Example sentences of "so far as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For anyone for whom literary education — like any other — is an exploration of the meanings we have and live by , so far as we do live by meanings , Virgil and Dante are connecting rooms … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With Paula Grey , so far as we know . |
| 5 | In so far as we deal with cyclical fluctuations here , they will be those which were characteristic of an unregulated capitalist economy typical of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | In so far as we consider Bukharin 's theory of equilibrium in relation to his ideas on the theory of capitalist economic crisis we can see that contradiction is a key element in explaining it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 10 | The English fyrd was used in the Danish wars , but only later , so far as we can tell , as a local militia in emergencies . |
| 11 | It is interesting to note that there have , so far as we know , only been thirty-one phyla in all of pre-history ; nine have become totally extinct . |
| 12 | Just in so far as we cause the Government to persecute those who believe in peace , so we may be doing the greatest service … to stimulate the national consciousness in [ the ] direction [ of peace ] . ’ |
| 13 | However , so far as we are concerned the important constituent of the atmosphere is oxygen : without it we would never have come into existence . |
| 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 | So far as we are concerned , this barely matters : although it is likely that ‘ mini black holes ’ , about the size of a subatomic particle , were created by the enormous forces involved in the Big Bang , it is only about now , perhaps 15 billion years later , that these should be beginning to disintegrate . |
| 16 | So far as we 're concerned we started an event for music that was an alternative — I did n't want to listen to Vera Lynn . |
| 17 | This is the grim side to his thought : the circumstances of her ‘ taking ’ the veil were , so far as we can see , irrelevant . |
| 18 | So far as we know they had met only in 1079 , when Eadmer was one of the young monks to whom Anselm talked during his first visit to Canterbury . |
| 19 | The most important of Schleiermacher 's many writings , so far as we are concerned here , are his Addresses on Religion , to its Cultured Despisers ( 1799 ) and The Christian Faith ( 1821/2 ; a second and considerably altered edition appeared in 1830/1 ) . |
| 20 | All of this has been enacted and realised and completed in Jesus himself , and the meaning of sin , so far as we are concerned , is only really opened up at the very place where it is borne and done away with . |
| 21 | The temple at Knossos was , so far as we know , the most ambitious building the Minoans attempted . |
| 22 | Even so , the starting-point , so far as we can find one , was polytheistic . |
| 23 | At the end of the last war he found himself some French creature and went to live with her , and so far as we know , he 's still in France . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In so far as we have evidence about regional comparisons , it points to continuities rather than differences . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Now so far as we are in a position to judge , the information was reliable . |
| 28 | So far as we know , Ptolemy spent his whole life in Alexandria , which is well north of the Earth 's equator , so that he could not see the stars of the far south . |
| 29 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 30 | Secondly , in so far as we are concerned with insider dealing , the practice is analysed within the context of financial conglomerates . |