Example sentences of "so far [conj] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it is fair to say that erm all the detailed surveys which have been taken have tended to support the findings from the one to fifty thousand map in so far that the various developments proposed to the west and to the south have include quite large elements of grade two land , whereas the se proposals to the north a tend to be grade three land . |
| 2 | So far as the economic aspects of devaluation were concerned , the situation was almost bizarre : there was little understanding of the interaction between devaluation and various parts of domestic economic policy , no careful or considered analysis of the appropriate rate , and no perception of how sterling fitted into the international structure of exchange rates or , more immediately , whether the problem stemmed from the weakness of sterling or the strength of the dollar ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 3 | The first was the extent , if at all , to which the provisions of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 had altered the position , so far as the visitorial functions relating to disbarment were concerned . |
| 4 | Hypocrisy entered this pattern of behaviour only in so far as the bourgeois women were supposed to remain entirely outside the game , and therefore in ignorance of what the men , and women other than themselves , were up to . |
| 5 | As I have often said , I believe that Israel within her pre-1967 frontiers is a democracy , which is not true of many , if any , other states in that part of the world , but she is not a democracy in so far as the occupied territories are concerned . |
| 6 | So far as the actual patterns of support are concerned , one can say more confidently that these have not simply declined from a high point , but have undergone various changes and fluctuations , according to the circumstances under which people lived . |
| 7 | Quarries and coal-pits were numerous in certain localities , salt-works and glassworks were flourishing , the cloth industry was growing ; but so far as the visible signs upon the face of the country were concerned it was all a mere scratching on the surface . |
| 8 | One possibility is that he took the view in this case that the trust inhered in specific property , and that it was payable by the person who had that property , so far as the other conditions for a valid trust were also met . |
| 9 | That ground has not been strongly urged and I leave it out of account , but so far as the other grounds are concerned I am satisfied that there is validity in that criticism and those are matters which ought to have been taken into account and , being matters which are relevant , in my judgment , that is a reason why this appellate court can and should intervene . |
| 10 | So far as the theological attributes accorded Jesus by Christian tradition are concerned , we simply do not know . |
| 11 | David Lodge , in Language of Fiction , adopts a monist stance , arguing that there is no essential difference between poetry and prose , in so far as the following tenets apply to both : |
| 12 | If we try to imagine how a mind of superhuman power and reach , but normal so far as the logical processes of its thought are concerned , … would use the scientific method , the process would be as follows : First , all facts would be observed and recorded , without selection or a priori guess as to their relative importance . |
| 13 | It would be a mistake , however , to dismiss this aspect of the Liberal reform programme as being of no legislative or historical significance , at least in so far as the preceding details have revealed that the different schemes were the result of much thought and argument on the part of a number of interest groups , each of which cared about the transition process , believing it to be critical for the economic and moral welfare of working-class youth . |
| 14 | At the same time , the independent influence of maternal age on still birth ratios can also be observed at each birth interval , at least in so far as the random fluctuations caused by the small number of cases permit observation . |
| 15 | Practically the whole of this vast transformation was effected between 1750 and 1850 , and , so far as the open fields alone were concerned , in the sixty years of George III 's reign . |
| 16 | By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country . |
| 17 | Therefore , so far as the original shareholders were concerned , clause 3 of the shareholders ' agreement did not amount to an unlawful fetter on the company 's statutory power to increase its share capital ; it was simply a personal agreement outside the articles between the shareholders who executed it about how they would exercise their voting rights in relation to the creation or issue of shares , and did not purport to bind future shareholders . |
| 18 | As a consequence , not only is " the family " ( in this restricted sense ) quite a different kind of entity at each phase of its development but , except in so far as the original householders own property which can be transmitted to their children , there is no continuity of the " we " -group beyond the first generation . |
| 19 | Proper evaluation of the scheme requires more than the anecdotal accounts published so far if the true effects are to be monitored and the policy lessons learnt . |