welsh people make when they talk about L loyd who lives at L landudno ! |
| 36 | Dealt with me himself , and never told anybody so far as I know . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ So far as I know , ’ Miss Honey went on , ‘ nobody else in the history of the world has been able to compel an object to move without touching it or blowing on it or using any outside help at all . ’ |
| 38 | But if by some extraordinary chance you should one day wander into a forest and catch a glimpse of a Minpin , then hold your breath and thank your lucky stars because up to now , so far as I know , no one excepting Little Billy has ever seen one . |
| 39 | So far as I know there is at present only one such scheme operating in London … and I would hope that it would form a pattern of similar schemes in other parts of London . |
| 40 | Obviously , the two do not wholly coincide , since the rite de passage is performed once only — no one , so far as I know , ever had to undergo an initiation ceremony twice ! |
| 41 | British and American community studies give the phenomenon of gossip some attention , but there is , so far as I know , no systematic study of gossip as a form of unarticulated female power . |
| 42 | When sexual activity results from obsession in a parent with offspring simply because they are offspring ( a rare situation so far as I know ) psychotherapy may rectify deviant desire . |
| 43 | There is , so far as I know , no solid evidence for any of these beliefs ; nor is there much to show that the family is , in fact , changing in its significance within society or in its psychological implications for child upbringing , albeit that pressures upon it are increasing just as they are upon individuals by reason of the increasing complication and tempo of life in Western society . |
| 44 | All this is trite law and the contrary has , so far as I know , never been argued in any case which has come before the courts under the Act of 1977 . |
| 45 | No one , so far as I know , has ever questioned such a suspension on the ground that it could not be done unless he is given notice of the charge and an opportunity of defending himself and so forth . |
| 46 | But so far as I know they have never been reprinted , and I have let slip from my memory now the name of the author ( a salutary warning against undue pride for those of us writing today ) . |
| 47 | The lady has , so far as I know , done no harm in the Lords — no one having seen her except on one occasion when she went there to lunch — and she has yet to make her maiden speech . |
| 48 | There 's been one young girl killed so far as I know . " |
| 49 | He is not , so far as I know , having it off with anyone and I certainly am not , more 's the pity in a sense , though to be honest I 've never felt less inclined in my life . ’ |
| 50 | So far as I know my disappearance was never discovered by the authorities . |
| 51 | Lithium batteries are even better , but so far as I know are only available in PP3 size . |
| 52 | His father was killed in the war and , so far as I know , his mother is his only living relative . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ Having one 's hand kissed does not , so far as I know , oblige one to marry a man , ’ she answered shortly . |
| 54 | Not so far as I know . |
| 55 | But he was n't a friend of Hilary 's , not so far as I know . ’ |
| 56 | So far as I know , however , there have not been any comprehensive studies of the rise and fall of various economic groups in more recent times , nor has there been an attempt to provide , on a broad scale , an economic interpretation of political events in the twentieth century , although there are of course many elements of such an interpretation in recent Marxist debates about modes of production , in the analyses of development and underdevelopment , and in the theories of industrial and post-industrial societies . |
| 57 | Indeed , he might have been perturbed to think that I was diverting so much energy towards his defence ; but , so far as I know , he was ignorant of these interventions of mine , as I never showed him the letters or alluded to them . |
| 58 | He brought our conversation to an end by alluding once more to the past ; and in comparing the difference between his present achievements and the tribulations that had led up to it ( though he did not put it quite like that ) , he appeared to coin on the Spot an Epigram which , so far as I know , he never committed to print but of which there are echoes in The Family Reunion . |
| 59 | The real point of this story is that , so far as I know , Eliot never read the Hardy Preface , because when I referred to it again about twenty-five years later , he gave the impression of not knowing about it . |
| 60 | So far as I know , she never gave a coherent account to anybody of her recollections , and there is no reason why she should have done ; but just as any scrap of information about Shakespeare — from anybody , a servant , amanuensis , ostler , for instance — would be of the greatest interest , so a testimony from one so close as Miss Hinson would have been worth having . |