Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] so far as " in BNC.

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1 According to the Theory of Relativity , time passes more slowly for objects moving very swiftly ; thus a spacecraft moving at close to the speed of light would take more than 100,000 years to cross our Galaxy , as observed by the rest of us , but only a few years so far as its crew were concerned .
2 I slip into the pitfall of subjectivity with trepidation , but observing my fellow patients , I seemed to discern a distinct pattern so far as stress was concerned .
3 A key player so far as the passage of the bill is concerned will be the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee , Congressman Rostenkowski , and then in the upper house , Senator Benson .
4 Claimants for social welfare provisions have not always been in a good position so far as procedural protection is concerned .
5 it is a good theory so far as it goes .
6 Is that a hot area so far as the arts are concerned ?
7 The auditors owe a duty of care to the shore share holders collectively , not to individual share holders or what are called stake holders , employees for example , er nor do auditors have a general duty so far as the public interest is concerned .
8 In contemporary British society this link is accepted to a greater degree so far as the care of children and motherhood is concerned , though social attitudes still reveal some of the same ambivalence .
9 When sexual activity results from obsession in a parent with offspring simply because they are offspring ( a rare situation so far as I know ) psychotherapy may rectify deviant desire .
10 Most are concentrated on Medway wing , but not all , and there is no sense of a special regime so far as they are concerned .
11 The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " .
12 It is , however , an important paragraph so far as an understanding of the scheme of section 82(1) is concerned .
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