Example sentences of "[adj] only in [adv] far as " in BNC.

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1 Next , it will support the claim that corporate power is justifiable only in so far as it promotes the public interest , and accordingly that society is entitled to demand that company policies serve that interest .
2 Definitions are useful only in so far as they encapsulate a particular conception or theory of the phenomena one wishes to study .
3 Rawls ' theory deviates from comprehensive neutrality in requiring equal ability to pursue ideals of the good only in so far as that ability depends on the principle of equal liberty .
4 The tolerance of adults is important only in so far as it allows them to feed high on the shore , exposed to rain .
5 But worse , at this point design can " no longer be aware of itself for to separate the social formative and communicative-representational functions is to reduce itself , to make its activity into a variation of technical activity , unimportant in itself , important only in so far as a problem can be solved through it , a product constructed .
6 The discussion is more neutral only in so far as it is assumed that the curriculum ( such a global phenomenon ) is no-one 's responsibility in particular , and clearly this is so in an individual sense — but it is however the responsibility of the profession to take a leading role in this area and at the moment it is not fulfilling this role .
7 This unit can become bound to others only by his own free choice , and his choice is rational only in so far as he can safely expect it to serve his own interests .
8 Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses .
9 We might say that the despair of existentialism is simply the logic of atheism , but this is true only in so far as atheism itself is the logic of ungrateful Protestantism .
10 I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble .
11 It was simply a conversation in which the group was significant only in so far as any communication requires two or more people to support it .
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