Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] in so " in BNC.

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1 Knowledge , teaching and learning are only justified in so far as they contribute to that much more ambitious end .
2 This ‘ immediacy ’ of meaning in oral society he relates to the society 's functional needs , citing Malinowski 's claim that ‘ in the Trobriands the outer world was only named in so far as it yielded useful things ’ ( ibid . ) .
3 Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) .
4 Columbine is rarely seen in so tragic a role .
5 The displays of china and silver-framed photographs and the arrangements of feathers and dried flowers would have made the atmosphere claustrophobic if the immense windows had not let in so much light .
6 But Rohan had not put in so much as a token appearance .
7 I objected in Committee and in the House tonight to his implication — it was not stated in so many words — that the £780 million would be paid locally by the other people in the area picking up the bill for the single-person households .
8 Technically it does not : the right is still upheld in so far as the jury are told that no inferences can be drawn from silence in the face of allegations .
9 For this purpose the memory of the arrière-ban was preserved ; but in practice the imperial armies were not usually recruited in so haphazard a fashion .
10 Reform is so urgently needed in so many matters of ethics .
11 But this introspective isolation , now compounded in so many cases by the fact that universities are the only institutions able to support a composer 's existence , perpetuates the sense that the only right path for a serious composer is the romantic path of high seriousness and absolute individual integrity .
12 Hundreds of thousands of them simply abandoned in so called orphanages .
13 Perhaps because the average standard of anglers has improved they are not quite held in so much esteem and yet that really is not quite fair , given that it is now harder to achieve a level of consistency with open match results .
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