Example sentences of "in so far as he [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 He was grappling to define love itself , in so far as he had experienced it and now understood it .
2 Moreover , there seems to be an element of moral righteousness in Bukharin 's attitude , in so far as he sought to clothe what could be considered necessary violence with an aura of positive good , thereby turning necessity into a virtue .
3 He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste .
4 In so far as he argued for the separation of economics from politics for the purpose of analysis , in a theoretical examination of the Soviet economy he seemed to be following in the footsteps of Marx .
5 He also maintained his interest in collective consumption in so far as he argued that a successful urban social movement must articulate a demand for that kind of state-provided facility .
6 Not , she told herself , that she was at all interested in Benedict Beckenham , except in so far as he fitted into this household .
7 Weber differed , however , in incorporating rather more of the Marxist analysis into his own theory , in so far as he recognized social classes — and more generally , various ‘ constellations of interest ’ in the economic sphere as important bases of domination , in his intense preoccupation with the growth of bureaucratic domination , and in the concentration of his analysis upon the different ways in which domination can make claims to ‘ legitimacy ’ and so constitute itself as a moral authority .
8 Turner did the grand tour , certainly ; he learnt a lot in Italy , but he learnt equally a great deal from English artists and from Dutch artists and in so far as he used the grand tour , and used what Rome and other countries had to offer , that 's what every artist did , every European artist , not just the English .
9 He was , in so far as he underestimated the implications of one major disanalogy : he had no law that was to natural selection as the Newtonian inverse square law ( with proportionality to mass products ) was to gravitational attraction .
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