Example sentences of "only [prep] [adv] far [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 2 | But this was a drama , the story of the circumstances of Van Gogh 's life ; ‘ No attempt has been made , ’ wrote Meier-Graefe , ‘ to make a critical analysis of the pictures , which enter upon the scene only in so far as they concern the drama directly or indirectly . ’ |
| 3 | They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world . |
| 4 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |
| 5 | But this does not mean that it is fitted only to be used on matters at the extreme end of the spectrum of abstraction — that it can , for instance , discuss people only in so far as they are rational beings , or sets of behaviour-patterns , or immortal souls . |
| 6 | The primal father of the horde is masterful , self-confident , independent and absolutely narcissistic ; other people are loved only in so far as they serve his needs . |
| 7 | Definitions are useful only in so far as they encapsulate a particular conception or theory of the phenomena one wishes to study . |
| 8 | Specifically , the history of English since about 1550 is often presented as what Lass ( 1976 : xi ) has called a ‘ single-minded march ’ towards RP and modern standard English , with divergent developments either excluded or admitted only in so far as they throw light on ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Tied cottagers received protection under the Rent Act 1957 only in so far as they were ‘ tenants ’ who were entitled to four weeks ' notice to quit and could not be evicted without prior warning . |
| 11 | New inventions are applied only in so far as they fit existing missions and strategies determined in previous wars . |
| 12 | Sufferers get better in the Fellowships ; treatment centres and counsellors are of value only in so far as they help sufferers towards an understanding of the principles and processes of the Fellowships . |
| 13 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 14 | But in his analyses of kinship relations or of cooking , for example , Lévi-Strauss 's approach is based entirely on the assumption that they are systems which are structured like a language ; that is to say , that their individual elements have meaning only in so far as they are part of an overall system . |
| 15 | They will therefore be interested in the firm only in so far as its activities and financial structure influence the risk class of the bonds . |
| 16 | Consequently , even if a non-member country may possibly be entitled not to recognise a flag granted in a manner contrary to the Geneva Convention , it can do so only in so far as there is no ‘ genuine link , ’ regardless as to its nature , between the vessel and the state whose flag it is flying . |
| 17 | Treaty should be considered only in so far as there are situations other than those covered by one or other of the specific provisions at issue here . |
| 18 | ‘ I ‘ disapprove ’ only in so far as your adventurous inclinations affect my own family , I assure you . |
| 19 | She found Clelia 's company extraordinarily entertaining , and bracing only in so far as she liked to be braced : she could hardly follow a word , for instance , of the art references in her conversation , but Clelia managed somehow to combine a great air of erudition and abstruseness with a marked facility for making explanations , so that ignorance was no bar to amusement . |
| 20 | He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste . |
| 21 | This unit can become bound to others only by his own free choice , and his choice is rational only in so far as he can safely expect it to serve his own interests . |
| 22 | The Revolution had impinged on their consciousness only in so far as it provided them with land , or took away foodstuffs during War Communism . |
| 23 | The discussion is more neutral only in so far as it is assumed that the curriculum ( such a global phenomenon ) is no-one 's responsibility in particular , and clearly this is so in an individual sense — but it is however the responsibility of the profession to take a leading role in this area and at the moment it is not fulfilling this role . |
| 24 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 25 | Law and custom thus defend the family as the prime agent of socialisation only in so far as it fulfils the task currently prescribed . |
| 26 | Next , it will support the claim that corporate power is justifiable only in so far as it promotes the public interest , and accordingly that society is entitled to demand that company policies serve that interest . |
| 27 | The tolerance of adults is important only in so far as it allows them to feed high on the shore , exposed to rain . |
| 28 | Fourthly , the 1966 White Paper made it plain that at that time it was the government 's intention that the polytechnics should remain primarily teaching institutions ; as the DES notes of guidance subsequently indicated , research would be justified only in so far as it was of educational value to the teaching staff and of benefit to industry and business . |
| 29 | I shall go back into the classical age of Greece only in so far as it is necessary in order to understand the later times . |
| 30 | Subdivision is carried out only in so far as it is profitable ; too much splitting would cause more problems than it would avoid . |