Example sentences of "[verb] only so [adv] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 2 | Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him . |
| 3 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 4 | But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent . |
| 5 | Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas , and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences . |