Example sentences of "so far as it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 32 | On the other hand , the very pursuit of ‘ respectability ’ , especially in so far as it involved claims to status recognition and participation in local institutions , was a source of social tension , a focal point in the growth of class identity . |
| 33 | The Revolution had impinged on their consciousness only in so far as it provided them with land , or took away foodstuffs during War Communism . |
| 34 | Despite the fact that the majority of students in adult education are women , the majority of volunteers , part-time workers , detached workers , and assistant workers in adult education are women , those with key jobs in the career structure — mostly men — made no recognition of this fact , except in so far as it influenced their assumptions about ‘ relevant ’ curricula and enabled them to plan programmes which depended upon an enormous amount of female exploitation . |
| 35 | This ‘ immediacy ’ of meaning in oral society he relates to the society 's functional needs , citing Malinowski 's claim that ‘ in the Trobriands the outer world was only named in so far as it yielded useful things ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 36 | Awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock was spread much more evenly throughout the electorate , and in so far as it did vary it was particularly high amongst those who had recently watched television news or had recently discussed the campaign ( Table 7.7 ) . |
| 37 | By the end of the campaign that was no longer so true : awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock had spread much more evenly through the electorate and in so far as it did vary it was particularly high amongst those who had recently watched television news or discussed the campaign . |
| 38 | Secondly , in so far as it spoke to a general enlargement of the mind , the student experience was not confined to the acquisition of mere technique . |
| 39 | Victorian Social Darwinism was still alive in the late 1950s and , in so far as it shaped the vocabulary of ‘ maintaining social standards ’ used by the supporters of immigration control … it contributed to a climate of opinion favouring immigration control . |