Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as it [vb past] the " in BNC.

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1 Any word could follow any other word , just so long as it matched the phonetic input description .
2 So long as it invested the money in buses , that was all right .
3 Meanwhile , on 20 July , at the request of the applicant 's solicitors , Price had sworn an affidavit repudiating his Swedish evidence in so far as it implicated the applicant .
4 Price was then called to give evidence in person on behalf of the applicant , and he again repudiated his evidence before the Swedish court in so far as it implicated the applicant , on the ground that his evidence had been obtained by pressure exerted upon him by officers of the Swedish and Norwegian police .
5 However , as I have recorded , Price gave evidence before the magistrate in the course of which he retracted his Swedish evidence in so far as it implicated the applicant .
6 He however submitted that the magistrate was obliged to look at the whole of the evidence emanating from Price and that , since Price had retracted his Swedish evidence in so far as it implicated the applicant , that evidence must be regarded as worthless and wholly unreliable , and so incapable of forming the basis of a committal .
7 It was Mr. Newman 's submission that the matters to which regard should be had in the present case were ( 1 ) the lapse of time between the commission of the alleged offences and the request for extradition , and ( 2 ) the fact that the accusation against the applicant was contrary to the interests of justice , in that it would lead to the trial of the applicant in Sweden on the basis of the record of Price 's evidence , despite the fact that Price had subsequently retracted that evidence in this country in so far as it implicated the applicant .
8 He himself emphasized his concern to record the good and bad that was being done in his own day , especially in so far as it concerned the Church , and he noted among the principal actors , kings , catholics and heretics .
9 But this was a ‘ bourgeois ’ phenomenon only in so far as it reflected the hegemony of bourgeois respectability .
10 Nevertheless , in so far as it addressed the complex issue of home-school relationships in multi-ethnic contexts , it was an important initiative which deserves to be extended in some form .
11 In so far as it justified the oracle , the story of Herodotus was first broadcast from Delphi .
12 Victorian Social Darwinism was still alive in the late 1950s and , in so far as it shaped the vocabulary of ‘ maintaining social standards ’ used by the supporters of immigration control … it contributed to a climate of opinion favouring immigration control .
13 The court quashed the Minister 's decision on the ground that he should have considered the school 's application in the wider context and not only as it affected the particular school .
14 Protectionist policies , designed to deal with unemployment , temporarily ended the rule of the Conservative Party at the end of 1923 just as surely as it helped the Conservative Party to political dominance in the 1930s .
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