Example sentences of "[adv] far [conj] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | According to Bulpitt , ‘ in so far as monetarism was associated … with ‘ arms ' length ’ , anti-corporatist government , then … the statecraft ( of monetarism ) must be viewed as less a radical break with the past and more as an attempt to reconstruct it' . |
| 6 | WP Yes , but South Korea started from a nil base so far as industrialisation was concerned and with labour costs not much above peasant-subsistence level . |
| 7 | So far as Delicacy was concerned , I did n't have a care in the world , and yet I smoked and drank like a quadraplegic bankrupt . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In fact , in so far as religion was involved , the contrary was probably the case , as the ideas of the Reformation affected the nobles and the town dwellers more than the peasants . |
| 10 | So far as privacy was concerned , Malone accepted that there was no general right to privacy in English law , but argued that there was a particular right of privacy , namely the right to hold a telephone conversation in one 's home without molestation . |
| 11 | I took the view , shared by counsel , that no similar privilege was justified so far as copyright was concerned . |
| 12 | In any event , in so far as Congress was interested in Asia , and had assumed many direct responsibilities , its concern was with military assistance and 99-year leases on bases in the Philippines and the dilemmas of policy that these signalled towards China . |
| 13 | All were virtually identical , certainly in so far as bodywork was concerned . |
| 14 | In so far as attention was given to foreign affairs , there was a powerful inclination to test out the potential of the United Nations . |
| 15 | It was an overcast day and not the height of the season as far as tourism was concerned . |
| 16 | None the less , as far as education was concerned , the policies followed were not dissimilar . |
| 17 | As far as education was concerned , for example , Frelimo 's point of departure was an illiteracy rate of 93 per cent , compared with about 50 per cent in Nicaragua . |
| 18 | The situation arising from this all-too-common attitude was as follows : in the evening she was placing herself in a situation of maximum temptation as far as diet-breaking was concerned with time on her hands and food and drink all too readily available . |
| 19 | By the thirteenth century , as far as marriage was concerned , church authorities were insisting on the importance of marriage taking place before witnesses in public . |
| 20 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 21 | My dancing partner and her parents turned up , a little bit embarrassing for me as my French was very limited as far as conversation was concerned . |
| 22 | As far as conversation was concerned , there was one golden rule : a gentleman should avoid telling shaggy-dog stories . |
| 23 | Muhammad had certainly covered the ground as far as etiquette was concerned . |
| 24 | In 1931 , however , they were all still comparatively innocent as far as publication was concerned . |
| 25 | And as far as delicacy was concerned were not pleasing in themselves . |
| 26 | Today threatened to be a write-off as far as work was concerned , but perhaps she could recoup some of the lost time later on . |
| 27 | Not a partnership — strangely for someone so set in his own ways , Ken would be willing to do as he was told , as far as work was concerned . |
| 28 | As Davy wrote later , John Buddle , the mine inspector , convinced him that , ‘ as far as ventilation was concerned , the resources of modern science had been fully employed ; and that a mode of preventing accidents was only to be sought for in a method of lighting the mines free from danger . ’ |
| 29 | As far as surface was concerned , and even width , there was little to choose between them . |
| 30 | He thought he was the odd man out as far as nationality was concerned because everybody else , including me , was North American . |