Example sentences of "so far [conj] [pos pn] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court has already held , in its judgment of 23 November 1989 in the Torfaen case , that national rules governing the opening hours of retail premises reflect certain political and economic choices in so far as their purpose is to ensure that working and non-working hours are so arranged as to accord with national or regional socio-cultural characteristics , and that , in the present state of Community law , is a matter for the member states . |
| 2 | However , in so far as their purpose is purely redistributive , it seems difficult to provide a rationale for price subsidies or in-kind transfers rather than cash transfers , and yet these latter forms of assistance are extremely important components of public expenditure ( see , e.g. Brennan and Pincus 1983 ) . |
| 3 | My interpretation of the functional significance of these grades began by following Lack 's ( 1954 ) view that the primary adaptations of birds , so far as their dispersion was concerned , were to ensure an adequate food supply . |
| 4 | In other words , a child with an MLU which falls below the bottom of this range is relatively unusual in so far as her MLU is lower than about 85 per cent of ordinary children . |
| 5 | So far as her father was concerned , Molly did n't know what to call him . |
| 6 | So far as its origin is concerned , we shall take it as a factor in organic evolution , and shall content ourselves with pointing out certain more primitive features of which it is the natural development . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | East Anglia has a peculiar history also , so far as its landscape is concerned . |
| 9 | Speaking at a conference on the ‘ Future of the Irish Country House ’ ( 26 February ) , the Prime Minister of Ireland , Albert Reynolds made a statement of profound importance about how Ireland has come to terms with its Anglo-Irish past , at least so far as its architecture is concerned . |
| 10 | But in so far as his criticism is based on the right to freedom of expression and its particular relevance where a local or central government authority is concerned , I consider that aspect in the next section of this judgment . |
| 11 | Politically , socially , and economically , the year is ending calmly , so far as our country is concerned . " |
| 12 | Reverting for a moment to the last chapter , we saw that we could answer the question of how it is that subsequent generations could acquire the superego organization produced by the primal trauma of human civilization , but only is so far as our answer was limited to archaic hunting societies like those in central Australia . |
| 13 | The Bishop : ‘ I think it is a very balanced and very clear statement of how we should be living so far as our sexuality is concerned . ’ |
| 14 | In so far as our religion is our vision of the world , if that vision comes no longer to seem ethical , then it will be discarded . |