Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] so far as [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Septimus Coffin could call on forty years of experience , and in so far as Latin could be made entertaining , he made it so .
2 Like clings to like , and in so far as Hilary Frome had friends of his own age — mostly he had followers — those friends were Willis and Quigly .
3 If and in so far as Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon [ 1986 ] Q.B .
4 Every schoolchild the world over knows the profile of the Taj , and in so far as Safdarjung 's tomb is different , it at first sight looks wrong : its lines look somehow faulty , naggingly incorrect .
5 Most of the Cubists were united in declaring that theirs was an art of realism , and in so far as Cubism was concerned with reinterpreting the external world in a detached , objective way it was also in a sense a classical art .
6 In literate society , these interlocking conversations go on ; but they are no longer man 's only dialogue ; and in so far as writing provides an alternative source for the transmission of cultural orientations it favours awareness of inconsistency .
7 Most often associated with the school of functional sociology , these ideas have as axiomatic a pluralist integrative approach to political development , in which the centre is synonymous with authority ; and in so far as societies fail to conform with the model of integrated consensual authority , they are not properly modern .
8 These are variously indebted , but in so far as authorship is attributable they are the joint work of the writer of the paper and Euan Reid .
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