Example sentences of "[unc] as it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It can , however , be dangerous insofar as it promotes heat loss : your body is tending to become cold in a cold environment .
2 He was interested in the music industry only insofar as it affected Virgin .
3 Insofar as it provides information on their situation one year ago , the LFS enables us to see how many persons enter employment via temporary jobs .
4 Insofar as it has force by virtue of the potential penalty in expenses , it follows that the earlier in the action the Tender is lodged , the greater the effect which it may have .
5 Though generally critical of his own era , Byng none the less extended qualified sympathy to developments which served ends he valued ; to Methodism , inasmuch as it instilled ‘ wholesome morals ’ , and to spreading industry , inasmuch as it provided employment , though he worried that , like religion , which had ‘ overstretch 'd her power … and was blown up … the cotton trade … may crack ! ’
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