Example sentences of "far [conj] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ But the market is 4.5pc down on the year so far and it looks as though the light end of the market might not yet have bottomed out . ’ |
2 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
3 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
4 | After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms . |
5 | Director of education Ian Reid said : ‘ We have amalgamated and closed schools and cut administration back as far as we dare although we need more staff to implement all the changes . |
6 | The few models which have been developed to date may have been correct as far as they go but are clearly incomplete . |
7 | He was jealous of Florian , she accepted , but she could take little comfort or encouragement from the knowledge , except in so far as it meant that he was n't ready to put an end to their affair quite yet . |
8 | This is true , of course , in so far as it means that no contemporary authors were going to write stories about a single murderer being exposed when lawlessness was rife and human life generally seen as of little account . |
9 | Indeed , the passage in Megarry on The Rent Acts , at pp. 386–387 is wrong , in so far as it suggests that there may be a right in a landlord to re-enter peaceably , in the circumstances of this sort of case , between an order for possession and execution of the order by the bailiff . |
10 | When you are ready , go back as far as you want and we will pick it up from you . ’ |
11 | as far as I know but |
12 | And as far as I know that that was the erm most erm sort of financially effective |
13 | As far as I know that score still stands . ’ |
14 | No she is n't here , as far as I know or care she 's in the West Indies . |
15 | There are no proposals either in er draught directive form or before this house on that matter as far as I know and certainly er if that were to be the proposal it would be objected to strenuously on this side of the house . |
16 | erm , I shall be there as far as I know and in the meantime have a word with mum and dad if they 're free |
17 | And they had fostered a girl because they could n't have any children of their own as far as I know and and , ah they she 's a com , a complete horror ! |
18 | One last matter please erm , so far as I understand that you 've not yet drafted the separate staff requirement for reconnaissance , I beg you pardon , reconnaissance equipment for Eurofighter two thousand . |
19 | The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton , a 65-year-old spinster of the parish of St Matthew 's in Paddington , London , and Darren Wilkes , aged 10 , of no particular parish as far as he knew or cared . |
20 | He also maintained his interest in collective consumption in so far as he argued that a successful urban social movement must articulate a demand for that kind of state-provided facility . |
21 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
22 | Gazzer leaned over as far as he dared and gave her a hand , holding on to her arm while she helped Simon to hoist himself up . |
23 | Jack crept up as far as he dared and then froze . |
24 | Lou Duva , co-trainer of Holyfield , might have been cranking the hype handle too far when he said that this evening 's fight might be a once in a lifetime affair . |