Example sentences of "so far [conj] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roofs were most often not their own : long since , the community had drawn in from its perimeter , sharing its water , its food and its warmth , and distancing itself so far as might be from the walls and the thud of the cannon . |
| 2 | What this mode of association requires for determining the jus of a law is not a set of abstract criteria but an appropriately argumentative form of discourse in which to deliberate the matter ; that is , a form of moral discourse , not concerned generally with right and wrong in conduct , but focused narrowly upon the kind of conditional obligations a law may impose , undistracted by prudential and consequential considerations , and insulated from the spurious claims of conscientious objectors , of minorities for exceptional treatment and , so far as may be , from current moral idiocies . |
| 3 | The statutory scheme for bankruptcy is to be found in the Insolvency Act 1986 and the Insolvency Rules 1986 and has the following main objectives : ( 1 ) to enable the bankrupt 's affairs and dealings to be investigated under the control of the court ; ( 2 ) to provide the statutory machinery for the collection and rateable distribution of the bankrupt 's available assets ( or those assets which ought to form part of his estate ) with a view to satisfying his debts so far as may be practicable ; ( 3 ) to rehabilitate the bankrupt through the process of discharge . |
| 4 | It also aimed to " establish , so far as may be possible , a uniform rate of pay for the same class of worker in all ports and to establish a recognised working day and other regulations in the ports of the world " . |
| 5 | These powers are : ( i ) to make any compromise with creditors or persons claiming to be creditors ; ( ii ) to bring or defend proceedings ; ( iii ) to carry on the business of the bankrupt so far as may be necessary for the beneficial winding up of the estate ; ( iv ) to accept payment in the future on the sale of any property comprised in the estate . |
| 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 | This book is not concerned , however , with might-have-beens but with the facts as they were , so far as can be told . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |