Example sentences of "so far as [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As elsewhere in industry , this terrific pace could not be maintained and ultimately , when the Minister of Labour recommended the reduction of working hours to 56 , the Railway Workshop followed suit , so far as was practicable . |
| 2 | The only sense in which the government had an overall strategy was in its continued determination to maintain full employment so far as was consistent with a fixed exchange rate . |
| 3 | This decision met with considerable resistance from our East German colleagues , and in the end , the only way to overcome this was to steer clear so far as was possible of the art historical minefield that exists in Germany . |
| 4 | There was a gang of kids playing up on the embankment , just as Preston and William had , junior hangers-on , rookie spear carriers in the terrible Derek Sumter gang which had once ruled the neighbourhood , so far as was tolerated by the greater power of the nans . |
| 5 | Most of the brothers were all too well aware of him , but in his absence relaxed , gave thanks and forgot him ; and the novices and schoolboys evaded being in his proximity at all , so far as was possible . |
| 6 | Under the Act the L.T.E. was required , so far as was practicable , to make up any deficit incurred in one accounting period within the next such period . |
| 7 | This Boden observed other people 's taboos just so far as was necessary , but he went his own way , sure that no values were valid but his own . |