Example sentences of "in [adv] far [subord] it can " in BNC.

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1 Hinshaw makes a distinction between the ‘ cognitive ’ and ‘ evocative ’ contents of knowledge suggesting that the ‘ truth ’ , at the semantic and syntactic levels , can be considered in isolation from the social basis of knowledge in so far as it can be shown to be cognitive rather than evocative .
2 Human behaviour enters social reality in so far as it can be given a meaning .
3 Yet , in so far as it can be pinned down , this is the sort of crime fiction that many writers today want to write , and many , many readers want to read .
4 Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well .
5 Several studies , for example , suggest that departmental productivity , in so far as it can be measured , has improved significantly in recent years .
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