Example sentences of "[prep] so [adv] as [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change . |
| 2 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 3 | On the left , the attitude of Moscow and the Third International , in so far as they had any influence at all in Spain before the war , was to encourage Popular Front democracy and discourage revolution . |
| 4 | Whatever the law might hold , no one could argue that the methods used by Esmail and Everington amounted to fraud , in so far as they had neither the intention nor the potential to gain an advantage . |
| 5 | Treaty in so far as they applied to all owners , charterers , managers and operators of British fishing vessels and to 75 per cent . |
| 6 | All cities , in so far as they became modern cities in the last decades of the nineteenth century , underwent the following changes in the organization of public space : ( 1 ) The development of separate commercial districts . |
| 7 | As we shall see in the next chapter , the conference on the third day passed a resolution , which led to the formation of the BDDA , but on the preceding days it was concerned with the Report of the Royal Commission and its recommendations in so far as they affected deaf and dumb people . |
| 8 | The debate over the respective roles of nuclear and conventional arms was inevitably bound up with questions of authority and influence within Nato , especially in so far as they related to the possible use of nuclear weapons , and to their proliferation within the alliance . |
| 9 | Such women may have been rather running businesses than producing goods in so far as they relied on journeymen . |
| 10 | To them enlightened rule , in so far as they thought in terms of it at all , meant simply effective solutions to immediate problems . |
| 11 | Except in so far as they publicized opinion poll findings , television projections of party credibility did not dictate public perceptions . |
| 12 | He was far less concerned with the ‘ facts ’ , with the accuracy or applicability of substantive knowledge — these things were important in so far as they indicated the perspective which lay behind them . |
| 13 | It was difficult for them to appreciate that [ h ] -loss could ever have been anything else but a stigmatized form : in so far as they knew of evidence for it in earlier centuries , they tended to dismiss it , seemingly in the belief that ‘ vulgar ’ and ‘ careless ’ usage is not implicated in linguistic change . |
| 14 | In their view this had hopelessly inhibited the quest for the causes of crime in the case of classical criminology , and diverted attention away from social defence in the case of the neoclassicists ( since the latter were only interested in ‘ determinants ’ of crime in so far as they reduced the offender 's responsibility ) . |
| 15 | In so far as they secured a satisfactory response then they succeeded in lifting their own fiscal crisis up to the central level of the state . |
| 16 | Statutory advisers from the conservation bodies all gave us a list of the areas that they wanted included and , for the most part , we followed those lists in so far as they agreed with one another . |
| 17 | In so far as they purchased stocks for their clients , that was , if an important redirection of resources , hardly an immediate switch between sectors . |
| 18 | Their outsides remained functional ; it was only their insides , in so far as they belonged to the bourgeois world like the newly devised Pullman sleeping-cars ( 1865 ) and the first-class steamer saloons and state-rooms , which had décor . |
| 19 | By the early seventeenth century , therefore , foreign offices , in so far as they existed , were still for the most part embryonic . |
| 20 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 21 | Before the case came to a hearing Parliament sought to improve the revenue 's position by enacting with retrospective effect section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1986 , but this proved ineffective for the purpose and on 31 July 1987 Nolan J. [ 1987 ] S.T.C. 654 decided that the regulations complained of were ultra vires and void in so far as they purported to provide for the imposition of tax on interests and dividends paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 , and made an order accordingly . |
| 22 | Such Methodenstreite ( battles of methods ) divided the world of the social scientists , but in so far as they entered the natural sciences — even the biological ones on the sensitive issue of evolution — they reflected an intrusion of ideological preferences rather than professional debate . |
| 23 | In so far as they established the break at eleven years of age and encouraged a different curriculum from that of the elementary school the description was apt , but these changes also refined the older system of sponsored mobility for a few . |
| 24 | They adamantly believed that ‘ at that time it was not done to ‘ ’ poach' ’ settled executives in any direct or overt way' ; but they may be seen as the precursors of headhunting in Britain , in so far as they acted as consultants in executive selection and advertising , within a general management consultancy practice . |
| 25 | The republicanism of Irish socialist nationalists was of course logical in so far as they interpreted imperialism as an enemy of the indigenous population and as an expropriator of the people . |
| 26 | Secondly , the Rules were flawed in so far as they did not seem to anticipate the possibility of problems created by the piecemeal acquisition of bonds either by occasional buying out or by gift . |
| 27 | Such an attitude reflected the determination to decapitate the lower classes , in so far as they did not shed their potential leaders spontaneously by absorption into the lower middle class . |
| 28 | In so far as they did see a coming energy source they thought it would be atomic energy , and they wrote the treaty that 's called the Euratom Treaty to cover this , but it did n't cover oil , and that is perhaps why it 's been a much less contentious subject . |
| 29 | No doubt the material culture of the Russians was more highly developed than that of most Siberian peoples , in so far as they built log houses with wooden floors , windows and stoves ; wore clothing made of textiles woven from linen , hemp or wool ; used steam-baths ; were able to shoot game ( and people ) more efficiently with bullets than with arrows ; used vessels made of ceramics or metal ; provided themselves with grain and vegetables where natural conditions permitted , and so on . |
| 30 | But at that time it was n't what you 'd call modern in so far as you had n't got hot water from a sort of gas fir Electric heating . |