Example sentences of "so long as [pers pn] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family , so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from , then usually the Parish Registers and things like the Census Returns over the last hundred years are usually able to help them .
2 Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got some , something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from .
3 Nor does the fact that , so long as they consider that the affairs of the business they own are being conducted well enough on their behalf , owners do not choose to exercise their ultimate authority , provide any reason for supposing either that companies would be better managed if trade unions were implicated in management or that owners would acquiesce in the assumption , in whole or in part , of their rights by any other party — let alone by one whose essential interests are often opposed to their own .
4 So long as they understand that there 's this also the erm you know er said to me , Oh it 's just English sort of said differently .
5 ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’
6 So long as they understand or we have communicated to them , why we want them to do that .
7 For the social sciences have more to gain from each other than they have to lose , and the precise origin and pedigree of new findings and theories is of little importance so long as they extend and expand our understanding of the world .
8 Nor do they even care very much about their state of liquidity , so long as they think that they can force the banks to bail them out .
9 I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes .
10 In analysing this argument , Hirschi ( 1973 , p. 171 ) concludes that ‘ Sociology will suffer … so long as we believe that our assumptions guarantee truth , while their assumptions guarantee error , whatever the facts may be ’ .
11 The class can take on the role of any group of people unified by a common concern or problem , so long as we ensure that every child has an active role to play .
12 So long as we think that good must be identical with some one natural property we can not but suppose that all good things have some such property in common .
13 Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run .
14 He will never be content , so long as he knows that he is in our debt . ’
15 So long as he remembers that , when mounting a picket in his opponents ' penalty area , he is only allowed a maximum of six operatives on the line , he should be able to enjoy free and frank access to the other side 's position .
16 I explained that the meeting could elect anything it wished so long as it understood that the ‘ original organisers , … would make up their own minds what status , if any , to accord those elected .
17 If an Act of Parliament has been obtained improperly , it is for the legislature to correct it by repealing it : but , so long as it exists as law , the courts are bound to obey it .
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