Example sentences of "so far as [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the morass of detail Mills brings forward to describe his ‘ power elite ’ , it is easy to ignore this fundamental assumption which precedes his empirical work : ‘ In so far as the power elite is composed of men of similar origin and education , in so far as their careers and their styles of life are similar , there are psychological and social bases for their unity , resting upon the fact that they are of similar social type and leading to the fact of their easy intermingling ’ . |
| 2 | Why ca n't the woman be assessed as an individual , and benefit paid in so far as her resources are insufficient to meet her requirements ? |
| 3 | They will therefore be interested in the firm only in so far as its activities and financial structure influence the risk class of the bonds . |
| 4 | But capitalism , after Indian independence , was ( in so far as its effects on the rural population were concerned ) merely following along the paths established by British colonialism and British capitalism . |
| 5 | I prefer to apply the principle that a promise intended to be binding , intended to be acted on and in fact acted on , is binding so far as its terms properly apply . |
| 6 | The duel in which Lermontov was soon to die is said to have been patterned , so far as its arrangements went , on the one in the novel : the outcome , however , was perceptibly different . |
| 7 | He was correct in so far as our forebears were piteously shattered but quite wrong in thinking that they could be subjugated . |
| 8 | It seems to me that , so far as my feelings about it are concerned , my life can be most conveniently divided into two halves : |
| 9 | If you have visitors who let the cover droop helplessly , like a child raised by one arm and dangling in mid-air , cross them off your visiting list so far as your books are concerned . |