Example sentences of "of the [noun] so far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourth , with the likely acquisition of nuclear weapons by at least some additional states in the next few decades , the need for some clear rules of the road so far as nuclear weapons are concerned may actually increase . |
| 2 | It is the most important meeting of the year so far as the organisation of the council is concerned . |
| 3 | ( b ) On the other hand the courts will not carry a literal construction of the articles so far as to defeat their obvious purpose . |
| 4 | Counsel for the defenders submitted essentially that the Lord Ordinary had erred in law in concluding that the declaration in the application form was part of a contract between the pursuers and the Alliance Building Society to which the provisions of the act applied , rather than concluding that the declaration was non-contractual in character and accordingly not caught by the provisions of the act so far as applicable to Scotland . |
| 5 | That was the principle of the Yasa so far as the practical application of scientific knowledge was concerned . |
| 6 | This makes little difference to the behaviour of the companies so far as the production of policies and their conduct of business are concerned , but it does impose further constraints on the marketing of what are now clearly seen as forms of saving . |
| 7 | because the verderers … and … the Steward of the Forest made no mention in their rolls of the name of the said page , nor of his delivery , nor of his escape , and the business of the King so far as it relates to the said boy is entirely undone , therefore they are in mercy . |
| 8 | Lawyers are adamant about the need to remain independent of the state so far as licensing for practice is concerned . |
| 9 | Moreover , even at common law a lease which ought to be made by deed but is not will not completely fail of effect , if possession is taken and rent paid under it ; the tenant will be treated as tenant from year to year upon the terms of the lease so far as they are applicable to such a tenancy . |
| 10 | Sheriff Brian Lockhart , who is presiding over the fatal accident inquiry , asked whether the Newton plans , referred to throughout five weeks of the inquiry so far as ‘ single lead ’ had not been considered to be so at the time . |
| 11 | Whether any alternative leadership could have gone further in this direction in the 1960s and 1970s is an open question , but I have argued that it is not useful to conceive of the record so far as merely one of ‘ betrayal ’ . |
| 12 | Gordon H. Wright , very much the driving force of the movement so far as librarians were concerned , declared in a letter to the Library Association Record in September 1961 : |
| 13 | The tenant entering under a void lease became by virtue of possession and the payment of a yearly rent , a yearly tenant holding on the terms of the agreement so far as those terms were consistent with the yearly tenancy . |