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1473 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 25/2 To Restore again þe samyn [cattle] in sa fer as is vnrestorit.

1483 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. Introd. p. cxv Insafer as it salbe fundin awand to him.

1500 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 80 Autorist be ws insafer as we haue autorite and powere.

1556 J. Knox Copie of Let. sig. G.vi^v For in so farre as it offreth or promitteth remission of synnes: it imputeth imperfection, vppon Christe and hys sacrifice.

1661 Marquis of Argyll Def. against Grand Indytement High Treason 48 Every member of Parliament shall..express themselves upon..every thing which is propounded in so far as they think in their conscience may conduce to the glory of God.

1683 J. Dalrymple Decisions Lords of Council & Session I. 556 The Lords Repelled the Defense upon the Act of Pacification, which they found was only unrescinded, in so far as it is contained in the late Act of Indemnity.

1707 J. Spotiswood Introd. Knowl. Stile Writs Scotl. 119 Of the Instrument of Seasine following thereupon, in so far only as can be extended to the Sums hereby Discharged.

1896 Act 59 & 60 Vict. c. 39 §1 (3) In so far as they are temporary in their duration.

1931 H. S. Williams Bk. of Marvels 37 Insofar as they are known to the layman they are usually called ‘rusts’, and are scarcely recognized as living organisms.

1959 B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Pathol. viii. 267 Differentiation between the one and the other will be called for only insofar as it affects the kind of treatment that is likely to be helpful.

2010 P. Daniels Class Actor xxx. 204 In so far as I had any heroes in acting, it was people like Richard Burton or Robert Mitchum—Oliver Reed, even.

1554 J. Knox Godly Let. sig. D.ii Idolatours can haue no leage nor couenaunt with God: in so far as their hartes be alienated from hym.

1672 Justiciary Rec. (S.H.S.) 117 The complainer was no Magistrate in swa far as he had not taken the Declaration.

1744 A. Hamilton Itinerarium 24 June in C. Bridenbaugh Gentleman's Progress (1992) 58 They [sc. Moravians] call their religion the true religion, or the religion of the Lamb, which I believe is true in so far as some of them may be wolves in sheep's clothing.

a1860 T. Parker in J. Weiss Life & Corr. (1864) I. 169 In so far as God is spirit, it belongs to His nature to reveal and objectivate Himself.

1921 A. H. Hannay & R. G. Collingwood tr. G. de Ruggiero Mod. Philos. iii. ii. 274 Bradley..fails to see that the true absolute is..appearance itself, in so far as it is the absolute process of appearing, the phenomenalization of the absolute.

1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 134/1 Most people have relative pitch, in so far as they are able to say, when given a certain reference tone, that a second sound is higher or lower in pitch.

2017 Western Mail (Nexis) 18 May (News section) 26 I am perhaps different from most politicians insofar as I do not oppose the tolls on the current two Severn crossings.

1780 Mirror No. 96 In so far as my improvement was concerned, they spared no expence.

a1832 J. Bentham Constit. Code xxv, in Wks. (1842) XVIII. 623/1 The Headman takes upon himself that same trust: in so doing, he gives, in so far as on him depends, execution and effect to the correspondent provisions in the Stranger's Subcode.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. i. 9 This question has never, in so far as I am aware, been regularly discussed.

1885 Cent. Mag. May 46/2 The song of the Quaker bard is almost virginal, in so far as what we term the master-passion is concerned.

1919 Mod. Hosp. Feb. 130/1 The program is to be worked out and is being worked out, in so far as is possible, as a he-man and a she-woman program.

1939 Atlanta Daily World 1 Oct. 4/4 How quickly those words ‘Jewish’ and ‘Jew’ could be translated into ‘Negro’, insofar as some of the hate groups now doing business here are concerned.

1965 Accounting Rev. 40 65/1 The method of inquiry..must be impersonal and, insofar as possible, independent of the particular value judgments..of the investigator.

2002 K. Matinuddin Nuclearization S. Asia x. 209 Both India and Pakistan are at par with each other insofar as their status of being nuclear weapon states is concerned.