Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] long [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For ‘ the game ’ was one that everyone played , and that was all right so long as you took your losses without squealing . |
| 2 | ‘ Papa says it 's all right so long as there are other people around . ’ |
| 3 | But Miss Philimore seems to think she 's all right so long as she 's watched , and it would save me having to look for someone else . ’ |
| 4 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 5 | To take an obvious case , modern manufacturing industries can only go on so long as there are capitalists and workers . |
| 6 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 7 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 8 | The pragmatist might suggest that precision is fine only so long as everyone understands the term : in fact , Pulex irritans is less obviously a flea , than ‘ flea ’ . |
| 9 | However , the aura of the military genius paving the way for lasting prosperity through final victory could almost by definition last only so long as one glorious triumph after another — and all without significant material sacrifice and loss — was attained . |
| 10 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 11 | The environmental conditions with which the system is in equilibrium may shift , and only so long as the equilibrium can be set at new and workable positions can the species survive . |
| 12 | Most of them are interested in education , if at all , only so long as their own children are at school . |
| 13 | Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him . |
| 14 | The procedural advantages persisted even at Rome only so long as there were two procedural systems , which at the end of the third century ceased to be the case . |
| 15 | Furthermore , China has been compelled to accept western technology by that universal and all-powerful human trait , which can be summed up thus : — ‘ Human beings are satisfied with the status quo only so long as nothing more attractive is experienced ’ . |
| 16 | Citizens of the United Kingdom do , however , have an individual right of access to the European enforcement agencies whether Her Majesty 's government likes it or not , so long that is , and only so long as that government continues to accede to the Convention and the jurisdiction of the machinery which it establishes . |
| 17 | Therefore , only so long as a woman is in labour shall he give up Israel ; and then those that survive of his race shall rejoin their brethren . |
| 18 | Learning is a ‘ free commodity ’ , but only so long as we are thinking of knowledge as a source of intrinsic , expressive rewards . |
| 19 | Those standing by the IBM shares for the sake of the thumping 6% plus yield now recognise that the dividend is safe only so long as the present management team is in place — and few would gamble much now on John Akers and his cronies seeing the year out . |
| 20 | Conti 's opinion was that reconciliation could be achieved , but only so long as the Scriptures were understood to speak the language of common people . |
| 21 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 22 | A declaration of dominance , of the attitude that had accepted Darwin only so long as his ideas could be misrepresented in shuffling the animal kingdom into a league table with man several steps above its head , almost within touching distance of God . |
| 23 | But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent . |
| 24 | Academics already in post retain their tenure only so long as they do not move to another university or accept promotion within their present university . |
| 25 | Those days have gone only so long as a Government are in power who are determined to continue a regime of common sense and reasonable and balanced industrial relations . |
| 26 | You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved . |
| 27 | A company can protect information of this kind only so long as it is confidential to the business and not in the public domain . |
| 28 | The system can function only so long as the financial stability of LCH 's position is preserved so that the risks normally inherent in futures and options trading are effectively balanced . |
| 29 | The consensus will last only so long as most lawyers accept the convictions that support it . |
| 30 | First , gathering , hunting , and fishing do not represent clearly different technological stages but always occur together so long as the environment permits the combination . |