Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The position is different in so far as it affects the duty solicitor scheme .
2 In Hilton it represents stages in the journey to God when the soul is no longer engaged with worldly things and as it were asleep to sin ( 24.90r. – 235 ) but is not yet fully illuminated by the knowledge of Christ : The experience of the dark can be either painful or restful : painful in so far as the soul is still troubled by the pressures of the worldly attractions from which it is hiding ; or restful in so far as the soul is waiting untroubled in its longing for Christ .
3 The diets are similar in so far as they both exclude a great deal of fat , thereby maximising the reduction of fat from our body .
4 Any tense which includes a component of the present tense such as the passé composé ( il a écrit ) is personal in so far as it acknowledges the present moment of the utterance .
5 The problem is relatively straightforward in so far as trees are concerned .
6 To the Sufi the divine is in all things and manifested to the seer , and it is this divine attribute that he sees and which is transferred to the work of the poet and the mystic ; and that work is authentic in so far as it depicts faithfully the himma or emotional part of the event .
7 Jane Cox was 21 , attractive , single and hardworking in so far as her condition allowed .
8 Black sportsmen are not exceptional in so far as they too undergo the turbulence of having to refashion their ideas about career and , indeed , life prospects at around this age .
9 Secondly , the Rules were flawed in so far as they did not seem to anticipate the possibility of problems created by the piecemeal acquisition of bonds either by occasional buying out or by gift .
10 In other words , a child with an MLU which falls below the bottom of this range is relatively unusual in so far as her MLU is lower than about 85 per cent of ordinary children .
11 It does , however , link the law to the idea of harm and this is valuable in so far as it reduces the risk that boisterous behaviour , or other non-violent activity , can by itself amount to a breach of the peace .
12 The results were all good for so long as the growth in output kept pace with the expansion of the new ‘ money ’ .
13 Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure .
14 Indeed , it is reassuring to note that although these studies involve different problems within the verb , they all seem to be converging in so far as the view of the relation between event time and universe time ( time containing the event ) is concerned .
15 Objectification as an approach is only useful in so far as it is an aid to understanding a given process in the world .
16 The republicanism of Irish socialist nationalists was of course logical in so far as they interpreted imperialism as an enemy of the indigenous population and as an expropriator of the people .
17 It is logical in so far as Scotland , in pacing themselves in a World Cup context , have already given caps when deliberately fielding understrength XVs versus the like of Japan and Zimbabwe .
18 Throughout the whole of life , Man is happy or unhappy in so far as he discovers the right admixture for his life of these quite distinct manners of using energy .
19 Past cases are only helpful in so far as they act as a guide and some of the main points arising from them are discussed below .
20 This volume however is both unusual and welcome because it deals specifically with the work of Julia Kristeva ; it is informative in so far as it indicates the cross-disciplinary implications of her work , and it maintains a balance between the introductory and the complex .
21 But this was only innovative in so far as classical ballet was concerned as there are many 5/4 Slav folk dances .
22 Parliamentary sovereignty is still intact in so far as Parliament can still repeal the act committing us to entry .
23 A group is coherent in so far as it has a certain continuity in its consciousness , its organisation and its action ; but its coherence also implies that its members do actually support one another in practical ways that are consistent with the objectives of the group .
24 He was far less concerned with the ‘ facts ’ , with the accuracy or applicability of substantive knowledge — these things were important in so far as they indicated the perspective which lay behind them .
25 The concept of risk has been recognized as important in so far as older people have been defined as dependent or vulnerable ( Stevenson , 1989 ) but there has been little systematic analysis of risk , risk-tolerance and risk-management in relation to older people ( for a discussion of issues , see Norman , 1979 ) .
26 Weiss believes friendships to be important in so far as they reflect attitudes and behaviour that are supportive of the individual 's own beliefs , and they provide a reassurance of self-worth by virtue of their acceptance .
27 yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void
28 In Hilton it represents stages in the journey to God when the soul is no longer engaged with worldly things and as it were asleep to sin ( 24.90r. – 235 ) but is not yet fully illuminated by the knowledge of Christ : The experience of the dark can be either painful or restful : painful in so far as the soul is still troubled by the pressures of the worldly attractions from which it is hiding ; or restful in so far as the soul is waiting untroubled in its longing for Christ .
29 And you only seemed artificial in so far as you disregarded the customary devices of false simplicity . ’
30 The Consolidation Act provides that any clause in an agreement is void in so far as it purports :
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