Example sentences of "[prep] so far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The primary purpose was to reduce the costly time spent on oral argument in so far as that was not necessary for the proper determination fo the appeal . |
| 32 | Awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock was spread much more evenly throughout the electorate , and in so far as it did vary it was particularly high amongst those who had recently watched television news or had recently discussed the campaign ( Table 7.7 ) . |
| 33 | Except in so far as they publicized opinion poll findings , television projections of party credibility did not dictate public perceptions . |
| 34 | By the end of the campaign that was no longer so true : awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock had spread much more evenly through the electorate and in so far as it did vary it was particularly high amongst those who had recently watched television news or discussed the campaign . |
| 35 | By themselves the facts are neutral but in so far as moral views about the proper role of the media are based upon presumptions about facts , our empirical findings are bound to have moral implications . |
| 36 | The localized system of medico-pedagogical influence on a child , in so far as it is differentiated in an institution for social education , ought to prevail to the extent that it is in accordance with the natural needs of the child and to the extent that it opens creative prospects for the development of the given structure — biological , social , and economic . |
| 37 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |
| 38 | They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world . |
| 39 | Lenin 's attitude , in so far as it is discernible , will be looked at in a moment , but by this time he was more cut off through illness from daily supervision of affairs . |
| 40 | The Revolution had impinged on their consciousness only in so far as it provided them with land , or took away foodstuffs during War Communism . |
| 41 | In so far as I understand the logic here , heterosexual sodomy is surrogate homosexuality and homosexual sodomy is surrogate heterosexuality — or rather surrogate heterosexual incestuous genital intercourse . |
| 42 | In so far as leaks advertise unhappiness about a line of policy they undermine the principle of collective responsibility , as well as the confidentiality of proceedings . |
| 43 | According to Bulpitt , ‘ in so far as monetarism was associated … with ‘ arms ' length ’ , anti-corporatist government , then … the statecraft ( of monetarism ) must be viewed as less a radical break with the past and more as an attempt to reconstruct it' . |
| 44 | In so far as the actions since 1979 have politicized areas hitherto relatively immune to such considerations they provide pretexts for a future Labour government to intervene in these spheres . |
| 45 | But in so far as such voters may have their partisanship reinforced the trends do present a major hurdle to the election of a Labour government . |
| 46 | A thorough and detailed biography of Arthur Henderson is also badly needed ; the recent short studies by F. M. Leventhal and Chris Wrigley add little , at least in so far as the events of 1931 are concerned . |
| 47 | In so far as Whitehall had considered these matters it had been vaguely assumed that a status quo ante would be established and the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies , the French in Indochina , and the Colonial Office in Burma and Malaya would resume their rightful sway . |
| 48 | In fact it is now widely recognized that some consumption expenditure of this type , in so far as it combats malnutrition , should be considered as equivalent to investment . |
| 49 | In relation to the outside world they imply a wariness to foreign investors , and an ambivalence to foreign aid in so far as investors and aid donors may undermine the autonomy of the government . |
| 50 | Nevertheless it seems to me that Gironella is right , or that he is right in so far as he is using ‘ mestizo ’ to claim for his work a Mexican , not a European identity . |
| 51 | Callinicos ' criticism of the ‘ postmodern ’ hypothesis contains a range of emphases , the three principal ones of which are : First : advocates of the postmodern in art ( which attains uncommon prominence in so far as the ‘ postmodern ’ is powerfully underwritten by a claimed distinction from Modernism ) , tend to misread the modern and arrogate its defining characteristics to their own period . |
| 52 | The Situationist lifestyle ( in so far as it could be imagined ) had some influence on the hippy sub-culture in the late sixties and punk ideology in the seventies in Britain . |
| 53 | But capitalism , after Indian independence , was ( in so far as its effects on the rural population were concerned ) merely following along the paths established by British colonialism and British capitalism . |
| 54 | Often they are questions on which the hierarchy of the family ( in so far as it exists in Britain ) has to be consulted . |
| 55 | ‘ What I could n't see was how the life and death of Someone Else ( whoever he was ) 2000 years ago could help us here and now — except in so far as his example helped us . ’ |
| 56 | But the distinctions between ‘ high ’ and ‘ low ’ in so far as they are doctrinal do of necessity affect devotional practice . |
| 57 | ‘ In so far as the patient was being phased off this treatment , ’ he had begun , pointing with the back of his pen to certain entries on Commander Barnwell 's chart , ‘ it would be technically correct to say that there has been a minor error . ’ |
| 58 | Even the cults of Real Soul , Third World Music and Go Go are forms of regressive rock , in so far as they 're fantasies generated within rock press discourse , and represent a retreat from the studio and technology in search of roots and ‘ raw truth ’ . |
| 59 | But perhaps the best tag for him is ‘ hippy ’ , in so far as that term has become , for post-punk critic and consumer alike , a cipher for pretension , over-inflation and over-reach . |
| 60 | We will not follow Gassendi in much of this , but it will be of interest to note what he says in so far as it relates to experience . |