Example sentences of "[noun] only [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A company can protect information of this kind only so long as it is confidential to the business and not in the public domain . |
| 2 | We should proceed beyond the immediate results of experience only so far as legitimate inductions will take us . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A declaration of dominance , of the attitude that had accepted Darwin only so long as his ideas could be misrepresented in shuffling the animal kingdom into a league table with man several steps above its head , almost within touching distance of God . |
| 6 | Nevertheless mortality had begun to fall in most Western countries only slightly later than in Britain , almost irrespective of the degree to which they had industrialized their economies , and with a similar diminution of particular causes of death ( Preston 1975 , 1976 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is significant that judicial torture was abolished in the province of Holland only as late as 1798 , while in the generally more backward Austrian Netherlands the Emperor Joseph II had ended it , at least in principle , fourteen years earlier . |
| 12 | Might not the Ketterings specify girl children only as reasonably as ‘ no pets ’ or ‘ using the premises for business purposes forbidden ’ ? |
| 13 | The procedural advantages persisted even at Rome only so long as there were two procedural systems , which at the end of the third century ceased to be the case . |
| 14 | The British government gave him protection , but backed the principle of free speech only as vigorously as was diplomatically comfortable . |
| 15 | 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 . |