Example sentences of "[noun] so [adv] [conj] [noun] was " in BNC.

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1 WP Yes , but South Korea started from a nil base so far as industrialisation was concerned and with labour costs not much above peasant-subsistence level .
2 It sounded as if he needed another pair of hands for the trip ahead — which was another reprieve so far as Robbie was concerned .
3 Only in small things so far but Dexter was sure , thinking back to the taut image of the man sitting on his sofa the previous night , that he was lying about bigger things as well .
4 I slip into the pitfall of subjectivity with trepidation , but observing my fellow patients , I seemed to discern a distinct pattern so far as stress was concerned .
5 The churchyard had emptied , the wedding-carriages had rolled away , taking their fragile gaiety with them to another world so far as Cara was concerned .
6 ‘ He was a soldier , you know , ’ she had said , podding peas so rapidly that Sally-Anne was full of awe for such expertise , pea-podding being difficult , she had discovered .
7 She walked from the herb garden so rapidly that Meryl was unable to utter another word .
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