Example sentences of "[adv] far [conj] the [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as the housekeeping was concerned , Leopold had to admit that Constanze was doing a good job , and seemed to be extremely economical . |
| 2 | ‘ In so far as the patient was being phased off this treatment , ’ he had begun , pointing with the back of his pen to certain entries on Commander Barnwell 's chart , ‘ it would be technically correct to say that there has been a minor error . ’ |
| 3 | So far as the debt was concerned , the first success was in converting most of the short-term , high-interest credit which had stemmed from the wartime issue of government bills to a funded 5 per cent stock in 1784 – 5 . |
| 4 | But , in so far as the subject was addressed , the dominant view was that by integrating modern industry into the communal structure Russia could enjoy its benefits without enduring proletarianization . |
| 5 | This was a most unusual indication of the strength of public feeling , for it was apparently motivated , so far as the Ministry was concerned , by the desire to ‘ steal the thunder ’ of the Communist Party and prevent that body from obtaining the credit for the popular enthusiasm . |
| 6 | So far as the curriculum was concerned , the policies and practices of many LEAs were seen as detrimental to quality . |
| 7 | Designed to nip in the bud any incipient growth in villages , it was successful , so far as the city was concerned , probably because it did no more than sanction the existing situation , even though in the fifteenth century the trade had flourished at Hartlebury , which remained an important centre of the specialised craft of fulling . |
| 8 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 9 | But so far as the economy was concerned , lack of reach was a much bigger problem than lack of speed . |
| 10 | In the cases that followed ( ie the disposal of the whole of the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 3 ) ; a conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 4 ) ; and the conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to a third party ( Chapter 5 ) ) , once the husband had disposed of his interest no further tax considerations applied so far as the husband was concerned ( unless there was an element of gift involved in the conveyance not at arm 's length and the husband died within seven years , thus bringing in a charge to inheritance tax ) . |
| 11 | Of course , if and in so far as the power was derived from the Crown as the fountain of justice : see , in a different context , Lincoln v. Daniels [ 1962 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 12 | Indeed , in so far as the left was urban , secularist or even militantly anti-clerical ( see chapter 14 below ) and both contemptuous of rural ‘ backwardness ’ and unappreciative of country problems , the peasantry might still be full of suspicion and hostility towards it . |
| 13 | The new economic climate of the late sixteenth century brought advantages and disadvantages so far as the funeral was concerned . |
| 14 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 15 | The third is ‘ ideal-typical ’ , as when we invoke microeconomic theory in order to model the rational choice by the agent ( in so far as the action was zweckrational ) . |
| 16 | What the local authority wished to do under the interim care order was assess the mother with these children and protect the children so far as the father was concerned . |
| 17 | But one thing for certain , as far as the tour was concerned , French was not going to be caught with his pants down . |
| 18 | Morris , Hoggart and Hudson agreed that the afternoon 's debate on press and public relations would be a doddle as far as the platform was concerned . |
| 19 | Moreover , as far as the USA was concerned — but vestigially this was probably also true of the USSR before the Gorbachev era — the basic conflict was ideological , the triumph of the ‘ right ’ ideology being equated with the supremacy of the appropriate superpower . |
| 20 | She had certainly been up every road as far as the Order was concerned . |
| 21 | They fully considered that there was merit , great merit , in running it as far as the Council was concerned . |
| 22 | As far as the BBC was concerned there could n't be enough semi-finals like Portsmouth v Liverpool . |
| 23 | In retrospect , was leaving Lotus alone the wrong thing to do as far as the Elan was concerned ? |
| 24 | As far as the school was concerned , the fact that so many parents attended a parents ' evening was ‘ an indication of the kind of area we are dealing with … where parents are interested in their children 's education and want to play as full a part as possible . ’ |
| 25 | Yet they were clearly important considerations as far as the school was concerned . |
| 26 | As far as the School was concerned , the Headmaster ( reappointed ) was requested to purchase books and stationery , to be sold to the pupils , and " pens , ink , inkpots , and indiarubber " which were to be supplied free of charge . |
| 27 | As far as the company was concerned , as one drifted nearer to insolvency , any rescuer who appeared would have been welcome provided we 'd been absolutely assured at the critical time when the loss of £92m was announced that a rescue was legally binding , underwritten and in place . |
| 28 | The apartment was ‘ burned ’ as far as the Company was concerned and they had no further use for it . |
| 29 | In another change of tack — there was a time when OS/2 was the whole future as far as the company was concerned , Microsoft Corp is switching its signals and is now making it clear that it expects MS-DOS users to prepare to switch to Windows NT . |
| 30 | But as far as the church was concerned it was no joke when he refused to take excommunication seriously . |