Example sentences of "far [subord] the [adj] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ As far as the anti-Rottie thing goes , I think you just get hardened to it .
2 We shall instead suggest ( 40 ) , where the fact that the arrowhead passes through the square bracket is intended to show that the minor property does not simply qualify the entity as a whole , but the fact that it does not reach as far as the round bracket shows that the adjective is not a sense-qualifier : ( 40 )
3 In ‘ action ’ he includes ‘ all human action , when and in so far as the acting individual attaches subjective meaning to it ’ .
4 When Weber remarked initially that he would consider ‘ all action when and in so far as the acting individual attaches subjective meaning to it ’ , he invited the comment that there are all sorts of subjective meanings .
5 Finally , as will be seen below , a restrictive view towards the use of companies may be a disincentive to expansion in so far as the corporate form permits greater flexibility in the raising of outside finance .
6 This presents a major obstacle , in so far as the would-be acquirer needs to be able to calculate the attitude of a target company 's owners to an offer , given that the management will often be uncooperative .
7 The sixth-century episcopate can not , therefore , be seen as a body independent of royal patronage : in so far as the seventh-century evidence allows any assessment to be made , there was no dramatic change .
8 So far as the whole personality does not fall victim to the pressures either of the external environment or what one might call the internal environment of its own parts — in the form of various lusts and obsessions — it achieves its only conceivable goal , that of prosperous possession , in the fullest manner , of its own nature .
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