Example sentences of "so [adv] as [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well these things may er describe erm sexual behaviour and how to facilitate it , but they ca n't explain it and nor are they really fundamental , because after all okay in mammals males may be the sex defined by the X chromosome , but in birds it 's the other way round in birds it 's the female chromosome and all , in other words , all bird embryos start , start out as male and differentiate into females if they 're going to , whereas in mammals all embryos start out as female and differentiate into males , in so far as those terms have any sense . |
| 32 | In so far as these matters were not already solved , the automatic operations of market economics ( on which the analysis therefore concentrated henceforward ) would solve them , to the extent that they were not beyond human solution . |
| 33 | Genetics and biology have little to tell us that is relevant , except in so far as these sciences throw light on human nature in general . |
| 34 | In so far as any rules had been devised in the past , the principle seems to have been to give power to someone close to the throne , and invested therefore with some of the aura of royalty . |
| 35 | Whether the mother or the father is younger or if they are of the same age , has little effect on the infants ' survival chances , in so far as both parents are in the age most favourable to procreate healthy infants . |
| 36 | The karate bout has some similarities with a boxing match in so far as both contestants move around the ring exchanging blows . |