Example sentences of "[adv] so far [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might suppose it was already quite strong even if nothing else was done , especially so far as CD-ROM is concerned . |
| 2 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The jury 's verdict is " final " only so far as punishment by the criminal court is concerned . |
| 5 | Sometimes the Constitution limits the executive or subordinate local bodies ; sometimes it limits the legislature also , but only so far as amendment of the Constitution itself is concerned ; and sometimes it imposes restrictions upon the legislature which go far beyond this point and forbid it to make laws upon certain subjects or in a certain way or with certain effects . |
| 6 | Thus so far as difficulty in settling for ourselves , or agreeing with others , on the right answer to an ethical question turns on disagreement or doubt about factual matters , agreement on which would cause settled or agreed ethical attitudes , there is a place for reason in ethics . |
| 7 | The two biggest Third World countries , China and India , were , by contrast with Brazil , doing well so far as growth rates are concerned . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proposals he has to improve marine safety , particularly so far as fishing boat losses are concerned . |
| 9 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 10 | It is in Darién , however — at least so far as Panama 's administrators are concerned . |
| 11 | Still , to some extent , every modern economy , at least so far as ownership of some means of production or municipal enterprises or financial institutions are concerned , is a mixed economy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To the outsider , psychoanalysis appears a pretty broad church , at least so far as dream interpretation is concerned . |
| 14 | Questions about the products suitability for use with forthcoming Apple products are met with a degree of silence reminiscent of a Trappist monk but the general assurance is that the product is ‘ future proof ’ , at least so far as Apple is concerned . |
| 15 | The meeting , however , failed to produce a satisfactory outcome ( at least so far as Harold Wilson was concerned ) , and I wrote a letter to the BBC demanding an apology in some ensuing programme . |
| 16 | After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned . |
| 17 | At least so far as chess is concerned , working on the level of ideas , instead of specific calculations , seems to let a tremendous amount of imprecision into one 's thinking . |
| 18 | There are basically three types , at least so far as desktop publishers are concerned ; Bit maps , photographs and object oriented graphics . |
| 19 | So , if we accept that the Macintosh and the PC were designed differently , work differently and treat the user differently which is going to be the best — at least so far as desktop publishing is concerned ? |
| 20 | Soil-nutrients have been found to be at similar levels as under mature forest , at least so far as phosphorus , organic carbon and nitrogen are concerned , though the pH and cation concentrations are higher . |
| 21 | Equally , however , the substantial de facto mobility out of the manual working class has not dissolved its traditional collectivist propensities , at least so far as trade unionism is concerned . |