Example sentences of "so long as it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So long as it stays like that . ’
2 It explained everything , though she fought it , fought the nightmare truth of her growing feelings for him , her respect , her admiration , her jealousy , her pain , her longing to make him feel something for her , anything , so long as it came from the heart and not the body …
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 The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change .
8 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 " .
9 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 . ’
10 ‘ Heightened expectation on the part of supporters is understandable and tolerable so long as it comes with a sense of realism .
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