Example sentences of "so far [subord] [adj] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should proceed beyond the immediate results of experience only so far as legitimate inductions will take us . |
| 2 | His Lordship said the defendants were employed , so far as professional skill could , to relieve the wife from the pressures of her matrimonial situation . |
| 3 | In so far as geographical definitions can be made , we have defined Turkey as a country which could be a member of the Community and for our purposes Turkey is regarded as a European country . |
| 4 | So er , in so far as human nature can be equated with the id , it seems to me , perfectly correct to say that Frob erm , Frob I was going to say , Freud , Freud was a Hobbesian thinker . |
| 5 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 6 | Nationalism may also contain racial elements in so far as particular nations may be regarded as deriving from specific racial stocks ; and biologically defined communities may be regarded as the prime source of cultural characteristics . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , all inductivists would claim that in so far as scientific theories can be justified , they are justified by supporting them inductively on the basis of some more-or-less secure basis provided by experience . |