Example sentences of "[adj] so far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By March this year the price of sorghum , wheat and maize in local markets had been depressed so far that farmers were complaining . |
| 2 | This is good news for the company since all three markets are relatively recession-proof so far as the demand for their product is concerned , which in turn makes them a fairly buoyant customer base . |
| 3 | If we try to imagine how a mind of superhuman power and reach , but normal so far as the logical processes of its thought are concerned , … would use the scientific method , the process would be as follows : First , all facts would be observed and recorded , without selection or a priori guess as to their relative importance . |
| 4 | These were highly controversial so far as the implementation of the Regulation is concerned , with the British Department of National Heritage fearing an increase by 250,000 in export documents required by the antiquities trade , as all archaeological goods , even of no value , are required to have export papers . |
| 5 | Whatever it might have been , it was short-lived so far as James was concerned . |
| 6 | Second , in the NATO member states , the relative lack of formal restrictions has contributed to the public unease about defence policy , which is associated in people 's minds with threats of all-out nuclear war : far from assisting deterrence this situation is highly corrosive so far as effective defence and deterrence are concerned . |
| 7 | Footnotes in plenty have been added to Dodd , but his pattern remains a fair summary of the early preaching so far as we can reconstruct it . |
| 8 | But the effect left in the mind by this UK and USA reservation is unfortunate : it suggests , rightly or wrongly , that these nuclear powers are prepared to support the most elaborate codification limiting the use of conventional force , but at the same time want to keep their hands completely free so far as nuclear weapons use is concerned . |
| 9 | Radical surgery for prostatic cancer has become acceptable so far as long term functional results are concerned : continence can be maintained or restored in virtually all patients , and potency is maintained in 50–70% of those who are potent preoperatively . |
| 10 | Within the general array of conflicts arising from the pursuit of national interests there was until recently one predominant conflict , crucial so far as the possibility of nuclear war is concerned , between the US and the Soviet Union , and their respective allies or client states , which affected directly or indirectly all international relationships . |
| 11 | Article 6 of the Convention also declared that its provisions did not preclude any of the following so far as the laws of the concerned states or conventions entered into between them allowed : |
| 12 | Businessmen should be allowed to put the position straight so far as the Revenue is concerned and with the minimum of fuss , not ‘ taken to the cleaners ’ by a second Government department . |
| 13 | This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee . |
| 14 | It must be very difficult to be objective so far as the curriculum and level of knowledge of certain subjects are concerned . |
| 15 | that statement is presumed to be exhaustive so far as that matter is concerned . |
| 16 | This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go . |
| 17 | Then , holding everything else constant so far as we can , we form a judgement about what will most probably happen . |
| 18 | What they have grasped is that the other is a dubiously soft touch who knows she 's been lucky so far and feels guilt-ridden enough to want to put something back into the public melting pot which has been kind enough to approve of her . |
| 19 | I think most people would agree that the writings of James Herriot are pretty unimportant so far as book pages are concerned . |
| 20 | The 1936 Act was certainly effective so far as the United Kingdom was concerned . |
| 21 | Days ago she had decided to be good — she was being quite good — but she was only pretending to be good so far and all this appreciation was as yet undeserved . |
| 22 | for the rest , the Keynesian/monetarist debate is unfinished and inconclusive so far as any particular policy by any individual state is concerned . |
| 23 | From time to time a ferret does get bitten by a rat , usually by a female defending her young , but the clash is never fatal so far as the ferret is concerned . |
| 24 | Therefore i if we , if he done that then that paragraph would seem to be slightly and the second point was really to ask if there was any further update on the progress in terms of negotiations in Surrey and East Sussex er in terms of this erm particular by-pass and I know that Mr in particular has been concerned with negotiations and Mrs also erm Mrs is not here therefore as Mr could advise me for us o of where we 're at really , so that we fully understand because obviously the the line of the by-pass is very important so far as any further development is is concerned . |
| 25 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 26 | Mr Williams , a former Wirral councillor said : ‘ The college has been highly successful so far and we have a strong and supportive new governing body to cope with the much increased responsibilities that come with independence . ’ |
| 27 | There were interviews of which oral evidence was given in the inquiry ordered by the visitor but these were found by Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle to be neutral so far as the question at issue falls to be considered . |
| 28 | I prefer to apply the principle that a promise intended to be binding , intended to be acted on and in fact acted on , is binding so far as its terms properly apply . |
| 29 | Brushes with the law : Pretty clean so far but what was in the ciggy in that old News of The Screws photo ? |
| 30 | All these things , if I may say so , are entirely irrelevant so far as Dr Hill is concerned . ’ |