Example sentences of "only so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 2 | ‘ England is an island without sea , or else an island that used to be sea-bound , only so long ago that the sea 's now evaporated . ’ |
| 3 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 4 | She wanted somehow to have her mother for herself , but only so that she could reject her herself . |
| 5 | They 're on a worldwide scale rather than a national scale , but you have to recognise that there are only so many hours in the day in which you can be efficient . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's only so much any man can do on his own . ’ |
| 7 | In this more temperate climate , we can see that rock 's estate is a grand one , and it 's tempting to tramp its grounds — necessary , perhaps , if only so as to have somewhere to ‘ go ’ . |
| 8 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 9 | Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas , and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences . |
| 10 | There were very old dogs , taken gently to the nearest suitable spot then straight home ; dogs who bounded ahead , to wait for a moment , look round , eyes shining , mouth dripping , before dashing off once more ; dogs on the lead , who would drag their owner slowly from one thoughtfully sniffed-over site to the next ; and there were some , like Wilson , who trotted to heel — alert , brisk , responsible — although Wilson was not a dog , only so much like an Aberdeen terrier in bearing and gait that his picture sometimes became confused in my mind . |
| 11 | The pragmatist might suggest that precision is fine only so long as everyone understands the term : in fact , Pulex irritans is less obviously a flea , than ‘ flea ’ . |
| 12 | However , the aura of the military genius paving the way for lasting prosperity through final victory could almost by definition last only so long as one glorious triumph after another — and all without significant material sacrifice and loss — was attained . |
| 13 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 14 | Indeed , his work rate is so high that his players are inspired to perform if only so that the old so-and-so does not get the better of them . |
| 15 | Indeed , his work rate is so high that his players are inspired to perform if only so that the old so-and-so does not get the better of them . |
| 16 | Claiming there is only so much hedonism you can take , Koch started Oxbow Industries to make a second fortune on his own account . |
| 17 | Leslie had clearly avoided this mishap , for the face that presented itself at the church to the sound of other bells was unblemished — only so very much older than that of the newly-commissioned boy of the Stirling studio photograph , taken but three years before . |
| 18 | The environmental conditions with which the system is in equilibrium may shift , and only so long as the equilibrium can be set at new and workable positions can the species survive . |
| 19 | Although the heroine of George Eliot 's Felix Holt renounces her inheritance , it is only so that she can marry the man she loves . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There 's only so much you can cling to — your credibility , your belief in small cottage industries — whatever . |
| 22 | There are only so many things you can sell to someone who merely requires to be kept warm and dry as they walk up a hill . |
| 23 | Only so can we begin to examine the contradictory presuppositions of educational theory , conceptual confusions which have led inevitably to fumbling and uncertain practice . |
| 24 | Most of them are interested in education , if at all , only so long as their own children are at school . |
| 25 | Only so will children be sure to get a proper grounding in science , mathematics and music ; only so will children with special educational needs be identified and given the help they must have . |
| 26 | Only so will children be sure to get a proper grounding in science , mathematics and music ; only so will children with special educational needs be identified and given the help they must have . |
| 27 | Only so can he choose whether to stay in it or leave , only so can he ever see it clearly enough to try to change it . |
| 28 | Only so can he choose whether to stay in it or leave , only so can he ever see it clearly enough to try to change it . |
| 29 | Only so , furthermore , will he have the ability to compete with his contemporaries in what is a world-wide competition . |
| 30 | Nothing would satisfy him , he implies , but a return to the old ways , for only so can academic standards be maintained . |