Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] so [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the first half I thought we played some great stuff , but football is all about what happens in front of goal and we were disappointing so far as that was concerned . ’ |
| 2 | The Court of Appeal held that those transactions were valid so far as they were entered into for the purposes of interest rate risk management and not for trading purposes . |
| 3 | Whatever it might have been , it was short-lived so far as James was concerned . |
| 4 | The coexistence in Francia of Louis and Lothar as co-emperors was possible so long as Lothar remained unmarried . |
| 5 | This , however , was impossible so long as descent was reckoned according to mother right . |
| 6 | He knew he was safe so long as he remained in the kitchen . |
| 7 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 8 | That was sustainable so long as France faced an unquestioned nuclear threat from the Soviet Union , and needed to respond with only small-scale military operations overseas ( in Chad , for example , or Gabon ) . |