Example sentences of "only so [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas , and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences . |
| 3 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 4 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem . |
| 10 | Furthermore , China has been compelled to accept western technology by that universal and all-powerful human trait , which can be summed up thus : — ‘ Human beings are satisfied with the status quo only so long as nothing more attractive is experienced ’ . |
| 11 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 12 | Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him . |
| 13 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 16 | Learning is a ‘ free commodity ’ , but only so long as we are thinking of knowledge as a source of intrinsic , expressive rewards . |
| 17 | Most of them are interested in education , if at all , only so long as their own children are at school . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A company can protect information of this kind only so long as it is confidential to the business and not in the public domain . |