Example sentences of "far as it [verb] " in BNC.

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31 because the verderers … and … the Steward of the Forest made no mention in their rolls of the name of the said page , nor of his delivery , nor of his escape , and the business of the King so far as it relates to the said boy is entirely undone , therefore they are in mercy .
32 The epitaph upon the old Forest system was finally written in the Wild Creatures and Forest Laws Act of 1971 , which abolished the sovereign 's prerogative right to wild creatures ( except royal fish and swans ) , and abrogated the Forest law , except in so far as it relates to the appointment and functions of verderers .
33 It therefore follows , in our judgment , that although this has gone unnoticed for 119 years , the jurisdiction of the judges as visitors , in so far as it relates to questions as to the fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , is a jurisdiction which in 1873 was vested in the judges of the three common law courts , sitting elsewhere than in court or chambers , when acting as judges , in pursuance of custom .
34 By Schedule 1 , paragraph 1(c) of the Act , the provisions contained in sections 2 to 4 do not extend to any contract : so far as it relates to the creation or transfer of any right or interest in any patent , trade mark , copyright , … or other intellectual property .
35 ( 4 ) A covenant by the lessee for the repair of the premises is of no effect so far as it relates to the matters mentioned in subsection ( l ) ( a ) to ( c ) , except so far as it imposes on the lessee any of the requirements mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) ( a ) or ( c ) .
36 In so far as it remains possible to approach the problem as a matter of principle , the law should be that , if a person is acting in a way that is independently lawful , his conduct should not become unlawful merely because he fails to obey the instructions of a policeman .
37 The tolerance of adults is important only in so far as it allows them to feed high on the shore , exposed to rain .
38 And none of this would matter Chairman I do n't think er whether E two whether E two was in or out of the structure plan only matters in so far as it bears a part of the making of local plans and the making of planning applications in the county .
39 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 .
40 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 .
41 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 .
42 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 .
43 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 .
44 Newcastle 's death in 1768 merely removed the most accomplished practitioner of the system ; the word ‘ party ’ only had political significance as far as it related to the following of great magnates .
45 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 .
46 Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable .
47 However , when one comes to the duty to provide and ordain suitable trained attorneys and lawyers to equip the courts , the judges ' performance of that duty , in so far as it related to the provision of trained advocates , was executed through the relationship they developed with the Inns of Court .
48 Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city .
49 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 .
50 Wealth is only desirable in so far as it enables them to indulge in litigation , and the height of their ambition is to succeed in a case , especially if thereby their enemy is punished . ’
51 In so far as it reached out beyond the rather eccentric sect of the Comtist ‘ Religion of Humanity ’ , positivism became little more than a philosophical justification of the conventional method of the experimental sciences , and similarly for most contemporaries Mill was , again in the words of Taine , the man who had opened up ‘ the good old road of induction and experiment ’ .
52 However , our basic model may be criticized in advance of this discussion in so far as it ignores the monetary effects of fiscal decisions and so may overstate the case in favour of macroeconomic management through this route .
53 And that is — I am afraid - as far as it goes .
54 All the same Schneidau 's argument is just and illuminating , so far as it goes .
55 This book , therefore , is good and probably reliable as far as it goes .
56 Darwin 's concept of evolution may hold water as far as it goes , but without the inclusion of an omnipotent ‘ Master Mind ’ , working from outside to plan the possibility of purposeful development , it makes no sense to me at all .
57 Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment .
58 Several said firmly that suitability and fitness should be the only criteria , and that is fine , as far as it goes .
59 THIS is a very long , very expensive and very highlevel book on human intelligence which will undoubtedly become , for many years to come , and as far as it goes , a standard book of reference , It has five parts , dealing respectively with the nature of intelligence and its measurement ; cognition , personality and intelligence ; society , culture , and intelligence ; the phylogeny and ontogeny of intelligence ; and a metatheory of intelligence .
60 I doubt it myself , for the reason that introduced the words ‘ as far as it goes ’ above : the book simply leaves out of account the most important recent developments which foretell a revolution in the measurement and understanding of intelligence .
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