Example sentences of "so far [conj] [noun sg] [was/were] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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' . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In fact , in so far as religion was involved , the contrary was probably the case , as the ideas of the Reformation affected the nobles and the town dwellers more than the peasants . |
| 10 | So far as privacy was concerned , Malone accepted that there was no general right to privacy in English law , but argued that there was a particular right of privacy , namely the right to hold a telephone conversation in one 's home without molestation . |
| 11 | I took the view , shared by counsel , that no similar privilege was justified so far as copyright was concerned . |
| 12 | In any event , in so far as Congress was interested in Asia , and had assumed many direct responsibilities , its concern was with military assistance and 99-year leases on bases in the Philippines and the dilemmas of policy that these signalled towards China . |
| 13 | All were virtually identical , certainly in so far as bodywork was concerned . |
| 14 | In so far as attention was given to foreign affairs , there was a powerful inclination to test out the potential of the United Nations . |