Example sentences of "so far as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now well recognized that , in so far as survival in the twentieth century is concerned , men rather than women constitute the weaker sex . |
| 2 | Still , to some extent , every modern economy , at least so far as ownership of some means of production or municipal enterprises or financial institutions are concerned , is a mixed economy . |
| 3 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of the matter , the authorities required from me a birth certificate from Štanjel , a certificate of Italian citizenship , a certificate from a bishop declaring that I was stato libero so far as marriage was concerned , and goodness knows what else . |
| 4 | The publication of a statement of compliance with the code , reviewed by the auditors so far as compliance can be objectively verified , is to be made a listing requirement by the Stock Exchange . |
| 5 | It seems to me that the same reasoning can be applied in this case : in so far as compliance with the rules of the E.E.C . |
| 6 | Having regard to the fact that Parliament has not abolished the privilege against self-incrimination Mr. Tully would be entitled to rely on that privilege if but only if and so far as compliance with the order of Buckley J. would provide evidence against him in a criminal trial . |
| 7 | The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard . |
| 8 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 9 | So far as Government Bills are concerned , it is no exaggeration to say that the substantial task of legislating will have been largely discharged before the Bill is even read a first time in the House in which it is introduced ( Bills may normally be introduced in either House , thence proceeding to the other ) . |
| 10 | But over and above that , most Americans in the late eighteenth century believed that , in so far as government had any impact on their lives , it would be local government , it would be the government of their state and not the remote government in Washington which most people in the eighteenth century had never visited or knew anything about erm or li knew little of what it did . |
| 11 | Septimus Coffin could call on forty years of experience , and in so far as Latin could be made entertaining , he made it so . |
| 12 | In so far as progress towards meritocracy was slow involving a gentle democratisation , as Holmes had argued — this was correct , but another factor must lie in the unmeritocratic aspirations of the local authorities , who administered the educational change . |
| 13 | In so far as fairness is used within the traditional adjudicative framework the balancing involved therein may be different in degree but not in kind to that which has always gone on within natural justice itself . |
| 14 | To put it another way , mothers are by far the most important ‘ significant others ’ so far as housework behaviour is concerned . |
| 15 | World Peace is a most important , er item affecting everyone in the world ; Gorbachov has been one of the foremost politicians , international politicians to , to make a change in , in , er in the world climate , so far as peace is concerned , and therefore that will certainly help him solve his bread and butter problems in the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | So far as education is concerned , it is known that the government has been concerned for some time about an alleged willingness on the part of some teachers to bring the question of homosexuality out into the open in a way that seeks to normalise it as a form of human relationship . |
| 17 | Broadly , we must agree that in so far as education is failing , it is in its failure to provide some children , too many , with the means to lead a satisfactory life when they leave school . |
| 18 | So far as rainwater is concerned , this should discharge cleanly from the roof into an eaves gutter preferably 150mm ( 6in ) in diameter , though 100mm ( 4in ) is acceptable on short runs . |
| 19 | So far as state education is concerned , increasingly free rein is being given to this power . |
| 20 | Seisin is a root of title , and it may be said without undue exaggeration that so far as land is concerned there is in England no law of ownership , but only a law of possession . |
| 21 | The relocations issue , on relocations the County Council uses past land take-up , there will be an element of relocations included within that land take-up figure in so far as land which is vacated on small sites and falls to another use that is that is not counted . |
| 22 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 23 | In so far as history aspires to meaning , it is doomed to select regions , periods , groups of men and individuals in these groups and to make them stand out , as discontinuous figures , against a continuity barely good enough to be used as a backdrop . |
| 24 | in so far as Cooperation is fundamentally opposed to the existing economic basis of society , this meeting of Stratford Cooperators consider it desirable , in order to fully organise and obtain the best results from their political acts , that the advisory committee be instructed to enter into negotiations and act in conjunction with the Trades Council and Labour Representation Committees in the area covered by this Society 's operations . |
| 25 | So far as agriculture is concerned , the production group enables farmers to follow the principles of land consolidation and farm modernisation without the otherwise inevitable forcible retirement or migration . |
| 26 | Auguste repressed the traitorous thought that so far as household management went , she would prove like Mr David Copperfield 's ‘ child-wife ’ Dora . |
| 27 | So far as publicity is concerned , I naturally leave it up to you if it is indispensable … |
| 28 | Also , in so far as price rises are a reflection of business prosperity , they may also favourably affect the opportunity to organise . |
| 29 | I slip into the pitfall of subjectivity with trepidation , but observing my fellow patients , I seemed to discern a distinct pattern so far as stress was concerned . |
| 30 | These subjects slept like short sleepers in so far as sleep efficiency was improved , and deep slow wave sleep was maintained at baseline levels . |