Example sentences of "far [conj] a [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 Finance was not , in fact , particularly in question , as Mr Maugham had provided for his family with a thoroughness that bordered upon the reckless — in so far as a man may squander upon insurance , he had done so .
2 She found Ernest and Charlotte on their knees with the rest , with Enoch , as far as a three-year-old could , keeping an eye on the baby nearby .
3 But worse , at this point design can " no longer be aware of itself for to separate the social formative and communicative-representational functions is to reduce itself , to make its activity into a variation of technical activity , unimportant in itself , important only in so far as a problem can be solved through it , a product constructed .
4 In so far as a timetable can be thought of as functioning like a rule it can be thought of as an instrument of order .
5 But so far as an answer can be found , it must be sought in the influences to which he was exposed during his exile .
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