Example sentences of "[adv] far as [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Although we can not honestly say that those who unsuccessfully oppose a particular decision or policy consent to that decision or policy when it is carried out despite their opposition , we can say that they are nevertheless bound by that decision in so far as they accept both the principle of majority decisions and the fairness of the procedures through which the decision is reached or the policy made . |
| 3 | He added that this order would leave it open to the Press to deal with the questions of principle so far as they did not apply them to the facts . |
| 4 | Secondly , the Rules were flawed in so far as they did not seem to anticipate the possibility of problems created by the piecemeal acquisition of bonds either by occasional buying out or by gift . |
| 5 | Such an attitude reflected the determination to decapitate the lower classes , in so far as they did not shed their potential leaders spontaneously by absorption into the lower middle class . |
| 6 | Of contracts for the benefit of the infant , so far as they do not coincide with contracts for necessaries , a contract for the employment of the infant , where his position in life makes employment desirable for him , is a typical case . |
| 7 | In order to promote these purposes the Secretary of State , normally on the advice of the Health and Safety Commission , has power to make ‘ health and safety regulations ’ which will give rise to civil liability except in so far as they provide otherwise . |
| 8 | In so far as it reached out beyond the rather eccentric sect of the Comtist ‘ Religion of Humanity ’ , positivism became little more than a philosophical justification of the conventional method of the experimental sciences , and similarly for most contemporaries Mill was , again in the words of Taine , the man who had opened up ‘ the good old road of induction and experiment ’ . |
| 9 | Of the three gradation schemes under discussion , the Canadian is the simplest in so far as it creates only three degrees of offence . |
| 10 | The emperor 's approach is to adhere to that principle and hold the trust to be valid in so far as it does not conflict with it : that is , as far as the daughter benefited under her father 's will . |
| 11 | Furthermore s. 2(4) European Communities Act 1972 provides that any Act of the Westminster Parliament shall be presumed not to conflict with EEC legislation , and will be given effect only so far as it does not conflict with the EEC legislation . |
| 12 | To the Sufi the divine is in all things and manifested to the seer , and it is this divine attribute that he sees and which is transferred to the work of the poet and the mystic ; and that work is authentic in so far as it depicts faithfully the himma or emotional part of the event . |
| 13 | In so far as it comments extensively on his main life work , usually but not always positively , it seems more appropriate that his contribution , while fully acknowledged , should be classified as ‘ informal ’ . |
| 14 | The teaching body in the university , so far as it has not joined ‘ The Thing ’ , has always preferred to accept the philosophy of ‘ The Thing ’ rather than reassert what it well knew was the requisite of any academic society . |
| 15 | First , where the obligations are non-cumulative , i.e. the obligation of each is to perform in so far as it has not been performed by any other party , the acceptance of some other performance in lieu of the promised performance relieves the others . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As far as we 've ever heard your group has never told anyone you have us . ’ |
| 18 | She would hardly have been able to get as far as she had already without a very strong image of the outlines of the world , of her own personal dream . |
| 19 | And th th they have n't got a twang as far as I know anyway so |
| 20 | But I am quite clear that the new system should have a trial under the most favourable possible circumstances ; and the mere fact that the new Chairman of the War Council did prefer , and , as far as I know still prefers , a different arrangement is , to my mind , quite conclusive , and leaves me in no doubt as to the manner in which I can best assist the Government which I desire to support . |
| 21 | Erm certainly on the rescue tenders , erm erm on , on each division would have that equipment , it 's not carried on every fire engine as far as I know now , erm I , I do n't see why it should n't but er again I think it 's a matter of cost , and , and carrying it about as well and finding the space for it , but certainly it 's at hand when it 's needed . |
| 22 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |