Example sentences of "[adv] far [conj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in small things so far but Dexter was sure , thinking back to the taut image of the man sitting on his sofa the previous night , that he was lying about bigger things as well . |
| 2 | the numbers , unc not in general constant under transformation ; but if the iterations have proceeded so far that I is in the quasi-triangular form , the trace and determinant of ( 3 ) are invariant , so that the complex roots are fixed . |
| 3 | Eventually they ran so far that mines were sited as much as 55m/60yds behind the first German line ; the longest , at Kruisstraat , ran for some 658m/720yds . |
| 4 | By March this year the price of sorghum , wheat and maize in local markets had been depressed so far that farmers were complaining . |
| 5 | The churchyard had emptied , the wedding-carriages had rolled away , taking their fragile gaiety with them to another world so far as Cara was concerned . |
| 6 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of the matter , the authorities required from me a birth certificate from Štanjel , a certificate of Italian citizenship , a certificate from a bishop declaring that I was stato libero so far as marriage was concerned , and goodness knows what else . |
| 7 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 8 | In so far as fairness is used within the traditional adjudicative framework the balancing involved therein may be different in degree but not in kind to that which has always gone on within natural justice itself . |
| 9 | World Peace is a most important , er item affecting everyone in the world ; Gorbachov has been one of the foremost politicians , international politicians to , to make a change in , in , er in the world climate , so far as peace is concerned , and therefore that will certainly help him solve his bread and butter problems in the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | So far as education is concerned , it is known that the government has been concerned for some time about an alleged willingness on the part of some teachers to bring the question of homosexuality out into the open in a way that seeks to normalise it as a form of human relationship . |
| 11 | Broadly , we must agree that in so far as education is failing , it is in its failure to provide some children , too many , with the means to lead a satisfactory life when they leave school . |
| 12 | For extra-Community trade , so far as Britain is concerned , the DNH has worked out how the two systems are to be meshed together , as the UK categories and monetary limits , although similar to those of the EC , are not identical . |
| 13 | My objections were originally on the grounds of freedom , rather than efficiency , although in the event , so far as Britain was concerned , socialism led more to stagnation than to tyranny . |
| 14 | So far as rainwater is concerned , this should discharge cleanly from the roof into an eaves gutter preferably 150mm ( 6in ) in diameter , though 100mm ( 4in ) is acceptable on short runs . |
| 15 | Later he moved over and took his seat in Parliament , where he was able to exploit even grander notions , that public transport be nationalized and another Bill was placed before Parliament , with this in mind , at least in so far as London was concerned . |
| 16 | In England this power has for a very long time been delegated , so far as barristers are concerned , to the Inns of Court : and , for a much shorter time , so far as solicitors are concerned , to the Law Society . |
| 17 | Seisin is a root of title , and it may be said without undue exaggeration that so far as land is concerned there is in England no law of ownership , but only a law of possession . |
| 18 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 19 | in so far as Cooperation is fundamentally opposed to the existing economic basis of society , this meeting of Stratford Cooperators consider it desirable , in order to fully organise and obtain the best results from their political acts , that the advisory committee be instructed to enter into negotiations and act in conjunction with the Trades Council and Labour Representation Committees in the area covered by this Society 's operations . |
| 20 | So far as agriculture is concerned , the production group enables farmers to follow the principles of land consolidation and farm modernisation without the otherwise inevitable forcible retirement or migration . |
| 21 | ‘ Relevant time ’ is defined in similar terms to those applicable to companies so far as preferences are concerned , but a more extended period , of five years , is provided for transactions at an undervalue . |
| 22 | So far as publicity is concerned , I naturally leave it up to you if it is indispensable … |
| 23 | Treasury should be followed , but they may have taken that view precisely because , so far as B was concerned , it was a case of questions being put to a person who had been charged . |
| 24 | I slip into the pitfall of subjectivity with trepidation , but observing my fellow patients , I seemed to discern a distinct pattern so far as stress was concerned . |
| 25 | So far as terminals are concerned , the trend of the 1980s has been overwhelmingly towards the setting up of private distribution depots , so running down BR 's own facilities . |
| 26 | In so far as society is divided into different interests , of which labour and capital are the prototypical examples , it may well be that some interests have more control than others over the development of representations which accord to their perspective and thus their interests . |
| 27 | So far as society is concerned , the middle class culture of work is part of the mainstream social culture ; the working class culture of work is subordinate in terms of social power . |
| 28 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 29 | By December 1940 the news from the African front was very bad so far as Italy was concerned . |
| 30 | Some of the judges thought that one effect of rule 3(7) was to abolish the distinction , so far as standing was concerned , between mandamus on the one hand , and certiorari and prohibition on the other ; but at least two of their Lordships were less certain on this point . |