Example sentences of "so far as [pron] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall see in the next chapter , the conference on the third day passed a resolution , which led to the formation of the BDDA , but on the preceding days it was concerned with the Report of the Royal Commission and its recommendations in so far as they affected deaf and dumb people . |
| 2 | All cities , in so far as they became modern cities in the last decades of the nineteenth century , underwent the following changes in the organization of public space : ( 1 ) The development of separate commercial districts . |
| 3 | On the left , the attitude of Moscow and the Third International , in so far as they had any influence at all in Spain before the war , was to encourage Popular Front democracy and discourage revolution . |
| 4 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 5 | I find that an extraordinary statement of policy , because I had always believed that , in so far as it had any justification at all , the Labour party 's commitment to unilateralism , to the closure of bases , to the withdrawal from NATO , was based on a principle — on a deeply held conviction that those things were wrong . |
| 6 | This ‘ immediacy ’ of meaning in oral society he relates to the society 's functional needs , citing Malinowski 's claim that ‘ in the Trobriands the outer world was only named in so far as it yielded useful things ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 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 . |