Example sentences of "so far as [pron] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So far as their work goes it has point only as a mean to these .
2 According to Marsh and his colleagues ( 1978 ) police intervention is often welcomed by the hooligans in so far as their presence provides a safety valve and prevents the aggro from going too far .
3 Jane Cox was 21 , attractive , single and hardworking in so far as her condition allowed .
4 The duel in which Lermontov was soon to die is said to have been patterned , so far as its arrangements went , on the one in the novel : the outcome , however , was perceptibly different .
5 The adulterer is the cause of this in so far as his/her act has allowed a superhuman being to attack the spouse .
6 ‘ What I could n't see was how the life and death of Someone Else ( whoever he was ) 2000 years ago could help us here and now — except in so far as his example helped us . ’
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