Example sentences of "so far [conj] [noun sg] [be] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So far as publicity is concerned , I naturally leave it up to you if it is indispensable … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In so far as economics is offered as a model of explanation , a theory of individual behaviour is likely to be a component of International Relations theories as much as of theories of microeconomics . |
| 18 | The bailor warrants that he has the right to transfer possession for the period of the bailment , and that the bailee will enjoy quiet possession for the period of the bailment except so far as possession is disturbed by the owner or other person entitled to the benefit of any charge or encumbrance disclosed or known to the bailee before the contract was made . |
| 19 | It is not contended that the duty arose out of contract : the contract was between the defendants and Mrs. Walker , and so far as contract is concerned it was to Mrs. Walker the defendants were liable for breach of it . |
| 20 | So far as service is concerned , this , in the county court , is the responsibility of the court itself and the judge should satisfy himself that service has been promptly effected . |
| 21 | So far as distance is concerned , it is much better to use time instead , and you wo n't have to worry about speed . |
| 22 | If more output is obtained from the same manpower — which it is here contended could and should happen — then the allocation of resources so far as manpower is concerned will be unaffected . |
| 23 | So far as mining is concerned , the long colliery shifts of the nineteenth century do not seem to have been usual in the eighteenth . |
| 24 | 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' . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | These are variously indebted , but in so far as authorship is attributable they are the joint work of the writer of the paper and Euan Reid . |
| 28 | So far as radiation is concerned , the major factor to be examined is cross-country variation in natural exposure , from radon and such-like . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Output at this level is optimal not only for the firm , but also for society , because the type and quantity of goods produced will match the demand for them , at least in so far as demand is represented by the willingness and ability of the consumer to pay . |