Example sentences of "[verb] only [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 2 | We need to go only as far as eqn ( 2.21 ) . |
| 3 | Even in the new Latin America , it seems , the commitment to free trade goes only so far . |
| 4 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 5 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 6 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 7 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 8 | Perhaps the notice could be altered to indicate that the path leads only as far as the river . |
| 9 | It is also likely that the ads for the more expensive and unusual products will be of greater general interest than those for the cheap day-to-day items : it is quite tempting to study in detail an ad for an expensive car , or browse through the ‘ houses for sale ’ columns , even if you aspire only as far as a second-hand Escort and have no intention of moving house within the next 10 years . |
| 10 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |
| 11 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 12 | There is one poem in which the I dominates to a remarkable extent and which , since it has been read literally , might seem an exception to my argument , namely 62 : If one reads only as far as this point , or reads the rest of the poem inattentively , one might indeed take this as an attack by the poet on his own narcissism . |
| 13 | The air supply is restricted so the combustion zone can spread only so far . |
| 14 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 15 | On the next occasion they may get only as far as point C and so on until they are virtually unable to leave home . |
| 16 | I like you very much , Shelley , but I will come only as far as you ask me to . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The direct influence of the LLP extended only as far as the metropolitan boundary at Bethnal Green ; the West Ham Labour Party was autonomous . |
| 19 | From the kick-off , Bordon forced a corner which was cleared only as far as Duffin who volleyed in from 15 yards . |
| 20 | Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas , and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences . |
| 21 | Now , seeing as my own computer literacy extends only as far as Super Mario Bros , I 'm left feeling a little bewildered by it all . |
| 22 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 23 | But as it was I travelled only so far down the ramp and stuck there with my head and shoulders protruding into the street . |
| 24 | At least that way there is no way you can be held back by the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ — the phrase coined in the United States to describe the invisible barriers that allow women to rise only so far in an organisation . |