Example sentences of "[prep] so far as [pers pn] had " in BNC.

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1 On the left , the attitude of Moscow and the Third International , in so far as they had any influence at all in Spain before the war , was to encourage Popular Front democracy and discourage revolution .
2 Whatever the law might hold , no one could argue that the methods used by Esmail and Everington amounted to fraud , in so far as they had neither the intention nor the potential to gain an advantage .
3 But at that time it was n't what you 'd call modern in so far as you had n't got hot water from a sort of gas fir Electric heating .
4 I find that an extraordinary statement of policy , because I had always believed that , in so far as it had any justification at all , the Labour party 's commitment to unilateralism , to the closure of bases , to the withdrawal from NATO , was based on a principle — on a deeply held conviction that those things were wrong .
5 He was grappling to define love itself , in so far as he had experienced it and now understood it .
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