Example sentences of "so far [conj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So far as Government Bills are concerned , it is no exaggeration to say that the substantial task of legislating will have been largely discharged before the Bill is even read a first time in the House in which it is introduced ( Bills may normally be introduced in either House , thence proceeding to the other ) .
2 To put it another way , mothers are by far the most important ‘ significant others ’ so far as housework behaviour is concerned .
3 So far as state education is concerned , increasingly free rein is being given to this power .
4 Auguste repressed the traitorous thought that so far as household management went , she would prove like Mr David Copperfield 's ‘ child-wife ’ Dora .
5 Also , in so far as price rises are a reflection of business prosperity , they may also favourably affect the opportunity to organise .
6 These subjects slept like short sleepers in so far as sleep efficiency was improved , and deep slow wave sleep was maintained at baseline levels .
7 Indeed , they may be able to help the would-be Texas traveller by uncovering the fact that Philadelphia or New Hampshire may be more productive places to seek a placement to seek a placement so far as child abuse is concerned .
8 Literacy alone carries advantages in so far as child mortality is concerned .
9 In so far as management budgeting was seen to be a failure , it was because it was perceived to be too much of a finance-led exercise which did not adequately tackle the organisational and behavioural issues .
10 So far as service delivery is concerned , the gap is wider than the traditional division between medical and social needs .
11 So far as boilerplate conditions are concerned , the draftsman can add these to the extent that they seem appropriate and necessary , although he should be sparing given that the aim of the exercise is to produce a relatively short set of commercially acceptable terms and conditions .
12 Somewhat surprisingly , the consequences of sleeping longer than usual are similar to sleeping less , so far as performance decrements are concerned .
13 So far as confession evidence is concerned , the old law emphasized that , to be capable of being entered in evidence , a confession had to be obtained ‘ voluntarily ’ .
14 Turner has demonstrated that so far as cotton weavers were concerned , associational persistence can be reconciled with only sporadic incidence , since the true foundation was the durable one of the habit of association within a " community " of workers , or indeed , in the case of the manufacturing village , within an occupational community .
15 Mr Williamson did n't mention it in his description of the way he 'd arrived , the County Council had arrived at their five hundred and odd hectares and er so far as West Yorkshire 's aware , it 's been ignored or so f as far as we 're aware so far , it 's been ignored .
16 We can only go so far as union negotiators .
17 To the outsider , psychoanalysis appears a pretty broad church , at least so far as dream interpretation is concerned .
18 The outcome was positive in so far as nursing staff who looked after the children were happier about the admissions themselves , and were clearer about the purpose of the admission .
19 So far as demand management is concerned , however , it is now clear that from the 1950s to the mid 1960s budgets were substantially in surplus and hence deflationary [ Matthews , 1968 ] .
20 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 .
21 The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned .
22 So far as consumer markets , and especially mass markets , are concerned , advertising must play a vital role in the first three stages of the process .
23 I think most people would agree that the writings of James Herriot are pretty unimportant so far as book pages are concerned .
24 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 .
25 In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment .
26 After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned .
27 The two biggest Third World countries , China and India , were , by contrast with Brazil , doing well so far as growth rates are concerned .
28 So far as fire risks are concerned , this criticism has been a little overplayed and the Fire Research Station has stated categorically :
29 So far as property rights were concerned the Vice-Chancellor held that words being transmitted by electrical impulses could not in themselves be the subject-matter of property rights .
30 In so far as insolvency law is committed to the principle that property within the apparent ownership of the company should be treated as the company 's in the event of its insolvent liquidation , permitting party autonomy to effect automatic crystallisation undermines this policy .
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