Example sentences of "but [adv] far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But so far as natural substances go we are all gazing countrymen . |
| 2 | But so far as I 'm concerned , Fedorov is the more important ; do n't do anything to prejudice our chances of taking him . ’ |
| 3 | But so far as the confusions about to be examined are concerned , it does not solve the difficulty . |
| 4 | A lot of people ran away with the idea that they were Pacifists , but so far as he was concerned that was not true . |
| 5 | Britain 's former world sports car champion Brundle said last night : ‘ I 've heard the stories , but so far as I 'm concerned they 're just that — stories and rumour . |
| 6 | But so far as an answer can be found , it must be sought in the influences to which he was exposed during his exile . |
| 7 | But so far as the problem of holism is concerned , attempts to formulate such a priori defences of individualism are unsatisfactory in two ways . |
| 8 | The promotion was nothing more than a device to give Richard Sharpe some status on the Prince of Orange 's staff , but so far as Sharpe himself was concerned he was still a Rifleman . |
| 9 | It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile . |
| 10 | Of course , intuitionists and emotivists disagree about the availability of ‘ rational intuition ’ ( guided by such principles as that of organic unities ) but so far as the relation between the merely factual and the ethical goes they are at one . |
| 11 | Definitions are difficult , but so far as the workstation market can be defined , Dataquest reckons that it gained only 4.2% in 1992 , following a 14.5% gain in 1991 , and suggests that the slowdown in revenue was down to the overall mix of workstations shipped shifting towards lower-priced systems , and to the poor economic climate in Japan , so that the market crept up to $9,000m . |
| 12 | In terms of conventional undergraduate courses , I see no great pressure for a further extension of the modular pattern , but so far as universities and colleges are concerned , I foresee an explosion in the modular approach at the Continuing Education level . |
| 13 | Quarries and coal-pits were numerous in certain localities , salt-works and glassworks were flourishing , the cloth industry was growing ; but so far as the visible signs upon the face of the country were concerned it was all a mere scratching on the surface . |
| 14 | That ground has not been strongly urged and I leave it out of account , but so far as the other grounds are concerned I am satisfied that there is validity in that criticism and those are matters which ought to have been taken into account and , being matters which are relevant , in my judgment , that is a reason why this appellate court can and should intervene . |
| 15 | But so far as I know they have never been reprinted , and I have let slip from my memory now the name of the author ( a salutary warning against undue pride for those of us writing today ) . |
| 16 | He was immensely well-read on political history in the nineteenth century and more recent times , and he deployed a memory of fantastic accuracy , but so far as I could judge he had read virtually nothing else . |
| 17 | The identification is often questioned , but so far as I can see on no adequate grounds . |
| 18 | It may be simply that no document has survived in which Aethelberht was required to acknowledge Aethelbald as his overlord , but so far as can be seen there was no restriction on the power of the Kentish king to grant land to whomsoever he wished . |
| 19 | Lithium batteries are even better , but so far as I know are only available in PP3 size . |
| 20 | I am open to contradiction , but so far as I understand , the Association as such , played no direct part either in the recent increases in apprentices ' salaries , which were reviewed automatically , nor in the revival of their indenture , which is the result of a tortuous and painfully slow consideration by the Law Society . |
| 21 | But so far as the economy was concerned , lack of reach was a much bigger problem than lack of speed . |
| 22 | But so far as the growing and diversifying domestic market for manufactured goods was concerned , improved road transport was far more important a means of distribution , for here speed and reliability were often sought above cheapness . |
| 23 | Especially from the Seven Years War in 1757 , the wars in which Britain was involved may have been European and dynastic in origin , but so far as her struggle with France was concerned , they were global in breadth . |
| 24 | You need special cards to get in even if you are a visitor but so far as the computer is concerned that did not have the same security ? ’ |
| 25 | But as far as Great Britain Ltd was concerned and building a food industry that would have a major part to play in China and Brazil and other developing countries , I was sorry the shareholders took the view that they did . |
| 26 | But as far as their ideas of women in society goes it has n't changed — that women should stay home and do the cooking . ’ |
| 27 | All sorts of theories to explain the phenomenon have been advanced , but as far as I am concerned , it works . |
| 28 | But as far as I knew , he had no other friends in Salamanca , though he had only to lift his little finger and both men and women would have come running at his bidding . |
| 29 | But as far as ENSA is concerned , the whole thing is on an official level . |
| 30 | And so we were involved a great deal in what we would call ‘ protesting ’ but as far as political activity , that was never my thing . |