Example sentences of "so far [subord] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 So far as practical consequences are concerned , we need still to bear in mind how far this falls short of a general protection in rem ; difficulty , as always , would arise in proving the bad faith of the possessor .
2 We have no intention to emigrate so far as present plans are concerned .
3 Thus , in so far as middle-class women are more likely to perceive the low status of the housewife role , they are more likely than their working-class sisters to be dissatisfied with it .
4 So far as alternative remedies are concerned , if the alternative is provided by statute then deference to Parliamentary intention can be called in aid of requiring recourse to the alternative .
5 So far as Allied Colloids is concerned a great deal .
6 The immediate prospects are not promising for the child , at least in so far as primary schools are concerned .
7 In so far as material conditions were more unpleasant , so human beings were more unpleasant .
8 We should proceed beyond the immediate results of experience only so far as legitimate inductions will take us .
9 So far as new teachers are concerned , the implications of the new market ethos created by open enrolment and LMS are considerable .
10 By themselves the facts are neutral but in so far as moral views about the proper role of the media are based upon presumptions about facts , our empirical findings are bound to have moral implications .
11 On the other hand , in so far as general provisions such as Articles 100 and 235 may be used in this area , national competence would appear only to be excluded to the extent that the Community has enacted legislation .
12 So far as ordinary citizens and non-governmental bodies are concerned , the background principle of English law is that a person or body may do anything which the law does not prohibit .
13 So far as actual repairs to defective books are concerned , I hope I have said enough in earlier pages to discourage collectors from attempting them , unless they submit themselves to attending one of the excellent courses arranged in some centres of education .
14 So far as other sectors are concerned , there are no comparable data .
15 As yet , so far as religious houses were concerned , it was the alienation of the gift , not the failure to fulfil the condition , that prompted recovery by the donor .
16 In so far as modern historians have tried to explain it , it is simply as a continuation of the war of 1173 This however , it was not .
17 So far as modern alloys are concerned , their names ( eg ‘ copper-nickel ’ , aluminium-copper ’ etc ) often indicate the main ingredients .
18 In so far as geographical definitions can be made , we have defined Turkey as a country which could be a member of the Community and for our purposes Turkey is regarded as a European country .
19 In education operational time scales tend to be longer than commercial ones , certainly so far as joint projects are concerned .
20 So far as English lawyers have theorized about the nature of corporate personality at all , they at one time for the most part accepted the doctrine of the Canon Law , that such personality is a mere fiction of the law with no basis in fact .
21 But so far as natural substances go we are all gazing countrymen .
22 So far as wasted costs orders were concerned , cover was already provided by the BMIF for the benefit of those who had been made subject to such orders ; but that cover did not extend to related costs .
23 So far as ethical standards are concerned , the history of armed conquest , yasak extortion , and unscrupulous exploitation by the Russians , speaks for itself , while the conversion of the natives to Orthodox Christianity was mainly a superficial phenomenon induced by threats or material bribes .
24 International custom , which includes the actual practice of states and unilateral declarations made by states , is a source of prime importance , and is by no means barren so far as nuclear questions are concerned .
25 Since the Second World War many laws of war treaties have had important implications so far as nuclear weapons are concerned .
26 But the effect left in the mind by this UK and USA reservation is unfortunate : it suggests , rightly or wrongly , that these nuclear powers are prepared to support the most elaborate codification limiting the use of conventional force , but at the same time want to keep their hands completely free so far as nuclear weapons use is concerned .
27 This may help to explain , even if it does not wholly excuse , the extraordinary silence of the laws of war so far as nuclear weapons are concerned .
28 Fourth , with the likely acquisition of nuclear weapons by at least some additional states in the next few decades , the need for some clear rules of the road so far as nuclear weapons are concerned may actually increase .
29 The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required .
30 But there is some justification for the argument that , so far as in-classroom sanctions such as detention , confiscation and withdrawal of privileges are concerned , some consolidation of the law in a statutory form would be desirable .
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