Example sentences of "[adv] long as one " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the world of an inside ethnography as Favret-Saada identifies , ‘ one is never able to choose between subjectivism and the objective method as it was taught ’ ( ibid. 23 ) , so long as one wishes to find out answers which , in traditional ethnography , are often missing from the finite corpus of empirical observation . |
| 2 | Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact . |
| 3 | However , so long as one is aware of their limitations , classifications are useful , since they provide a series of labels to attach to different eruptions , aiding recognition and simplifying the job of describing them . |
| 4 | One would also tend to accept verbatim reports of judicial court proceedings , evidence given before special committees of enquiry , so long as one can genuinely believe that the people keeping the record were quite impartial and skilled in their work and that all they took down has been printed without editing . |
| 5 | Now so long as one is careful in the selection of lexical realization , then it is possible to distinguish the different meanings supposedly signalled by the verb form . |
| 6 | This philosophy produced strong and excellent aeroplanes so long as one was quite sure which members were in tension and which in compression , for , though a strut could at a pinch take tension , a wire could not take compression . |
| 7 | It might be thought that so long as one asserted the local sign theory only in principle ( that is , did not specify the precise nature of the ‘ feeling ’ or ‘ colouring ’ which is supposed to subserve localisation ) , one could rely on the testimony of introspection for one 's theory to be confirmed . |
| 8 | This vagueness will not matter so long as one is clear about the level at which the formula of ‘ ought implies can ’ is being applied : thus the latter , and weaker , kind of ‘ can not ’ would be enough to provide a strong argument against the behaviour being made into a norm for a human society , but it would not be enough if the question concerned the adoption of a personal ideal in an individual case . |
| 9 | There is nothing superficial in comparing works of different times and cultures , so long as one is not making glib suggestions of direct linkages between them . |
| 10 | ( So long as one is n't a ‘ creep ’ of course ) . |
| 11 | So long as one 's own eyes are fixed on the past , it is difficult to make the point that the past should not be prescriptive for the future . |
| 12 | Apart from the implications of this for prayers and strategy , it was a comforting thought — so long as one was winning . |
| 13 | So long as one is not a dedicated socialist , politics is not initially important ; in any case , the dedicated socialist is unlikely to want to join . |
| 14 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 15 | Although it may be important for sentencing purposes to know whether the conduct was deliberate or otherwise , it does not affect liability , so long as one or other of the conditions is satisfied . |
| 16 | Yet Anglicans had always allowed for passive resistance , in the sense of non-compliance with the ungodly commands of the sovereign , so long as one peacefully accepted the punishments for one 's disobedience . |
| 17 | There has been no love lost between Scots and English at big sporting occasions for as long as one can remember , but it seems that England 's rugby aficionados find it hard to forgive Scotland for that Grand Slam defeat in 1990 . |