Example sentences of "[verb] only so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the new Latin America , it seems , the commitment to free trade goes only so far . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The air supply is restricted so the combustion zone can spread only so far . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas , and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences . |
| 6 | But as it was I travelled only so far down the ramp and stuck there with my head and shoulders protruding into the street . |
| 7 | 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 . |