Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] so far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Law and custom thus defend the family as the prime agent of socialisation only in so far as it fulfils the task currently prescribed . |
| 2 | Hypocrisy entered this pattern of behaviour only in so far as the bourgeois women were supposed to remain entirely outside the game , and therefore in ignorance of what the men , and women other than themselves , were up to . |
| 3 | I shall go back into the classical age of Greece only in so far as it is necessary in order to understand the later times . |
| 4 | Sufferers get better in the Fellowships ; treatment centres and counsellors are of value only in so far as they help sufferers towards an understanding of the principles and processes of the Fellowships . |
| 5 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |