Example sentences of "so far as he [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing . |
| 2 | The spoken word is his chosen form of communication , and in so far as he learns anything , he absorbs knowledge through conversation . |
| 3 | The former , in so far as he considers explanations at all , inclines to those that stress the purely mechanical relations between events . |
| 4 | ‘ The Emperor is not your enemy , Deems , except in so far as he stands in the way of your advancement . |
| 5 | The final outcome of the stages of development outlined by Piaget is also utopian , in so far as he links formal operational thought with the structure of the ‘ real ’ world . |
| 6 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
| 7 | I have suggested earlier that part of Beccaria 's reputation may have resulted from his glossing over the more unsavoury implications of his views , and the fact that his full programme has never really been put into practice ; but this is not to deny that , in so far as he has been an influence , he has been a relatively benign one . |
| 8 | ‘ In the execution of a letter of request the person concerned may refuse to give evidence in so far as he has a privilege or duty to refuse to give the evidence — ( a ) under the law of the state of execution ; or ( b ) under the law of the state of origin … |
| 9 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
| 10 | In so far as he means the random use of techniques removed from all contact with appraisal , then I think that he is right . |
| 11 | Throughout the whole of life , Man is happy or unhappy in so far as he discovers the right admixture for his life of these quite distinct manners of using energy . |
| 12 | But I think he has told us truly , so far as he knows truth . |