Example sentences of "[adv] far as modern [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as modern historians have tried to explain it , it is simply as a continuation of the war of 1173 This however , it was not . |
| 2 | So far as modern alloys are concerned , their names ( eg ‘ copper-nickel ’ , aluminium-copper ’ etc ) often indicate the main ingredients . |
| 3 | ( As far as modern women are concerned , an analogous situation must exist in which the demands of civilization — principally incest-avoidance and respect for the paternal authority — represent a recent and indeed onerous imposition on an earlier instinctual nexus which knew nothing of this , indeed which perhaps was the foundation of that submissiveness to male aggressiveness which still seems to underlie the female sexual constitution . |
| 4 | ‘ My dear girl , I may be moronic as far as modern music is concerned , but I have attended classical concerts in my time . |
| 5 | As far as modern marriages go , 20 years is quite an achievement . |