Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] in [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3.7 The expression " pain and suffering " is almost a term of art in so far as the expression embraces different concepts . |
| 2 | Mundanity is a variety of realism in so far as familiar and recurrent experiences are those which the mind most readily conceives of as " real " . |
| 3 | Schegloff has made studies of the rules of conversation in so far as they govern who speaks when , and how we know when it is our turn to speak . |
| 4 | Reports of Parliamentary proceedings are protected by the ordinary law of defamation in so far as they are fair and accurate unless the defamed person can prove malice . |
| 5 | Hinshaw makes a distinction between the ‘ cognitive ’ and ‘ evocative ’ contents of knowledge suggesting that the ‘ truth ’ , at the semantic and syntactic levels , can be considered in isolation from the social basis of knowledge in so far as it can be shown to be cognitive rather than evocative . |
| 6 | In one condition of their experiment nonsense sequences followed a structural pattern of English in so far as replacing the nonsense stems by English stems would have resulted in a grammatically correct sequence . |
| 7 | A man with a poor employment history , who has lost several jobs and experienced intermittent phases of unemployment , has a considerably raised probability of becoming depressed when he is again made redundant ( Eales , 1985 ) , but will also have a raised chance of being near the top of an employer 's list for redundancy in so far as it is the policy of many employers to exercise a ‘ last in first out ’ policy . |
| 8 | In any event , residence of some kind was the hallmark of establishment in so far as establishment involved economic integration in the host member state of a kind that was greater than that which arose from the provision of a cross-border service . |
| 9 | Finally , as will be seen below , a restrictive view towards the use of companies may be a disincentive to expansion in so far as the corporate form permits greater flexibility in the raising of outside finance . |
| 10 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |