Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] so far as " in BNC.
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| 31 | Definitions are useful only in so far as they encapsulate a particular conception or theory of the phenomena one wishes to study . |
| 32 | It was simply a conversation in which the group was significant only in so far as any communication requires two or more people to support it . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | As far as the registration of fishing vessels was concerned , the Danish Government accepted that Community law had an effect on the criteria adopted by the member states , but only in so far as the application of the general requirements of registration would preclude citizens from other member states from pursuing an economic activity which they were otherwise entitled to pursue . |
| 37 | Consequently , even if a non-member country may possibly be entitled not to recognise a flag granted in a manner contrary to the Geneva Convention , it can do so only in so far as there is no ‘ genuine link , ’ regardless as to its nature , between the vessel and the state whose flag it is flying . |
| 38 | Treaty should be considered only in so far as there are situations other than those covered by one or other of the specific provisions at issue here . |
| 39 | Reference is made to the report for the hearing for a fuller account of the facts in the proceedings before the national court , the course of the procedure and the written observations submitted to the Court of Justice , which are mentioned or discussed hereinafter only in so far as is necessary for the reasoning of the court . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The tolerance of adults is important only in so far as it allows them to feed high on the shore , exposed to rain . |
| 42 | If they can not , councillors develop policy only in so far as the bureaucracy permits . |
| 43 | New inventions are applied only in so far as they fit existing missions and strategies determined in previous wars . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 46 | ‘ I ‘ disapprove ’ only in so far as your adventurous inclinations affect my own family , I assure you . |
| 47 | Fourthly , the 1966 White Paper made it plain that at that time it was the government 's intention that the polytechnics should remain primarily teaching institutions ; as the DES notes of guidance subsequently indicated , research would be justified only in so far as it was of educational value to the teaching staff and of benefit to industry and business . |
| 48 | I shall go back into the classical age of Greece only in so far as it is necessary in order to understand the later times . |
| 49 | Subdivision is carried out only in so far as it is profitable ; too much splitting would cause more problems than it would avoid . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | It is , however , possible for the seller to be exempted from liability under sections 13 to 15 of the Sale of Goods Act , but only in so far as the seller can show that the exemption clause satisfies the requirement of reasonableness , i.e. that it was a ‘ fair and reasonable one to be included having regard to circumstances which were , or ought reasonably to have been , known to or in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made ’ ( section 11 ) . |
| 52 | Thus , liability for death or personal injury arising from such a breach of contract can not be excluded or restricted at all ; liability for other loss or injury arising from such a breach can be excluded only in so far as the exclusion clause satisfies the requirement of reasonableness , Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , section 2 ( see paragraph 10–24 above ) . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | They will therefore be interested in the firm only in so far as its activities and financial structure influence the risk class of the bonds . |
| 55 | The LIFESPAN Process account is required only in so far as a suitable UIC must be available for running your LIFESPAN Processes . |
| 56 | The LIFESPAN Manager account is required only in so far as a VMS account with the privileges CMKRNL , SYSPRV , SYSNAM , DETACH , LOG_IO and WORLD must be available to start and stop LIFESPAN Processes and to undertake the administrative duties detailed in Section 3 of this guide . |
| 57 | Hypocrisy entered this pattern of behaviour only in so far as the bourgeois women were supposed to remain entirely outside the game , and therefore in ignorance of what the men , and women other than themselves , were up to . |
| 58 | But this was a ‘ bourgeois ’ phenomenon only in so far as it reflected the hegemony of bourgeois respectability . |
| 59 | Comment on the position there , only in so far as the extent of the existing contract which is not due to expire until first of January nineteen ninety five , and we 're not proposing to ask to terminate that . |
| 60 | But worse , at this point design can " no longer be aware of itself for to separate the social formative and communicative-representational functions is to reduce itself , to make its activity into a variation of technical activity , unimportant in itself , important only in so far as a problem can be solved through it , a product constructed . |