Example sentences of "[coord] so [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sawyer and Darton put the position accurately and succinctly in English Books 1475–1900 : ‘ Certain editions are valued for their peculiarities , their rarity or their beauty of production , but not , from a collector 's point of view , so highly or so often as the amateur who possesses an old volume believes . ‘ |
| 2 | The agreement recited that John had left all his estate to his executors by his will but that , shortly before his death , he had declared in the presence of several witnesses that he wished his widow to have the cottage for her life or so long as she continued a widow ; and that , though this wish was never put into writing , the executors were convinced that it was his desire and were willing and desirous that it should be put into effect . |
| 3 | The agreement stated that ‘ in consideration of such dfesire ’ the executors would convey the cottage to the widow for her life or so long as she should continue a widow . |
| 4 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 5 | And so just as Jesus showed his at-one-ment with us , he now asks us to show our at-one-ment with him , and join him to continue the Great Battle until the final defeat of Evil and the ‘ restoration of all things ’ . |
| 6 | Alphabet soup ? ) , power supply wattage and so on as infinitum . |
| 7 | To succeed the programs need to be able to accept input from all the common word processors , data bases , graphics packages and so on as well as scanners and document readers . |
| 8 | You can produce a directory listing , move between directories , invoke PI routines , copy and edit files and so on as you would expect from the $ prompt . |
| 9 | If , on the other hand , B is already the heir of A , then he has received a benefit under A 's estate , and so far as that benefit extends he may be asked to make over property to C. If he does so , however , this is regarded as restitution of property from A 's estate rather than as an institution to B's own estate . |
| 10 | True , what he had felt for Kee was at the time a stronger passion , and so far as charm went they could n't be compared . |
| 11 | At the end of the last war he found himself some French creature and went to live with her , and so far as we know , he 's still in France . ’ |
| 12 | I 've spent a year … polishing brass , chipping rust , and slapping paint on bulkheads , and so far as being a deck officer goes , I 'm just where I started . ’ |
| 13 | The duty to a lawful visitor only extends so long as , and so far as the lawful visitor is making what can reasonably be contemplated as an ordinary and reasonable use of the premises by the lawful visitor for the purposes for which he has been invited . |
| 14 | But a thinking participant like Socrates ( with a following in the Assembly ) found this incident difficult to stomach , and so far as the passage contains a statement of constitutional principle , it ought not to be pressed . |
| 15 | On 7 May the applicant was admitted to bail , and so far as we are aware has been at liberty ever since , although it appears that he has appeared on a number of occasions at the Guildhall Magistrates ' Court , to what effect we do not know . |
| 16 | ‘ 37(1) Any notice , demand or order against which an appeal might be brought to a county court under this Part of this Act shall , if no such appeal is brought , become operative on the expiration of 21 days from the date of the service of the notice , demand or order , and shall be final and conclusive as to any matters which could have been raised on such an appeal , and any such notice , demand or order against which an appeal is brought shall , if and so far as it is confirmed by a county court judge , or the Court of Appeal , become operative as from the date of the final determination of the appeal . |
| 17 | Having regard to the fact that Parliament has not abolished the privilege against self-incrimination Mr. Tully would be entitled to rely on that privilege if but only if and so far as compliance with the order of Buckley J. would provide evidence against him in a criminal trial . |
| 18 | It is not contended that the duty arose out of contract : the contract was between the defendants and Mrs. Walker , and so far as contract is concerned it was to Mrs. Walker the defendants were liable for breach of it . |
| 19 | Section 7(1) stated ‘ The provisions of the Act or order by which the land is authorised to be acquired , or of any Act incorporated therewith , shall in relation to the matters dealt with in this Act , have effect subject to this Act , and so far as inconsistent with this Act those provisions shall cease to have or shall not have effect … ’ |
| 20 | Motability has earned one peerage and an OBE or two , but otherwise virtue is its own reward , and so far as I am concerned , it has been the most successful achievement of my career and the most fortunate thought that ever came into my head . |
| 21 | The statement of the principle of subsidiarity in the Maastricht text is in what would be a new Article 3B of the EEC Treaty , to the effect that ‘ in areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence ’ the Community should take action only if and so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can , therefore , by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action , be better achieved by the Community . |
| 22 | It is necessary to distinguish between gradual and abrupt , minor and major , peaceful and violent political changes ; and so far as is possible to connect these diverse phenomena with their causes or conditions . |
| 23 | They were , fortunately , not identical , though why I should be pleased they were unidentical I do n't know , as identical twins are conceived of the same coupling ; unidentical very often of two separate couplings , and so far as I was concerned the less sexual congress Hugo and his Stephanie had the better . |
| 24 | Before 1198 we have only very fragmentary papal registers ( and hence statements ) and so far as is known no forerunner of the very precious Regestum super negotio Romani imperii . |
| 25 | ( t ) Subject to and in accordance with a due compliance with the provisions of Sections 155 to 158 ( inclusive ) of the Act ( if and so far as such provisions shall be applicable ) , to give , whether directly or indirectly , any kind of financial assistance ( as defined in Section 152(1) ( a ) of the Act ) for any such purpose as is specified in Section 151(1) and/or Section 151(2) of the Act . |
| 26 | ( t ) Subject to and in accordance with a due compliance with the provisions of Sections 155 to 158 ( inclusive ) of the Act ( if and so far as such provisions shall be applicable ) , to give , whether directly or indirectly , any kind of financial assistance ( as defined in Section 152(1) ( a ) of the Act ) for any such purpose as is specified in Section 151(1) and/or Section 151(2) of the Act . |
| 27 | If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . |
| 28 | As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " … |
| 29 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 30 | The seller will replace free of charge any goods proved to the Seller 's satisfaction to have been damaged in transit provided that within 24 hours after delivery both the Seller and the carriers have received from the Purchaser notification in writing of the occurrence of the damage and also , if and so far as practicable , of its nature and extent . |