Example sentences of "far as [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The test has shown positive , but as far as we know at the moment it could have come from many different sources . ’ |
| 2 | Our efforts to meet the company have so far been unsuccessful , but as far as we understand from the AEU ( which has a single union agreement with Montupet ) , there are no special mechanisms to target recruitment and training on the unemployed and it is worth bearing in mind that the code of practice of the new Fair Employment Act puts the idea of the merit principle above that of equality of outcome or the achievement of social justice . |
| 3 | In so far as we deal with cyclical fluctuations here , they will be those which were characteristic of an unregulated capitalist economy typical of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Knowledge , teaching and learning are only justified in so far as they contribute to that much more ambitious end . |
| 5 | For example , in 1967 the Monopolies Commission investigated the general effect on the public interest of certain restrictive practices so far as they prevailed in relation to the supply of professional services . |
| 6 | Since s. 2(2) OLA 1957 requires the occupier to take such care as is reasonable to see that visitors will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which they are invited or permitted by the occupier to be there , lawful visitors will be owed a duty only in so far as they remain within the scope of their invitation or permission to be on the premises . |
| 7 | Treaty in so far as they applied to all owners , charterers , managers and operators of British fishing vessels and to 75 per cent . |
| 8 | As has already been mentioned , insider traders also face the possibility of conviction under the US mail and wire fraud statutes in so far as they participate in a ‘ scheme … to defraud ’ ( ie breach of s.10b and Rule 10b-5 ) where use has been made of the postal system or telephonic communication . |
| 9 | Statutory advisers from the conservation bodies all gave us a list of the areas that they wanted included and , for the most part , we followed those lists in so far as they agreed with one another . |
| 10 | In as far as they existed at all , relations with these countries were conducted as between tributaries of the Chinese empire . |
| 11 | It was difficult for them to appreciate that [ h ] -loss could ever have been anything else but a stigmatized form : in so far as they knew of evidence for it in earlier centuries , they tended to dismiss it , seemingly in the belief that ‘ vulgar ’ and ‘ careless ’ usage is not implicated in linguistic change . |
| 12 | The debate over the respective roles of nuclear and conventional arms was inevitably bound up with questions of authority and influence within Nato , especially in so far as they related to the possible use of nuclear weapons , and to their proliferation within the alliance . |
| 13 | Finally , I return to my earlier comments about autonomy , in so far as they apply to students . |
| 14 | The Government have always abided by , and agreed with , the additionality rules as far as they apply to Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 16 | The development of such trading centres is only relevant here in as far as they point to the direction in which economy was evolving in the sixth and seventh centuries . |
| 17 | To them enlightened rule , in so far as they thought in terms of it at all , meant simply effective solutions to immediate problems . |
| 18 | Such women may have been rather running businesses than producing goods in so far as they relied on journeymen . |
| 19 | Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) . |
| 20 | Such covenants , so far as they relate to the premises leased , are binding on and enforceable by assignees both of lessor and lessee . |
| 21 | Are they solely to do with consciousness ( in so far as they relate to ontological stakes or emotional investments in racist ideology which may be pre- or even un-conscious ) ? |
| 22 | The material facts of that case , in so far as they relate to the present appeal , were that on the application of the Crown Prosecution Service , McCullough J. made a restraint order pursuant to section 77 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 in respect of the assets held by the applicants , a husband and wife . |
| 23 | The due observance and fulfilment of the terms provisions conditions and endorsements of this Policy in so far as they relate to anything to be done or complied with by the Policyholder and the truth of the statements and answers in the said proposal shall be conditions precedent to any liability of the Corporation to make any payment under this Policy . |
| 24 | The due observance and fulfilment of the terms provisions conditions and endorsements of this Policy in so far as they relate to anything to be done or complied with by the Policyholder and the truth of the statements and answers in the said proposal shall be conditions precedent to any liability of the Corporation to make any payment under this Policy . |
| 25 | Any party to proceedings therefore has a general right to see social work records in so far as they relate to him but not otherwise ( see Chapter 3 , 5 ) . |
| 26 | This right extends to all social work records in so far as they relate to the child and any records compiled in connection with the making or proposed making of an application under the Children Act . |
| 27 | As a member of the National Trust for Scotland for nearly 58 years , and having from time to time been involved in its affairs , I want to add my personal support to Douglas Connell 's proposition ( Points of View , 15 March ) that the functions of the National Heritage Memorial Fund ( in so far as they relate to Scotland ) should in future be carried out by a new body established in Scotland . |
| 28 | Their outsides remained functional ; it was only their insides , in so far as they belonged to the bourgeois world like the newly devised Pullman sleeping-cars ( 1865 ) and the first-class steamer saloons and state-rooms , which had décor . |
| 29 | Past cases are only helpful in so far as they act as a guide and some of the main points arising from them are discussed below . |
| 30 | Particular religions are true in so far as they succeed in expressing the primordial form of religion which in turn is comprehended only in the depths of particular religions . |