Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] so [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growth in earnings per share is the key short-term measure so far as the City is concerned . |
| 2 | If , as a result of its inquiries under s47 , it concludes that certain action should be taken to safeguard or promote a child 's welfare it must take that action so far as it is both within its power and reasonably practicable for it to do so ( s47(8) ) . |
| 3 | At first it was men who were not allowed into the house and although this position resulted in a lot of criticism and ridicule , most feminists had some sympathy so long as we did n't seriously advocate separatism for all women . |
| 4 | To quote that part of this Act so far as it affects a member of a local authority may be useful . |
| 5 | The register , like other records that a company is required to maintain , may be kept either in bound books or by recording the matter in any other way and , in particular , may be on a computer or other electronic device so long as the material can be reproduced in legible form and is so reproduced for purposes of inspection or supply of a copy . |
| 6 | Nothing illustrates this point so clearly as the fate of a paper published in 1874 by C. Nägeli entitled Verdrängung der Pflanzenformen durch ihre Mitbewerber . |
| 7 | It sounded as if he needed another pair of hands for the trip ahead — which was another reprieve so far as Robbie was concerned . |
| 8 | Inflationary expectations will be revised upwards , eventually to 4 per cent according to Friedman , and the appropriate Phillips curve will shift upwards to curve B. As it does so , unemployment rises back to the NUP and the economy moves to point F. At this point , the actual and expected rates of inflation are 4 per cent , and inflation will stay at this rate so long as the new money supply growth rate is maintained . |
| 9 | But Sartre 's courageous intervention against French and other colonialisms could not have a corresponding theoretical impact so long as he retained his historicist Marxist framework . |
| 10 | At the very least the Purchaser will expect the Vendor to give this warranty so far as it is aware . |
| 11 | It seemed to [ Judith ] that the emperor 's good physical condition might not last much longer , and his death would threaten danger to herself and to Charles unless they could win over one of Charles 's elder brothers to work with them , and they calculated that none of the emperor 's sons would fit this role so well as Lothar . |
| 12 | The churchyard had emptied , the wedding-carriages had rolled away , taking their fragile gaiety with them to another world so far as Cara was concerned . |
| 13 | A day or two later she was to receive another surprise so far as animals were concerned when the ginger kitten , more adventurous than his brothers , found his way into the cabin where the Dalmatian was suckling her pups and joined in the free feast . |
| 14 | Furthermore , it appears that electronic exchanges have wider bid-ask spreads , which might be a reflection of inadequate liquidity due to the lack of locals ( although there seems to be no inherent reason why individuals trading on their own account could not use an electronic system so long as it enables the scalping and other arbitrage trading practices typically carried out by locals ) . |
| 15 | Before he left Persia in February 1921 , Ironside told Reza Khan that the British would not oppose his seizing power so long as the reigning Qajar Shah was not actually deposed . |
| 16 | The German Idealist tradition was born out of the rejection of British empiricism and some political commentators have urged that the legacy of this can still be seen in the idea that ‘ the Germans have only really to desire change in order to achieve basic changes in their position , and that these changes would in consequence alter the European scene so radically as to produce the longed-for peace ’ . |
| 17 | Section 3 of that Act so far as relevant provides : |
| 18 | Obviously , an employee is free to apply for another position even with a rival of his present employer , or to find premises in which to set up a future business so long as in doing so he is not in breach of any valid express term in his employment contract : see Searle ( GD ) & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [ 1982 ] FSR 92 . |
| 19 | In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post . |
| 20 | Also , where the company subsequent to granting a floating charge containing a negative pledge provision purchases property leaving part of the purchase secured by a mortgage , the mortgage will take priority , even if the mortgage has actual notice so long as what the company acquired was the equity of redemption subject to the mortgage . |
| 21 | I slip into the pitfall of subjectivity with trepidation , but observing my fellow patients , I seemed to discern a distinct pattern so far as stress was concerned . |
| 22 | " Popular power " and " government by the people " are not , I would suggest , vacuous slogans , but it is easy for critics and sceptics to dismiss them as mere rhetoric so long as those who use them fail to specify what they imply , in practice and in some detail . |
| 23 | I have argued before , and shall again , that the farming industry has nothing to fear from such legislation so long as it is fairly enforced . |
| 24 | Naturally , one desires to suppress the personal element so far as possible , but if one has an opinion to express there is nothing to offend anybody in a straightforward ‘ in my opinion . ’ |
| 25 | The sovereign is under a constitutional duty to accept the advice of her ministers tendered through her chief minister so long as they command her confidence — so long , that is , as they command a majority in Parliament . |
| 26 | The allowance is given from the date of bereavement to the end of that tax year , and for the following year so long as she has not remarried by the start of that year . |
| 27 | exemption from the requirement to prepare group accounts in respect of a year in which the group headed by the company is a small or medium-sized group so long as the auditors have reported that in their opinion the company is entitled to the exemptions and their report is attached to the company 's individual accounts . |
| 28 | For the social sciences have more to gain from each other than they have to lose , and the precise origin and pedigree of new findings and theories is of little importance so long as they extend and expand our understanding of the world . |
| 29 | This may be the inescapable question for the foreseeable future so long as NATO procurement policy is predicated on highly trained work forces , scarce materials and sophisticated machine tools . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , both Weber and the interactionists did think it was possible to produce causal explanations of human behaviour so long as an understanding of meanings formed part of those explanations . |