Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] in so far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their view this had hopelessly inhibited the quest for the causes of crime in the case of classical criminology , and diverted attention away from social defence in the case of the neoclassicists ( since the latter were only interested in ‘ determinants ’ of crime in so far as they reduced the offender 's responsibility ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 3.7 The expression " pain and suffering " is almost a term of art in so far as the expression embraces different concepts . |
| 8 | The law applicable to a contract by virtue of articles 3 to 6 and 12 of this Convention shall govern in particular : ( a ) interpretation ; ( b ) performance ; ( c ) within the limits of the powers conferred on the court by its procedural law , the consequences of breach , including the assessment of damages in so far as it is governed by rules of law ; ( d ) the various ways of extinguishing obligations , and prescription and limitations of actions ; ( e ) the consequences of nullity of the contract . |
| 9 | ( a ) Under the Partnership Act As already mentioned , Pt II of the Partnership Act contains certain basic provisions to regulate the rights and duties of partners in so far as they are not defined in writing or otherwise discernible in some course of conduct . |
| 10 | Grammatology is the ‘ science ’ of writing in so far as writing is regarded as a generalized phenomenon , as archi-écriture . |
| 11 | These internal connections are explanatory of the behaviour of particles in so far as the world conforms to the model . |
| 12 | ( One may however ask after the nature of men in so far as it has been men rather than women who have created these pictures of the world and of the ‘ place ’ of woman within it such that they should have needed to construct such a misogynist picture . ) |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In reviewing the central site , consideration has been given primarily to the needs of History and of English in so far as the needs of the latter can not be satisfied on the St Cross site . |
| 16 | Madam Deputy Speaker there is course another matter of er of er broader significance and that is that er whilst these orders er er er cover erm certain financial institutions , they do n't erm they do n't cover others , they do n't cover Lloyds of London in so far as I could see , erm I 'd half expected to see the honourable member for Gloucester West er in his place to pursue his campaign that apparently he er he he is not able to be here and indeed er others who sit on the benches opposite who lost a large sum of money in Lloyds , er but they might have had something to say about it as it does seem odd that Lloyds has not been covered , no doubt the minister would tell us that needs primary legislation and I I 'm quite sure this government would move heaven and earth not to introduce another Lloyds bill er because of er the problems that that would no doubt attract . |
| 17 | As Miliband ( 1974 ) says , ‘ Old age , disablement , low pay , unemployment , etc. become synonymous with poverty in so far as those involved are members of the working class . ’ |
| 18 | We are , says Derrida , still inside structuralism in so far as structuralism constitutes ‘ an adventure of vision , a conversion in the way of putting questions to any object ’ ( Derrida 1978 : 3 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The range of permissible investments , for instance , is defined by statute in so far as the settlement makes no provision ; but , even within the limits of investment allowed by statute or settlement , a trustee may incur liability by want of due care in exercising his discretion . |