Example sentences of "so far [conj] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 2 | we 'd , we 'd tie , we 'd tie a wire round the pole and heave that up you see so far but you could n't pull the chain up . |
| 3 | C : I think that there 's some hope now with the Labour party because they 've — um — compromised themselves politically so far that they would n't … |
| 4 | Around eighty galleries have confirmed so far that they will be attending more than this time last year and the organisers are presenting a positive front in the light of the art market recession . |
| 5 | And in so doing , we must , of course , be aware of the risk of setting a standard which goes so far that it would mean that others — for example , the senile or the mentally handicapped , whom we would wish to treat if they were ill — were also included by it . |
| 6 | How the Mini Master will be regarded by Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority remains to be seen , but the CAA has indicated so far that it will expect pilots flying the aircraft to be holders of a multi engine rating , which currently costs around £1,200 to obtain on a conventional twin aircraft . |
| 7 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 8 | It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company . |
| 9 | But forswear all attacks upon cities and towns , upon travellers going their way without ill-thought towards you , all provocation of all kind against the borders , and avoid , so far as ye may , any meeting with any English soldiery . |
| 10 | And it is true that whereas on the whole Pound managed his amorous career with more decorum than Shelley , still the pattern was , so far as we can discern , not very different . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The English fyrd was used in the Danish wars , but only later , so far as we can tell , as a local militia in emergencies . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This is the grim side to his thought : the circumstances of her ‘ taking ’ the veil were , so far as we can see , irrelevant . |
| 16 | Even so , the starting-point , so far as we can find one , was polytheistic . |
| 17 | We also judge work performance by the quality of the product ( in so far as we can assess this ) and by the work style of the performer . |
| 18 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 19 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 20 | And in so far as we can use gender imagery for these things the Logos is a masculine principle … . |
| 21 | Certainly , so far as we can see , he took no steps to promote the interests of his younger son , apart from not insisting that he take the cross . |
| 22 | We do indeed manipulate and control our surroundings , in so far as we can , by way of things as causal rather than as effects . |
| 23 | So far as we can be aware the infant , in its earliest stages , can not distinguish between " self " and " non-self " , or between its own perceptions and sensations and the phenomena which trigger them . |
| 24 | Studying the semantic features of texts is inevitably rather an intuitive business , and in so far as we can quantify such features at all , it often seems best to attach them to grammatical labels ( eg " colour adjectives " , " adverbials of place " ) , and to use some arbitrary standard of measurement , such as number of words . |
| 25 | Then , holding everything else constant so far as we can , we form a judgement about what will most probably happen . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The problem with it , so far as we can see , is that if the political system is democratic and the state is relatively neutral then how is it that anyone could use the system in such a way as to ensure that it permanently advantaged them to the exclusion of other actors and interests in the system ? |
| 28 | Footnotes in plenty have been added to Dodd , but his pattern remains a fair summary of the early preaching so far as we can reconstruct it . |
| 29 | er you know so far as we can get that erm and I 'll then give you a description of how the theory er predicts your er preferences for behaving in particular ways , would work out . |
| 30 | Who ( or what sort of audience ) must the implied addressee(s) be , so far as we can tell from the passage itself ? |