Example sentences of "in so far that " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 2 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 3 | Er , in so far that my father had been dismissed from the er from the coal mining industry , er before just before nineteen twenty six , and he was officially unemployed . |
| 4 | So the family , we as a family were better off than the majority of er of families er in so far that er er whilst we were a a fair sized family , we did have at least some income , in the form of unemployment pay er that my father received . |
| 5 | Probably too much so on the political side , in so far that er er looking back , it seems that w w we were isolated from other young people , in so far that we were associated with straight political er activity and er straight political movement . |
| 6 | Er it ought not to have done in so far that er we were we were we were we were moving , we were going forward to take up positions on er on the river , er and this was being done on the understanding that er a certain bridge had been destroyed , er and it had n't been destroyed er and they were and they were they were already across you see . |
| 7 | I think it is fair to say that erm all the detailed surveys which have been taken have tended to support the findings from the one to fifty thousand map in so far that the various developments proposed to the west and to the south have include quite large elements of grade two land , whereas the se proposals to the north a tend to be grade three land . |