Example sentences of "so far as they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primal father of the horde is masterful , self-confident , independent and absolutely narcissistic ; other people are loved only in so far as they serve his needs . |
| 2 | With pragmatism truth and usefulness become fused : ‘ ideas … become true just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relations with other parts of our experience . ’ |
| 3 | Schegloff has made studies of the rules of conversation in so far as they govern who speaks when , and how we know when it is our turn to speak . |
| 4 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 5 | Academics can still write evaluative criticism of course , and in so far as they do they are producing the kind of criticism practised by men of letters . |
| 6 | Their understanding of social action is a ‘ realist ’ one , in so far as they believe there to be general , deep-lying mechanisms affecting human conduct which are triggered in different ways by contingent social circumstances . |
| 7 | Ministers of the Crown will no longer be responsible for the internal workings of such organisations , accept in so far as they fulfil their contractual obligations . |