Example sentences of "only [adv] [adv] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | Academics already in post retain their tenure only so long as they do not move to another university or accept promotion within their present university . |
| 4 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 5 | ‘ Only as far as they know she had n't seen a doctor . ’ |