Example sentences of "[adv] far as [pron] do " in BNC.

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1 For anyone for whom literary education — like any other — is an exploration of the meanings we have and live by , so far as we do live by meanings , Virgil and Dante are connecting rooms …
2 Academics can still write evaluative criticism of course , and in so far as they do they are producing the kind of criticism practised by men of letters .
3 Of contracts for the benefit of the infant , so far as they do not coincide with contracts for necessaries , a contract for the employment of the infant , where his position in life makes employment desirable for him , is a typical case .
4 In so far as they do , they are troubled : they try to find a way for women to be represented in a religion where the Godhead is conceived in male terms , and a way indeed to be able to associate themselves with a male God or Christ .
5 Bill the dog always seems to walk at least twice as far as I do , running ahead for a while and coming back to check that I 'm following before he dives down a hole after rabbits that he never catches .
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