Example sentences of "[adv] far as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this ‘ nature ’ that caused Nathan to act as the factory supervisor — ‘ a good guy ’ so far as the workers were concerned ; and allowed Horace the seniority , as ‘ a front-office man . ’ |
| 2 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 3 | In so far as the interview is a critique of Thatcherism — and that is not as far as might have been supposed from the headlines in yesterday 's papers — it is misplaced . |
| 4 | . 35 Coventry … 6 SO far as the ratings are concerned , Leicester 's Lethal Weapon 2 is in the process of becoming a smash hit . |
| 5 | In so far as the actions since 1979 have politicized areas hitherto relatively immune to such considerations they provide pretexts for a future Labour government to intervene in these spheres . |
| 6 | A thorough and detailed biography of Arthur Henderson is also badly needed ; the recent short studies by F. M. Leventhal and Chris Wrigley add little , at least in so far as the events of 1931 are concerned . |
| 7 | Callinicos ' criticism of the ‘ postmodern ’ hypothesis contains a range of emphases , the three principal ones of which are : First : advocates of the postmodern in art ( which attains uncommon prominence in so far as the ‘ postmodern ’ is powerfully underwritten by a claimed distinction from Modernism ) , tend to misread the modern and arrogate its defining characteristics to their own period . |
| 8 | ‘ In so far as the patient was being phased off this treatment , ’ he had begun , pointing with the back of his pen to certain entries on Commander Barnwell 's chart , ‘ it would be technically correct to say that there has been a minor error . ’ |
| 9 | Growth in earnings per share is the key short-term measure so far as the City is concerned . |
| 10 | But , so far as the Exercises goes , all of this is underplayed . |
| 11 | The range of permissible investments , for instance , is defined by statute in so far as the settlement makes no provision ; but , even within the limits of investment allowed by statute or settlement , a trustee may incur liability by want of due care in exercising his discretion . |
| 12 | The Christian view of life , death and afterlife as a continuum not only supplied a happy ending to the human story , but could also ‘ justify God 's ways to man ’ , in so far as the good man would be rewarded for a well-spent life , even if it seemed to have been dogged by misfortune . |
| 13 | This is another example of constructive liability , and it is particularly inappropriate here , in so far as the law is aiming to produce a ‘ ladder ’ of offences graded in terms of relative seriousness . |
| 14 | So far as the artistic , literary , and intellectual culture of the Roman world is concerned , that was rapidly , and on the whole smoothly , absorbed by late Roman Christianity . |
| 15 | This is , of course , a time of smokescreens so far as the Masters is concerned and to hear some of the Europeans talk over the last few days , they appear to be in need of the psychiatrist 's couch as much as anything . |
| 16 | Certainly , in so far as the problems and needs of the disadvantaged areas are concerned , a more task orientated approach is required if measures are to be successful . |
| 17 | So far as the Grand Junction Canal company itself is concerned , it is all a matter of inference and speculation . |
| 18 | So far as the enforcement of school attendance is concerned , increasing attempts are being made to control poor attendance from the fringe of the legal system and outside it . |
| 19 | So far as the curriculum was concerned , the policies and practices of many LEAs were seen as detrimental to quality . |
| 20 | So far as the National Curriculum is concerned , the Act ( in section 3(1) ) provides for foundation subjects , in two categories : |
| 21 | So far as the curriculum is concerned , equality of access to ‘ benefits , facilities and services ’ means that in relation to subject choices and the way they are taught , stereotypical assumptions about the respective roles of men and women in society should be avoided . |
| 22 | As both crimes carried an automatic death sentence , along with many others , so far as the prisoners were concerned , any specific charge was purely academic . |
| 23 | Allowing for exaggeration , it is nevertheless true to say that the Emperor lived up to the Idea in so far as the re-ordering of Paris was concerned . |
| 24 | Because Burma is not a rich country the potential for racketeering is limited , and shrugged off , For those Burmese who want one foot in the material world , at least so far as the occasional bottle of Scotch is concerned , the black market exists . |
| 25 | So far as the timber structure is concerned , you may not understand it , but it should look regular and well formed . |
| 26 | So far as the grounds for issuing such warrants were concerned , these were first for the detection of serious crime , and , secondly , for safeguarding the security of the state . |
| 27 | So far as the security of the state was concerned , two principles were stated to govern the granting of warrants . |
| 28 | So far as the latter issue was concerned , to succeed the applicant had to show that the decision was ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ . |
| 29 | So far as the Commissioner is concerned there was a fear that the Prime Minister 's power of censorship could lead to an ‘ extremely thin ’ annual report being laid before Parliament , with little opportunity for informed debate . |
| 30 | Thus , so far as the Tribunal is concerned , Parliament accepted a privative clause of a kind which is unprecedented in modern English law , purporting to do what no Parliament has done before — it has given an administrative tribunal the power to determine its own jurisdiction . |