Example sentences of "[verb] only [prep] so " in BNC.
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1 | She found Clelia 's company extraordinarily entertaining , and bracing only in so far as she liked to be braced : she could hardly follow a word , for instance , of the art references in her conversation , but Clelia managed somehow to combine a great air of erudition and abstruseness with a marked facility for making explanations , so that ignorance was no bar to amusement . |
2 | Fourthly , the 1966 White Paper made it plain that at that time it was the government 's intention that the polytechnics should remain primarily teaching institutions ; as the DES notes of guidance subsequently indicated , research would be justified only in so far as it was of educational value to the teaching staff and of benefit to industry and business . |
3 | Specifically , the history of English since about 1550 is often presented as what Lass ( 1976 : xi ) has called a ‘ single-minded march ’ towards RP and modern standard English , with divergent developments either excluded or admitted only in so far as they throw light on ‘ standard ’ English . |
4 | Treaty should be considered only in so far as there are situations other than those covered by one or other of the specific provisions at issue here . |
5 | New inventions are applied only in so far as they fit existing missions and strategies determined in previous wars . |
6 | Thus , liability for death or personal injury arising from such a breach of contract can not be excluded or restricted at all ; liability for other loss or injury arising from such a breach can be excluded only in so far as the exclusion clause satisfies the requirement of reasonableness , Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , section 2 ( see paragraph 10–24 above ) . |
7 | The primal father of the horde is masterful , self-confident , independent and absolutely narcissistic ; other people are loved only in so far as they serve his needs . |
8 | The LIFESPAN Process account is required only in so far as a suitable UIC must be available for running your LIFESPAN Processes . |
9 | The LIFESPAN Manager account is required only in so far as a VMS account with the privileges CMKRNL , SYSPRV , SYSNAM , DETACH , LOG_IO and WORLD must be available to start and stop LIFESPAN Processes and to undertake the administrative duties detailed in Section 3 of this guide . |