Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] long as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 2 | ‘ The position does not matter to me so long as I am playing . |
| 3 | Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ . |
| 4 | I was in no mood to stop them so long as I got my mail . |
| 5 | While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’ |
| 6 | We have bread and bacon and butter that 's good , With oatmeal and salt that is wholesome for food ; We have soap and candles whereby to give light That you may work by them so long as you have light . |
| 7 | They really do n't care where they send them so long as call up up Edingley Hill what |
| 8 | The macro-economic case for the widespread and general adoption of the industrial co-operative form is that it is just such another structure ; that the structural change lies in making labour the employer of capital rather than , as at present capital the employer of labour ; that such a change would fuse the interests of ownership and labour , interests which so long as they remain separate must also remain ultimately opposed ; and that , because relations among co-operatives and between producers and providers on the one hand , and consumers and users on the other would be determined by the operation of a free competitive market , the workers in each co-operative will be exposed to its imperative discipline . |
| 9 | ‘ He would n't kill you so long as I 'm alive . |
| 10 | The aim of these and other schemes is to provide flexible cost-effective services responsive to the needs of the frail elderly and designed to keep them as long as possible in their own homes rather than an institutional environment . |
| 11 | There is no difficulty in this whatsoever so long as you keep the silver piece level with the needles . |
| 12 | Mr Dalrymple 's son Joe said the gunmen had been prepared to shoot anybody so long as they were Catholics . |
| 13 | She was great with him so long as he kept her occupied . |
| 14 | Joyce met his German contact in the Ministry of Propaganda , Christian Bauer , who was optimistic over finding employment for him so long as there was no war . |
| 15 | Anyone can do it so long as they are not criminals or kids , and promise to play by the rules . |
| 16 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
| 17 | They were bound by it so long as it was not in conflict with their statutory duty . |
| 18 | Soviet leaders strove to convince the non-aligned states that Moscow had no objection to the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact or the imposition of restraints on it so long as these measures applied equally to NATO . |
| 19 | ‘ We are very comfortable at Government House and Lady Franklin will not hear of our going from it so long as we remain in town . |
| 20 | The NUWM , however , was under Communist control , and it was difficult to cooperate with it so long as the ILP was regarded as " Social Fascist " . |
| 21 | True , the disease would sooner or later reach Norway after travelling up through Finland , but the Norwegian government had decided to stall it as long as possible . |
| 22 | I want to give it a bit of a rest now and I 'm trying to leave it as long as possible before I have it permed again . |
| 23 | Back with his own cast , he was determined to keep them at it as long as possible , fulfilling his own need for manic activity . |
| 24 | Now erm well let , let me start again people think okay , if the Conservatives win , win control alright it might be another fifty pence on night class at the er at the , the college you know , something something like that erm it might mean erm a few redundancies in the town hall and a greater level of privatization but s but people tend to think well so what so long as the bins are getting emptied . |
| 25 | Whatever so long as it does n't matter , do n't worry about it , why you upset ? |
| 26 | On the other hand , we can not say that people are making up their minds for themselves so long as they are largely unaware of the influences that are playing upon them , and so long as those influences are not essentially diverse and competitive , but generally combine to push their thinking , their attitudes and feelings in a single direction . |
| 27 | The chatterbox will keep talking about anything so long as there is n't a pause where there could be an opportunity to engage brain before mouth . |
| 28 | I 've discovered that one can paint anything so long as it 's BIG ! |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't mind anything so long as we 're safe , ’ she said . |
| 30 | But he said , thoughtfully , that he believed the Robemaker would weave anything so long as he was paid sufficiently highly . |