Example sentences of "[prep] so far [subord] that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Rawls ' theory deviates from comprehensive neutrality in requiring equal ability to pursue ideals of the good only in so far as that ability depends on the principle of equal liberty .
2 The judges know nothing about any will of the people except in so far as that will is expressed by an Act of Parliament , and would never suffer the validity of a statute to be questioned on the ground of its having been passed or kept alive in opposition to the wishes of the electors . ’
3 For the middle class and the rich it was increasingly tourism , essentially the product of the railway , the steamship and ( in so far as that invention of our period , the picture postcard , is still an essential part of it ) of the new scale and speed of postal communications .
4 The interest of how things are resides in their figuration , discernible and expressible by the deeper realist , of how things will be only in so far as that futurity is the truth and the end of how they are and always have been .
5 And virtually everybody who joins the Options Agency has a positive outcome to more than one in some cases , er in so far as that agency is concerned .
6 The court said that the parties had chosen the manner by which they wished to have their disputes resolved , and that the wording of the clause did not leave any scope for saying that , in so far as that matter was one of law , it was to be determined not by the expert but by the court .
7 In so far as that essay gives some warrant to the idea of free-for-all hermeneutics , then , concedes Norris , ‘ ‘ Structure , Sign and Play' ’ is a text which , at least in its closing paragraphs , falls below the highest standards of Derridean argumentative rigour . ’
8 However , corporatists are sharply critical of the pluralist perspective in so far as that perspective sees the interest-groups system as competitive , " democratic " , equal , and open to all , so that it leads to policy outcomes that give fair shares to everyone .
9 But perhaps the best tag for him is ‘ hippy ’ , in so far as that term has become , for post-punk critic and consumer alike , a cipher for pretension , over-inflation and over-reach .
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