Example sentences of "so long as [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be impossible to persuade anyone to act as trustee unless the discretion entrusted to him were very liberally conferred , and it is now possible for a trustee to delegate to an agent , not merely pieces of business requiring especial skill , but the whole business of the trust , and escape liability so long as he acts in good faith . |
| 2 | ‘ So long as it stays like that . ’ |
| 3 | So long as it remains within 8″ of its regiment during the game , the detachment may take any leadership-based tests on the leadership value of the parent regiment , including any bonuses that apply for standards , magic items , and so forth . |
| 4 | So long as it remains in this room , he wrote , it is not finished . |
| 5 | Hence section 252 provides that a private company ( whether or not small or medium-sized ) may elect ( by elective resolution in accordance with section 379A ) to dispense with the laying of accounts , and this dispensation applies in respect of the financial year in which the election is made and to subsequent financial years so long as it remains in force . |
| 6 | And whether they 're coming or not , that city is going to hold out to starvation point and beyond , so long as it believes in a rescue . ’ |
| 7 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 8 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Heightened expectation on the part of supporters is understandable and tolerable so long as it comes with a sense of realism . |