Example sentences of "[adv] far as this [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most fields , the Stormont government aimed to follow British practice in so far as this benefited its citizens but to act separately when special local conditions required separate treatment . |
| 2 | In so far as this involves finding more and more ingenious ways of keeping as many people as possible away from unspoilt parts of rural England , there is common ground between some visitors to the countryside and many of those who live and work there . |
| 3 | Independence , in so far as this entailed freedom from obligation to a politician , was thus restricted to men with independent wealth and few dependents , but for most freeholders the friendship of a politician was a necessity at some point in their lives . |
| 4 | In so far as this amounts to treating women less favourably than men , because they are women , it is unlawful . |
| 5 | In so far as this affects the contemporary architecture , the Ostrogothic work in Italy has already been discussed ( see Volume I , Ravenna ) but the Visigothic work in northern Spain was influential as was the effect of the Merovingian culture in northern France leading to the Carolingian dynasty in northern Europe under Charlemagne . |