Example sentences of "[noun] only [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should proceed beyond the immediate results of experience only so far as legitimate inductions will take us . |
| 2 | Nothing in soft conventionalism guarantees , or even promotes , the ideal of protected expectations , that past decisions will be relied on to justify collective force only so far as their authority and their terms are made uncontroversial by widely accepted conventions . |
| 3 | Furthermore s. 2(4) European Communities Act 1972 provides that any Act of the Westminster Parliament shall be presumed not to conflict with EEC legislation , and will be given effect only so far as it does not conflict with the EEC legislation . |
| 4 | In 1905 the Lytham Company , whose blue cars operated into Blackpool only as far as South Shore Station , threatened legal action unless Blackpool Corporation allowed them to operate further into town . |
| 5 | The French government acceded to her request that she be buried at Malmaison , but her son was permitted to accompany the funeral only as far as the frontier between France and Switzerland . |
| 6 | The best advice is : aim at concentrating all your intelligence on the specific question , and bring in your knowledge only so far as it is relevant . |
| 7 | Resolution carried Harry only so far . |
| 8 | For example , it can occur in a wake only sufficiently far downstream for the mean velocity deficit at the wake centre to be small compared with the total mean velocity . |
| 9 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |