Example sentences of "[prep] so far as i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Although er er physically on my right I I think their policies , in so far as I glean they have any , er are most definitely far from the right .
2 Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons .
3 But in so far as I achieve awareness from your viewpoint I feel the pull towards your goals , and even when I resist , I do so very much as I push away inclinations of my own which are dangerous to my long-term ambitions ; a choice between your goals and mine belongs among my choices of ends .
4 In so far as I did understand it , I welcome his commitment of the Labour party to the Trident programme .
5 I have my eye on the subject ; the hon. Lady 's point is well taken and , in so far as I have control over these matters , I shall make certain that local authorities concentrate as much of their resources on local sport and recreation provision as they should .
6 In so far as I understand the logic here , heterosexual sodomy is surrogate homosexuality and homosexual sodomy is surrogate heterosexuality — or rather surrogate heterosexual incestuous genital intercourse .
7 But the ability to produce such phrases does not constitute communicative competence in so far as I understand the concept ( Widdowson 1978 , 1979 , 1983 , 1984a , 1989 ) , or as discussed in , for example , Canale and Swain 1980 , and Bachman 1990 .
8 In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) .
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