Example sentences of "[prep] so far [conj] [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly there was the occasional spectacular apostasy from civilized values , as in the case of Jack Driberg , a Kenya Masai official who went native and then proceeded to a distinguished career as a lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge ; but on the whole the records , in so far as they can be relied on in such matters do not support this view . |
| 2 | such person shall as though he were the Policyholder observe fulfil and be subject to the terms exceptions and conditions of this Policy in so far as they can apply . |
| 3 | In the event of the death of any person entitled to indemnity under this Section the Corporation will in respect of the liability incurred by such person indemnify his legal personal representatives in the terms of and subject to the limitations of this Section provided that such representatives shall as though they were the Policyholder observe fulfil and be subject to the terms exceptions and conditions of the Policy in so far as they can apply . |
| 4 | unless he shall observe fulfil and be subject to the terms exceptions and conditions of this Policy in so far as they can apply |
| 5 | compensation payable to any person other than the Policyholder shall be paid direct to such other person who shall observe fulfil and be subject to the terms exceptions and conditions of this Policy in so far as they can apply . |
| 6 | In so far as one can single out a starting-point in Althusser 's exposition , it is Marx 's critique of homo oeconomicus . |
| 7 | Others would admit , indeed require , that higher education should embody rationality , and in so far as one can believe or practice that , it becomes a cultural pattern . |
| 8 | They uniformly show young , narrow-shouldered , and in so far as one can see through the draperies , narrow-hipped , flat-chested women with long pale hands which have clearly never done a stroke of work . |
| 9 | Language is not just the means of communication in literature , but , in so far as one can say literature has a content , language in all its opacity is also the content of literature . |
| 10 | In fact , in so far as one can detect a firm line in his early Algerian policy , it was a policy which aimed to achieve association — i.e. cooperation between France and a more autonomous but not fully independent Algeria . |
| 11 | We also judge work performance by the quality of the product ( in so far as we can assess this ) and by the work style of the performer . |
| 12 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 13 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 14 | And in so far as we can use gender imagery for these things the Logos is a masculine principle … . |
| 15 | We do indeed manipulate and control our surroundings , in so far as we can , by way of things as causal rather than as effects . |
| 16 | Studying the semantic features of texts is inevitably rather an intuitive business , and in so far as we can quantify such features at all , it often seems best to attach them to grammatical labels ( eg " colour adjectives " , " adverbials of place " ) , and to use some arbitrary standard of measurement , such as number of words . |
| 17 | Equally , your murder still needs to be , in so far as you can contrive it without becoming ridiculous , attention-grabbing . |
| 18 | The justices have not set out in terms their findings under section 1 but they have considered all the aspects of the case in so far as I can see . |
| 19 | In so far as I can make out the policy of the Labour party , it is to give the business rate back to local authorities . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Human behaviour enters social reality in so far as it can be given a meaning . |
| 22 | Yet , in so far as it can be pinned down , this is the sort of crime fiction that many writers today want to write , and many , many readers want to read . |
| 23 | Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well . |
| 24 | Several studies , for example , suggest that departmental productivity , in so far as it can be measured , has improved significantly in recent years . |
| 25 | This unit can become bound to others only by his own free choice , and his choice is rational only in so far as he can safely expect it to serve his own interests . |