Example sentences of "so [adv] as it can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where a trustee has misappropriated trust property the fund may still preserve its identity , and , so long as it can be identified , the rights of the beneficiaries will attach to the fund into whatever form it may have been converted by him . |
| 2 | the Crown is not bound to take the advice of a particular Ministry to put its subjects to the tumult and turmoil of a series of general elections so long as it can find other Ministers who are prepared to give it a trial . |
| 3 | Hinshaw makes a distinction between the ‘ cognitive ’ and ‘ evocative ’ contents of knowledge suggesting that the ‘ truth ’ , at the semantic and syntactic levels , can be considered in isolation from the social basis of knowledge in so far as it can be shown to be cognitive rather than evocative . |
| 4 | Human behaviour enters social reality in so far as it can be given a meaning . |
| 5 | His conclusion was that a moving object , so far as it can , goes on moving . |
| 6 | In general terms , however , the present state of the law is that an individual who has reached the age of 18 is free to do with his life what he wishes , but it is the duty of the court to ensure so far as it can that children survive to attain that age . |
| 7 | Yet , in so far as it can be pinned down , this is the sort of crime fiction that many writers today want to write , and many , many readers want to read . |
| 8 | Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well . |
| 9 | Several studies , for example , suggest that departmental productivity , in so far as it can be measured , has improved significantly in recent years . |