Example sentences of "so far [conj] [art] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as the housekeeping was concerned , Leopold had to admit that Constanze was doing a good job , and seemed to be extremely economical . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Wilson later admitted that so far as the shipowners were concerned , " It was blow given and blow returned . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So far as the seamen were concerned , the impossible had been achieved . |
| 8 | As both crimes carried an automatic death sentence , along with many others , so far as the prisoners were concerned , any specific charge was purely academic . |
| 9 | Decision : the aggravating features of the offence were the age of the victim ( 61 ) , the fact that as a taxi driver he was vulnerable and an easy target ; the isolated location in which the offence was committed ; the degree of violence and the fact that it continued after the theft had been completed ; the fact that the victim had been left , so far as the offenders were aware , unconscious , and the fact that two men were involved , and an implement may have been used . |
| 10 | When their reports of what they were thinking about were examined , it was found that these were frequently bizarre , commonly involved complex stories with visual imagery and , so far as the experimenters were concerned , were indistinguishable from dream reports . |
| 11 | It is not obvious , in reviewing this system , exactly where the element of indirection came in , except in so far as the Residents were instructed to maintain at all costs the ‘ prestige ’ of the emir . |
| 12 | So far as the curriculum was concerned , the policies and practices of many LEAs were seen as detrimental to quality . |
| 13 | At some stage a suggestion arose from both sides — principally Damerell of BUPA so far as the doctors were concerned and , strangely enough , also from Barbara and the DHSS — that the consultancy strike was so damaging that a mediator should be sought . |
| 14 | That put the cork in the bottle , so far as the Danuese were concerned . |
| 15 | What I found , though , was that what appeared to be a very good erm system from an ideal point of view was actually terribly hard to cope with so far as the teachers were concerned . |
| 16 | So far as the malais were concerned , it also made them like Martinho more , in the political rather than personal sense . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So far as the Cossacks were concerned , just as much as for the British , the overriding question was not whether certain individuals should be excluded from repatriation because they held non-Soviet passports , but whether the various formations of " Cossacks " as a whole should or should not be repatriated . |
| 20 | So far as the Cossacks were concerned , 5 Corps had already considered it necessary to order that force should be permitted . |
| 21 | But so far as the economy was concerned , lack of reach was a much bigger problem than lack of speed . |
| 22 | In the cases that followed ( ie the disposal of the whole of the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 3 ) ; a conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 4 ) ; and the conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to a third party ( Chapter 5 ) ) , once the husband had disposed of his interest no further tax considerations applied so far as the husband was concerned ( unless there was an element of gift involved in the conveyance not at arm 's length and the husband died within seven years , thus bringing in a charge to inheritance tax ) . |
| 23 | Of course , if and in so far as the power was derived from the Crown as the fountain of justice : see , in a different context , Lincoln v. Daniels [ 1962 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 24 | Indeed , in so far as the left was urban , secularist or even militantly anti-clerical ( see chapter 14 below ) and both contemptuous of rural ‘ backwardness ’ and unappreciative of country problems , the peasantry might still be full of suspicion and hostility towards it . |
| 25 | So far as the Yek were concerned any man who was not of the race of the True people — the Yek , the N'pani , the Ch'noze — was an alien , barely human , and as such was forever suspect . |
| 26 | The new economic climate of the late sixteenth century brought advantages and disadvantages so far as the funeral was concerned . |
| 27 | It was this ‘ nature ’ that caused Nathan to act as the factory supervisor — ‘ a good guy ’ so far as the workers were concerned ; and allowed Horace the seniority , as ‘ a front-office man . ’ |
| 28 | Here , by contrast , the father was himself to be the principal debtor and the transaction , so far as the plaintiffs were concerned , was to be completed by their solicitors . |
| 29 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 30 | The third is ‘ ideal-typical ’ , as when we invoke microeconomic theory in order to model the rational choice by the agent ( in so far as the action was zweckrational ) . |