Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] so [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords held that parental rights are recognised in law only for so long as they are needed for the protection of the child . |
| 2 | Corporatism tends to " fit " the facts best with respect to the major functional economic groupings of capital and labour ; with respect to issues of economic policy ( especially in so far as they concern incomes ) in periods of boom when labour can not be easily disciplined by market forces ; and at the level of the central state . |
| 3 | Over the past few years , part of the Left in Britain has moved into a more considered view as to the limits of elements of the British constitution , at the same time as it has become increasingly alive to the merits of elements of that same constitution — especially in so far as they bear on the issues of democracy , the sovereignty of Parliament and the people , and civil liberties . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Things happened in this period that profoundly influenced sociological thinking in particular , and especially in so far as it related to crime and criminals ; they led to a comprehensive rejection of the most cherished principles of positivist criminology . |
| 6 | On the other hand , the very pursuit of ‘ respectability ’ , especially in so far as it involved claims to status recognition and participation in local institutions , was a source of social tension , a focal point in the growth of class identity . |
| 7 | First , it provided a most favourable environment for the development of capitalism — a stable , well-organized political system , with a rational and effectively administered body of law , especially in so far as it related to property and contracts . |
| 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 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 10 | But this was a drama , the story of the circumstances of Van Gogh 's life ; ‘ No attempt has been made , ’ wrote Meier-Graefe , ‘ to make a critical analysis of the pictures , which enter upon the scene only in so far as they concern the drama directly or indirectly . ’ |
| 11 | They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world . |
| 12 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |
| 13 | But this does not mean that it is fitted only to be used on matters at the extreme end of the spectrum of abstraction — that it can , for instance , discuss people only in so far as they are rational beings , or sets of behaviour-patterns , or immortal souls . |
| 14 | The primal father of the horde is masterful , self-confident , independent and absolutely narcissistic ; other people are loved only in so far as they serve his needs . |
| 15 | Definitions are useful only in so far as they encapsulate a particular conception or theory of the phenomena one wishes to study . |
| 16 | Specifically , the history of English since about 1550 is often presented as what Lass ( 1976 : xi ) has called a ‘ single-minded march ’ towards RP and modern standard English , with divergent developments either excluded or admitted only in so far as they throw light on ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 17 | Since s. 2(2) OLA 1957 requires the occupier to take such care as is reasonable to see that visitors will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which they are invited or permitted by the occupier to be there , lawful visitors will be owed a duty only in so far as they remain within the scope of their invitation or permission to be on the premises . |
| 18 | Tied cottagers received protection under the Rent Act 1957 only in so far as they were ‘ tenants ’ who were entitled to four weeks ' notice to quit and could not be evicted without prior warning . |
| 19 | New inventions are applied only in so far as they fit existing missions and strategies determined in previous wars . |
| 20 | Sufferers get better in the Fellowships ; treatment centres and counsellors are of value only in so far as they help sufferers towards an understanding of the principles and processes of the Fellowships . |
| 21 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 22 | But in his analyses of kinship relations or of cooking , for example , Lévi-Strauss 's approach is based entirely on the assumption that they are systems which are structured like a language ; that is to say , that their individual elements have meaning only in so far as they are part of an overall system . |
| 23 | She found Clelia 's company extraordinarily entertaining , and bracing only in so far as she liked to be braced : she could hardly follow a word , for instance , of the art references in her conversation , but Clelia managed somehow to combine a great air of erudition and abstruseness with a marked facility for making explanations , so that ignorance was no bar to amusement . |
| 24 | He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste . |
| 25 | This unit can become bound to others only by his own free choice , and his choice is rational only in so far as he can safely expect it to serve his own interests . |
| 26 | The Revolution had impinged on their consciousness only in so far as it provided them with land , or took away foodstuffs during War Communism . |
| 27 | The discussion is more neutral only in so far as it is assumed that the curriculum ( such a global phenomenon ) is no-one 's responsibility in particular , and clearly this is so in an individual sense — but it is however the responsibility of the profession to take a leading role in this area and at the moment it is not fulfilling this role . |
| 28 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 29 | Law and custom thus defend the family as the prime agent of socialisation only in so far as it fulfils the task currently prescribed . |
| 30 | Next , it will support the claim that corporate power is justifiable only in so far as it promotes the public interest , and accordingly that society is entitled to demand that company policies serve that interest . |