Example sentences of "so far [conj] the [noun pl] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson later admitted that so far as the shipowners were concerned , " It was blow given and blow returned . |
| 2 | So far as the seamen were concerned , the impossible had been achieved . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So far as the Cossacks were concerned , 5 Corps had already considered it necessary to order that force should be permitted . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Security Service thought that Ramsay was unbalanced and suffered from persecution mania so far as the Jews were concerned . |