Example sentences of "so far [conj] [art] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 If you choose a wallmounted fitting , make sure the arm does n't jut out so far that the light is in front of you as this will throw your book into shadow .
2 Because the bottom line so far as a broadcaster 's concerned , or a studio 's , a station 's concerned , is to keep the listeners listening .
3 An answer to this , I shall argue , so far as an answer is possible at all , can be given only through an analysis of experiences from the point of view of the one who has the experiences ; i.e. through a phenomenological analysis of the modes of experiencing .
4 So far as the housekeeping was concerned , Leopold had to admit that Constanze was doing a good job , and seemed to be extremely economical .
5 Technically it does not : the right is still upheld in so far as the jury are told that no inferences can be drawn from silence in the face of allegations .
6 This is another example of constructive liability , and it is particularly inappropriate here , in so far as the law is aiming to produce a ‘ ladder ’ of offences graded in terms of relative seriousness .
7 If the unreasonableness produces voidness that means that so far as the law is concerned the clause has never existed : it may well then be possible to claim in tort for the restitution of money or goods although no specific action can be brought on the basis of the contractual force of the clause .
8 ‘ In so far as the patient was being phased off this treatment , ’ he had begun , pointing with the back of his pen to certain entries on Commander Barnwell 's chart , ‘ it would be technically correct to say that there has been a minor error . ’
9 So far as the debt was concerned , the first success was in converting most of the short-term , high-interest credit which had stemmed from the wartime issue of government bills to a funded 5 per cent stock in 1784 – 5 .
10 But , in so far as the subject was addressed , the dominant view was that by integrating modern industry into the communal structure Russia could enjoy its benefits without enduring proletarianization .
11 Compliance strategy allows justice to be done in the process of negotiating conformity , whereas in a sanctioning system justice is done ( so far as the enforcer is concerned ) when someone is let off ( Reiss and Bordua , 1967:37–8 ) .
12 This was a most unusual indication of the strength of public feeling , for it was apparently motivated , so far as the Ministry was concerned , by the desire to ‘ steal the thunder ’ of the Communist Party and prevent that body from obtaining the credit for the popular enthusiasm .
13 You need special cards to get in even if you are a visitor but so far as the computer is concerned that did not have the same security ? ’
14 The first one is what exactly the duty is so far as the auditor is concerned .
15 So far as the housewife is concerned , time limits imposed by factors outside her control mean that the pace of her work is too fast for each task to get the attention she would like to give it .
16 So far as the Commissioner is concerned there was a fear that the Prime Minister 's power of censorship could lead to an ‘ extremely thin ’ annual report being laid before Parliament , with little opportunity for informed debate .
17 In so far as the anchoress is seeking Christ lost in the soul , she is like the disciples in the boat on the sea of Galilee lost in the storm ( Matthew 13:44 ) who woke the sleeping Jesus to save them from destruction : But underlying the cry of the anchoress is the constant calling of God which alone enables her cry : " oure lord and all whilk wilen herken to hym ( 50.323a. – 122 ) .
18 This fertile region , hollowed out and enriched so far as the soil is concerned by glaciation , was once known as the Pays tea Quatre Vallées , and Arreau was its capital , being another of the small centres which flourished in the years when the trans-Pyrenean trade with Spain was at its height .
19 So far as the Board is aware there are no other holdings of 3 per cent or more of the share capital of the Company .
20 So far as the curriculum is concerned , equality of access to ‘ benefits , facilities and services ’ means that in relation to subject choices and the way they are taught , stereotypical assumptions about the respective roles of men and women in society should be avoided .
21 So far as the curriculum was concerned , the policies and practices of many LEAs were seen as detrimental to quality .
22 In so far as the goal is to extract a ‘ clean ’ data set of ordered clones and probes , but which is still large enough to minimize the number of contigs , a high initial redundancy implies that less additional effort is needed to close any remaining gaps when all available probes are used and all contiguous clones are ordered .
23 Many people besides farmers have problems caused by this er tax that , whatever one thinks er about it so far as the system is concerned , really when you look at it more closely it 's the details that have been so badly thought out .
24 So far as the performer is concerned , he has the defence that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that a programme involving the use of the offending material would be included in a cable broadcast , or that the circumstances in which such material was included would be such that racial hatred would be likely to be stirred up .
25 There must be sent to the Central Authority of the state of destination two copies of the Request and of the document to be served ( either the original or a copy ) 75 ; so far as the Request is concerned this requirement for duplicates is always applicable , but pairs or groups of States may agree to dispense , as between themselves , with the need for duplicate copies of the document to be served .
26 So far as the malais were concerned , it also made them like Martinho more , in the political rather than personal sense .
27 In so far as the interview is a critique of Thatcherism — and that is not as far as might have been supposed from the headlines in yesterday 's papers — it is misplaced .
28 Growth in earnings per share is the key short-term measure so far as the City is concerned .
29 Designed to nip in the bud any incipient growth in villages , it was successful , so far as the city was concerned , probably because it did no more than sanction the existing situation , even though in the fifteenth century the trade had flourished at Hartlebury , which remained an important centre of the specialised craft of fulling .
30 The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so .
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