Example sentences of "[conj] in so far [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The epitaph upon the old Forest system was finally written in the Wild Creatures and Forest Laws Act of 1971 , which abolished the sovereign 's prerogative right to wild creatures ( except royal fish and swans ) , and abrogated the Forest law , except in so far as it relates to the appointment and functions of verderers . |
| 2 | Similarly , although libraries were established in temples and palaces in order to conserve records of the past , there is no evidence of any interest in history , except in so far as it was a guide to action in the present . |
| 3 | In fact , another species of bee that communicates about food sources ( Apis florica ) does so in the same way except in so far as it wiggles in the horizontal rather than the vertical plane , and so can indicate directly the angle of the food source from the sun . |
| 4 | The mother through her counsel has sought to support the decision of the justices except in so far as it is conceded that the prohibited steps order in relation to the two adults was wrong , and likewise although in the court below the guardian ad litem had reluctantly supported the interim care order , the guardian ad litem today seeks to uphold the justices ' decision . |
| 5 | It is obvious that if the present decision is undisturbed attention must be paid to the quite new arrangements prescribed by section 19(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 which provides , so far as is relevant , that any jurisdiction of the High Court shall be exercised only by a single judge of that court , except in so far as it is , by or by virtue of rules of court or any other statutory provision , required to be exercised by a divisional court . |
| 6 | What I mean is , it 's a personal matter except in so far as it affects the syllabus . |
| 7 | There is no reason why a male bird should signal accurate information to its competitors , except in so far as it will scare them away . |
| 8 | The nominal value is meaningless and may be misleading , except in so far as it determines the minimum liability . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that the majority of students in adult education are women , the majority of volunteers , part-time workers , detached workers , and assistant workers in adult education are women , those with key jobs in the career structure — mostly men — made no recognition of this fact , except in so far as it influenced their assumptions about ‘ relevant ’ curricula and enabled them to plan programmes which depended upon an enormous amount of female exploitation . |
| 10 | The price is not important except in so far as it determines the number of units to be created after subscriptions have been received . |
| 11 | He was jealous of Florian , she accepted , but she could take little comfort or encouragement from the knowledge , except in so far as it meant that he was n't ready to put an end to their affair quite yet . |
| 12 | ‘ Twenty-eight hectares , not big really — except in so far as it 's in a totally built-up area . ’ |
| 13 | Under s8 of UCTA 1977 , s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 is replaced by the following : 3 — If a contract contains a term which would exclude or restrict ( a ) any liability to which a party to a contract may be subject by reason of any misrepresentation made by him before the contract was made ; or ( b ) any remedy available to another party to the contract by reason of such a misrepresentation , that term shall be of no effect except in so far as it satisfies the requirement of reasonableness as stated in s11(1) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ; and it is for those claiming that the term satisfies that requirement to show that it does . |
| 14 | And it it really is covered by the passages in erm erm , just , I just reiterate that that that expressly referring your Lordship to it , professional duty except in so far as it may be necessary to elucidate the rules that that was at page eight hundred and forty one at the bottom and it goes over the page to eight four two and then proceeds to general proposition to those two experts ordinary witness may not may not give their opinions towards matters legal or moral obligation . |
| 15 | Awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock was spread much more evenly throughout the electorate , and in so far as it did vary it was particularly high amongst those who had recently watched television news or had recently discussed the campaign ( Table 7.7 ) . |
| 16 | By the end of the campaign that was no longer so true : awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock had spread much more evenly through the electorate and in so far as it did vary it was particularly high amongst those who had recently watched television news or discussed the campaign . |
| 17 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 18 | And in so far as it , as the question arises erm of what kind of , of provisions erm are you going to find if you go abroad , erm then I think we can say that within the European Community , erm citizens of one member state are entitled to what the citizens of the member state in which they happen to be staying are entitled to . |
| 19 | Both reformers and opponents had expected a more striking change in the size of the electorate but in so far as it introduced a new class to political influence the Great Reform Act deserves to be considered a revolution no less and perhaps more — than do the events of 1830 in Paris . |
| 20 | A striking example of their dissociation is provided by the following exchange : on the one hand , Runciman takes it for granted that methodological individualism is ‘ now generally conceded to be almost trivially true ’ , while on the other Torrance asserts that ‘ In so far as methodological individualism is true it is trivial and irrelevant to sociology , while in so far as it is used to curb or dictate explanatory methods it is either incoherent or false ’ . |