Example sentences of "so far as the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 So far as the dispersers are concerned , being generalist would overcome the problems of poor years of any particular plant species , which , in any case , rarely fruit continuously throughout the year .
2 I hasten to add that no curse caused it — no hex or bewitchment , so far as the Adepts can determine ; nor even any lapse in liturgy .
3 So far as the Directors are aware , the close company provisions of the Corporation Tax Act 1976 do not apply .
4 So far as the Directors are aware , the Company is not a close company for taxation purposes .
5 In so far as the members of the professions themselves believed in such an ideal and oriented their behaviour in accordance with it ( and therefore against pure self-interest ) , they created the conditions under which trust could be offered and accepted .
6 On an appeal by the plaintiff the Court of Appeal held ( dismissing the appeal ) that in so far as the rules of the club provided that two of its officers were to be responsible in law for the conduct of the club then ( in the absence of an express provision that the officers were responsible for the condition of the club premises ) the rules did not give rise to a duty of care towards individual members to maintain the club premises in a reasonable state of safety and repair .
7 But anyway nineteen ninety three has been another successful year for the Garrick , which started , so far as the productions are concerned with the pantomime , Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves directed by Jill her debut as a director , hopefully not her last .
8 So far as the ferrets ' accommodation is concerned , I prefer a roomy hutch with separate sleeping quarters .
9 Some governments , notably the UK , argue that the Fifth Directive should be based on Article 100 ( general harmonisation of national laws ) at least in so far as the provisions on employee representation at board level are concerned , since it deals with the rights of employed persons which fall outside the scope of freedom of establishment governed by Article 54 .
10 Thus in so far as the provisions of the Act of 1987 are ambiguous , guidance can be sought from the Order of 1991 in the same way as guidance can be sought from a later enactment for the construction of an earlier one : Kirkness v. John Hudson & Co . Ltd .
11 But , so far as the Exercises goes , all of this is underplayed .
12 The results of this tour , so far as the ladies of the party were concerned , tended to confirm all my previous impressions of their valour and vigour , and also to the strengthening of my determination never to undertake or propose any arrangement from which the ladies must of course be excluded .
13 Wilson later admitted that so far as the shipowners were concerned , " It was blow given and blow returned .
14 I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms .
15 Many writers viewed this strategy as doubtful or worse so far as the laws of war were concerned ( Builder and Graubard , 1982 ) .
16 Article 6 of the Convention also declared that its provisions did not preclude any of the following so far as the laws of the concerned states or conventions entered into between them allowed :
17 So far as the merits of the instant appeal are concerned , I , like my noble and learned friends , Lord Bridge of Harwich and Lord Browne-Wilkinson , was in favour of dismissing the appeal at the conclusion of the first hearing .
18 In so far as the reforms accelerated the growth of capitalism and differentiation between employer and employee among the peasantry , they served only to intensify the misery and oppression of the poorer peasants , to advance the struggle between rich and poor peasants .
19 So far as the ceremonies of investiture were concerned , he himself had lived , and could live , with either the old or the new .
20 So far as the families of those involved in disciplinary proceedings are concerned , we do not even count as worth a thought ( ‘ Guilty until proven innocent ’ , 4 March ) .
21 In so far as the actions since 1979 have politicized areas hitherto relatively immune to such considerations they provide pretexts for a future Labour government to intervene in these spheres .
22 This follows an après-ski dinner at La Rocca mountain restaurant , accompanied by singing and , so far as the adults are concerned , much passing of the ceremonial grolla , a multi-spouted loving cup containing a potent alcoholic brew .
23 So far as the Gospels themselves are concerned , Jesus may indeed have been King of the Jews — and/or been so regarded .
24 The issue would appear to be a novel one so far as the researches of counsel go .
25 So far as the seamen were concerned , the impossible had been achieved .
26 As both crimes carried an automatic death sentence , along with many others , so far as the prisoners were concerned , any specific charge was purely academic .
27 In so far as the letters make statements about what is happening in the territory of some foreign state , such letters may not be the best evidence ; but as regards the question whether Her Majesty 's Government has dealings with the foreign government it will almost certainly be the best and only conclusive evidence of that fact .
28 Decision : the aggravating features of the offence were the age of the victim ( 61 ) , the fact that as a taxi driver he was vulnerable and an easy target ; the isolated location in which the offence was committed ; the degree of violence and the fact that it continued after the theft had been completed ; the fact that the victim had been left , so far as the offenders were aware , unconscious , and the fact that two men were involved , and an implement may have been used .
29 John-Paul Sartre , in Being and Nothingness , writes : ‘ So far as the physicians have had any experience with my body , it was with my body in the midst of the world and as it is for others .
30 One of BRAC 's concerns at present is to see whether the lobon-gur solution has become part of the Bangladeshi culture , in so far as the mothers taught by BRAC 's Oral Therapy Replacement Workers might pass their knowledge down to their children .
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