Example sentences of "[adv] far as [pron] can tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as we can tell , the men-folk ruled in every sphere ; but it may be that the further one got from the world of high feudalism the less of a slave the woman became ; it is certainly true , in a rather different way , that the Norman Conquest brought both a more complete feudalism and a fall in the status of women . |
| 2 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 3 | The English fyrd was used in the Danish wars , but only later , so far as we can tell , as a local militia in emergencies . |
| 4 | He was not , so far as we can tell , putting forward the idea as a serious theory : his purpose was to tell a good story . |
| 5 | The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances . |
| 6 | Who ( or what sort of audience ) must the implied addressee(s) be , so far as we can tell from the passage itself ? |
| 7 | On the eve of the crisis , most politicians , political commentators and — so far as we can tell — citizens remained sceptical that the sixty-seven year old General would ever play a major role in politics again . |
| 8 | So far as one can tell from the scanty evidence available they had been something short of that . |
| 9 | ‘ And , so far as one can tell , he regretted it ever after . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Mostly , so far as I can tell , they turn a blind eye . |
| 11 | Out of this confusion emerge two major problems that , so far as I can tell , are here to stay . |
| 12 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 13 | And so far as I can tell , you know , from looking at my children 's schooling , the girls seem to be good at maths in the early stages . |
| 14 | The syllabus includes the ‘ core ’ of chemistry drawn up by the Standing Conference on University Entrance in 1983 , and as far as we can tell is also likely to include the new chemistry core under construction by the School Examination and Assessment Council . |
| 15 | As far as we can tell , no work has yet been done on the psychology of the train-spotter . |
| 16 | However , results of an experiment published just before Christmas show in clearer perspective than ever before that quantum theory holds good as far as we can tell . |
| 17 | As far as we can tell , babies regard their mothers as an extension of themselves , yet not quite connected , rather like those fingers and toes which , although attached , are happened upon in surprise . |
| 18 | But as far as we can tell he does n't seem to have any brain damage . ’ |
| 19 | Since 1860 , as far as we can tell , three items that were formerly alternants have been reclassified as categorical [ u ] items ( Patterson , 1860 ) ; thus , the speed of transfer has been very slow , and the set as a whole has been quite resistant to change . |
| 20 | The murders , as far as we can tell , are motiveless ; the killers are now dead , burned to a crisp both of them . |
| 21 | As you may know the public seat on Snowhill has recently been removed from its base , as far as we can tell by vandals intent on stealing it . |
| 22 | The explorer born 100 years too late , variously described as intrepid and bampot , is now back from his 1,350 mile Antarctic trek , about two-thirds of the weight he was when he started , bushy-bearded , staring of eye , and , as far as we can tell , happy . |
| 23 | Mr de Klerk 's main criterion , as far as one can tell , in deciding who is released first is to attempt to minimise the chances of mass political gatherings giving way to violence and , the great nightmare , loss of government control . |
| 24 | As far as one can tell from his letters , he was pleased with it although it did not sell . |
| 25 | Other experimenters have used different forms of apparatus with layouts that seem very unlikely , as far as one can tell , to induce such strategies . |
| 26 | All but two of the books reviewed were opposed to testing , as far as one can tell from the reviews , and were praised for their position . |
| 27 | As discussed above , in Mehmed II 's time there were , as far as one can tell , basically three grades of medreses above the 40-akce level : and the Sahn . |
| 28 | The list of such marked words is not a particularly long one : for the relevant parts of the body we have vit , coilles , con and cul which correspond in meaning , and , as far as one can tell , in tone , to current English prick , balls , cunt and arse ; as actions foutre ( fuck ) or occasionally alternatives such as corber ( lay ) ; as bodily excretions merde and pet ( shit ; fart ) . |
| 29 | In fact , nobody anywhere — as far as I can tell — has questioned any aspect of this nonsense . |
| 30 | His death is a sin offering , he gives his life for us , he dies for us , but , as far as I can tell , the New Testament never answers this question : To whom is the sin offering given ? |