Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] so far [conj] " 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 was obvious at this stage that the race was going to develop into the best of the day so far and when Lofthouse moved ahead again with one lap to go , Robert had it all to do .
3 ‘ When You 're A Boy ’ is one of the neatest LPs of the year so far and , it must be said , causes an awful lot of Bangles products to look like Barbie with a Rickenbacker .
4 It is the most important meeting of the year so far as the organisation of the council is concerned .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Lawyers are adamant about the need to remain independent of the state so far as licensing for practice is concerned .
8 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 .
9 He had asked if what was wanted was a detailed account of the whole course of the investigation so far or a brief statement of what was known .
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 .
14 Fred Couples , the Americans ' man of the season so far but who did not play last week , has gone back to the top amid a wholesale reshuffle .
15 Conditions are likely to be the heaviest of the season so far and the side — the pack particularly — that controls the ball and makes fewer mistakes could carry the day .
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