Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] long as " in BNC.
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31 | Akashi said that so long as the Khmers Rouges refused to disarm , a freeze was necessary to maintain the balance of power in the country . |
32 | He believed that so long as he remained in the Government the Press attacks would continue and that his supposedly malevolent influence would be blamed for every failure . |
33 | Articles 85 and 86 of Table A ( prescribed pursuant to the Companies Act 1985 ) provide that so long as a director has disclosed his interest to the company , he may be a party to or interested in any transaction , and shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the company for any benefit he receives from such a transaction . |
34 | No , I 'm sure that they that so long as they pass the audition they are always welcome . |
35 | After the birth , intercourse can begin again as soon as you feel ready and so long as you do n't feel any discomfort . |
36 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
37 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
38 | As she raised a hand to wipe them away she noticed how deeply the dirt had eaten into her fingernails , so that they were not , and so long as she worked never would be , pink and sweet and shell-like . |
39 | Beasant 's goalkeeping spared Chelsea another drubbing at Crystal Palace on Boxing Day and so long as their strikers remain on target they could get a decent result today . |
40 | There is no need for taxes , subsidies and public provision ; and so long as property rights already exist , there is no need for energetic policies aimed at shifting them around . |
41 | By contrast the larger class-D animals , living on grasslands where rainfall varies , are less selective and so long as they do not crop the grass too close many animals can cover the same foraging area in a short time . |
42 | Timbers affected by wet rot need only to be dried out , or cut out and replaced with sound timbers , and so long as the source of wetting is removed and air allowed to circulate , the rot will not recur . |
43 | Damp is acceptable so long as the cellar is not in use and so long as it does not rise above the ground floor dpc . |
44 | But the widow of a vassal was commonly at the disposal of the vassal 's lord : so long as her consent was obtained ( by whatever means ) and so long as she was not disparaged , she could be married to whom the lord chose . |
45 | She smiled , ‘ Do n't forget now , you 're my cousin from Neath come to help with the business , you 're big like my dad , could easily be his nephew and so long as you do n't open your mouth , it should be all right . ’ |
46 | The deepening recession in Germany makes it more and more certain that German companies will have to transfer manufacturing overseas , and so long as the former Comecon countries remain outside the European Community , Ireland will be one of the most cost-effective places to site new plants . |
47 | Usually these breaks are not perpendicular but at an angle , and so long as the end is carefully flame-polished , minor irregularities in the line of the break do not matter . |
48 | So long as there is a need for collective decision-making and for policies which give direction to a whole community or society , and so long as or whenever unanimity can not be achieved , it is hard to see what alternative there can be to the minority being compelled to go along with the decision of the majority . |
49 | And so long as all citizens stand a good chance of being among the majority on at least some of the major and significant issues , most if not all will be content to accept the majority principle . |
50 | 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 . |
51 | Clerical taxation by the king was allowable only when and so long as the realm was endangered , a condition which the clergy were to judge . |
52 | Raw villagers recruited into the unfamiliar discipline of industrial labour would continue to be unruly , and so long as the harsh conditions typical of early industrialization prevailed , the workers would no doubt prove highly strike-prone . |
53 | Anyone who gives him a flak jacket ( that is , consent ) may take it back , but the doctor only needs one and so long as he continues to have one he has the legal right to proceed . |
54 | ‘ Subject to this Part of this Act — ( a ) after the termination of a protected tenancy of a dwelling-house the person who , immediately before that termination , was the protected tenant of the dwelling-house shall , if and so long as he occupies the dwelling-house as his residence , be the statutory tenant of it ; … |
55 | And so long as a transaction falls within the scope of an activity set out in the objects clause ( ’ manufacturing ’ , ‘ property development ’ , and so on ) it will be authorised . |
56 | She will go free before I do and so long as she is captive will I be . |
57 | ‘ How you feel is how you feel and how you climax is how you climax , and so long as you let a man know those things , there should n't be a problem , ’ David said . |
58 | So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple . |
59 | The Government has stated that , as well as continuing cover on non-vested markets for NCM , it will provide reinsurance for those contracts which are deemed to be in the ‘ national interest ’ for as long as the Government considers its existence essential to meet the reasonable needs of exporters and so long as it performs satisfactorily as a trading facility . |
60 | So long as you know how far it is to the line , and so long as someone is calling out the time to the start , you just need to judge your speed correctly . |