Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] far as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson later admitted that so far as the shipowners were concerned , " It was blow given and blow returned . |
| 2 | The text pronounces that so far as the words are concerned no trust is created , but then goes on to give a moral reason for holding one to have been created ; it ends by referring to a similar decision of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 3 | My rather innocent trust crumbled when I realized that as far as the police were concerned , I was little better than a criminal on whom they must keep tabs . |
| 4 | If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . |
| 5 | As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " … |
| 6 | The statement of the principle of subsidiarity in the Maastricht text is in what would be a new Article 3B of the EEC Treaty , to the effect that ‘ in areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence ’ the Community should take action only if and so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can , therefore , by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action , be better achieved by the Community . |
| 7 | Further privileges lay in store for W. C. T. as a member of the Weavers ' Company — though nearly every entry in his name subsequently is confused by his double Christian names : even the document granting him his Freedom of the City had to insert ‘ William ’ in front of ‘ Charles ’ with a caret mark , and as far as the Weavers were concerned , he was really ‘ Charles William ’ . |
| 8 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 9 | But so far as the confusions about to be examined are concerned , it does not solve the difficulty . |
| 10 | But as far as the others were concerned he had n't a clue , and , rack his brains as he might , he had very little idea how he could find out . |
| 11 | Its not known if the Government will take on any of the reports recommendations but as far as the campaigners are concerned the battle is far from being lost . |
| 12 | Of course , they were doing something , standing around on comers in groups for example , but as far as the boys were concerned nothing memorable seems to happen to them on Saturday night . |
| 13 | Their father sometimes baths them , often puts them to bed , irons , sews on his buttons and makes cakes , but as far as the kids are concerned , the main thing about Daddy is that he goes off to work in that magical place known as The Office . |
| 14 | But as far as the fly-halves are concerned you can take your pick . |
| 15 | But as far as the Foresters are concerned , its time is up . |