Example sentences of "far as this " in BNC.
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| 1 | to assimilate the law relating to chattels real and real property , and , so far as this is possible , the law relating to land and movable property ; and |
| 2 | In so far as this tendency brought with it loss of belief in survival , the Evangelicals may be said to have unintentionally contributed to the process . |
| 3 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 4 | Presumably it eventually dies , but that is less important than it seems to us mortals ; as far as this discussion is concerned the end of the cycle is reached when the present organism reproduces and a new generation 's cycle begins . |
| 5 | The effect of these amalgamations , as far as this survey is concerned , has been to put onto the market what must be a large proportion of the original libraries . |
| 6 | In any event , the courts now seem to take a softer line on police practice so far as this can be discerned from the undiscussed elements in cases that reach the law reports for other reasons . |
| 7 | Gets as far as this : Migration of Sperms : ‘ Approximately 400 million sperms are present in each ejaculation … if only 10 per cent of the sperms reach the cervical canal a total of approximately 40 million sperms will have reached this favourable haven . |
| 8 | ‘ As far as this part of the city is concerned , ’ Maidstone went on after the drinks had arrived , ‘ I think I 'm the only resident Englishman . ’ |
| 9 | To be for animal welfare , as distinct from merely being against animal cruelty , is to believe that we have a duty to improve the quality of animal life , by ensuring — so far as this is possible — that other animals are the beneficiaries of what is good for them , not merely that we should avoid being cruel to them . |
| 10 | Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees . |
| 11 | It then compares the costs incurred for control samples with those of action sample clients , and finally examines the most important question as far as this project is concerned : whether those who were sustained at home with project support for six or l2 months after their referral to the psychogeriatrician cost more , less , or about the same to keep at home compared with the cost of institutional care ( taking into account the probability of their being in an institution were it not for the project support ) . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ So far as this court is concerned it must be taken as settled that the proper construction to be given to [ s.14(2) of the Water Act 1973 ] is to exclude liability for escapes in the absence of negligence ’ . |
| 13 | In so far as this political power , as ‘ concentrated violence ’ against the bourgeoisie , is itself an economic force , it is the force which severs the capitalist relations of production , by putting the proletariat in charge of the material and physical framework of production … on the other hand , this same ‘ concentrated violence ’ is partly turned inward , where it is a factor in the self-organisation and compulsory self-discipline of the workers . |
| 14 | We were totally inexperienced — greenhorns — as far as this sort of experience went , lost souls entrapped in a web of intrigue . |
| 15 | ‘ They would n't have come as far as this on their own , he must be driving them . ’ |
| 16 | Anyway , they have not really the transport for a journey as far as this and in any case , they could not spare the time from work . ’ |
| 17 | There is therefore a ‘ trial period ’ as far as this aspect of the new corporation tax return is concerned . |
| 18 | So far as this is no more than a cost-cutting exercise it falls outside the scope of this article . |
| 19 | In so far as this amounts to treating women less favourably than men , because they are women , it is unlawful . |
| 20 | It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this . |
| 21 | The work was done , as it happens , on Sun and DEC workstations running UNIX , but , as far as this paper is concerned , could have been done on any networked computers . |
| 22 | It is not company policy to go as far as this . ’ |
| 23 | As far as this representative model is concerned procedural entitlements are viewed in purely instrumental terms , according to the contribution they may be expected to make to the accuracy of the underlying substantive policy judgments , and since no one has a right to a particular policy outcome , no one has aright either to any particular form of decision-making process . |
| 24 | And , possibly even more important for the employee 's long-term security , the employer should provide assurances on the employee 's future with the company as far as this is known . |
| 25 | So far as this bundle of interconnected criticisms is concerned , at least two distinct questions can be asked . |
| 26 | Independence , in so far as this entailed freedom from obligation to a politician , was thus restricted to men with independent wealth and few dependents , but for most freeholders the friendship of a politician was a necessity at some point in their lives . |
| 27 | There is one poem in which the I dominates to a remarkable extent and which , since it has been read literally , might seem an exception to my argument , namely 62 : If one reads only as far as this point , or reads the rest of the poem inattentively , one might indeed take this as an attack by the poet on his own narcissism . |
| 28 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |
| 29 | The Interim Committee reached the decision on 26 February 1948 that UNTCOK should adhere to the original intention in so far as this could be accomplished ; elections would be supervised in the south but nothing could be done about the north . |
| 30 | An American air intelligence report in February 1950 summarised the trend in so far as this could be ascertained . |