Example sentences of "[adv] far as [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The design point is a good one so far as it goes … |
| 32 | In fact , another species of bee that communicates about food sources ( Apis florica ) does so in the same way except in so far as it wiggles in the horizontal rather than the vertical plane , and so can indicate directly the angle of the food source from the sun . |
| 33 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 34 | Of the three gradation schemes under discussion , the Canadian is the simplest in so far as it creates only three degrees of offence . |
| 35 | Whilst other sections of the population are clearly severely affected by these government policies , disabled people experience these particular ‘ reforms ’ as an attack on their human right not to be incarcerated without trial and conviction , in so far as it renders it in some cases impossible to live outside institutions . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | It goes in the right direction in so far as it does aim to re to continue to reduction in migration , but it does n't go far enough . |
| 39 | The nominal value is meaningless and may be misleading , except in so far as it determines the minimum liability . |
| 40 | The price is not important except in so far as it determines the number of units to be created after subscriptions have been received . |
| 41 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 42 | Law and custom thus defend the family as the prime agent of socialisation only in so far as it fulfils the task currently prescribed . |
| 43 | In that regard , the note in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 , p. 726 is correct , in so far as it states in relation to R.S.C. , Ord. 45 , r. 3 : |
| 44 | As strategic proposals emerge , each subsystem will evaluate them against developments in other subsystems , in so far as it perceives them to affect it too . |
| 45 | And it seems that the money , in so far as it emerges in budgets that clearly , is determined by crude political muscle and nothing to do with reason and analysis — all the things that you stood for in the sixties and seventies . |
| 46 | In addition , the new knowledge about economic and demographic change in the past has suggested that it is urgent to reconsider several aspects of the received wisdom about the industrial revolution , notably the assumptions made by contemporaries about declining marginal returns in agriculture ; changes in the occupational structure of the English labour force before and during the industrial revolution ; and , more generally , the viability of the concept itself so far as it connotes a unitary and progressive phenomenon . |
| 47 | Next , it will support the claim that corporate power is justifiable only in so far as it promotes the public interest , and accordingly that society is entitled to demand that company policies serve that interest . |
| 48 | The literary tradition is valued in so far as it offers a critical evaluation of this transformation and its consequences . |
| 49 | Product market signals can , however , be amplified by linking management remuneration to company performance , and thus while the market may be largely ineffective in so far as it offers threats , it can be made to function better by providing incentives . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | However , our basic model may be criticized in advance of this discussion in so far as it ignores the monetary effects of fiscal decisions and so may overstate the case in favour of macroeconomic management through this route . |
| 52 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 53 | Indeed , the passage in Megarry on The Rent Acts , at pp. 386–387 is wrong , in so far as it suggests that there may be a right in a landlord to re-enter peaceably , in the circumstances of this sort of case , between an order for possession and execution of the order by the bailiff . |
| 54 | 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 ’ . |
| 55 | In this chapter we have only really attended to the negative , critical , edge of left theory in so far as it challenges rival perspectives on parties and pressures . |
| 56 | However , this makes no difference to what has been stated above , since the judgment in the Brugnoni case is based , as the Commission points out , on the general objective of the First Directive in so far as it applies to transactions with the Directive liberalised , and it is clear from Commission of the European Communities v. Hellenic Republic ( Case 194/84 ) [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4737 , 4750 , para. 9 , that capital movements set out in list A also benefit from ‘ unconditional liberalisation . ’ |
| 57 | In so far as it applies to Arabic , for instance , it suggests that an ego-centred pattern which is perfectly feasible and natural in English has to be replaced in most contexts by a process-centred pattern which is far more typical of Arabic . |
| 58 | This volume however is both unusual and welcome because it deals specifically with the work of Julia Kristeva ; it is informative in so far as it indicates the cross-disciplinary implications of her work , and it maintains a balance between the introductory and the complex . |
| 59 | The chapter sets the tenor for the whole work in so far as it tries to examine the social conditions under which blacks became involved in sport , first in the USA and then in Great Britain . |
| 60 | But so long as the distinction remains , disaffection in so far as it appeals to existing principles of legitimacy , can be both conservative and loyal . |