Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such arrangements have for some time been permitted so long as clients are fully informed of the nature of the company and the profits go to the firm . |
| 2 | Some of these matters clearly fall within the ‘ good neighbour ’ concept , ’ while others are based on the principle that compensation is not to be paid merely because maximum exploitation has been prevented so long as development of a reasonably remunerative character is allowed . |
| 3 | and we shall journey in unity that have been separated so long . |
| 4 | The usual way of expressing Boyle 's law , however , is Thus , when a gas is allowed to expand ( or is compressed ) at constant temperature from an initial volume of V1 to a final volume of V2 , the final pressure P2 can be calculated so long as the initial pressure Pl is known . |
| 5 | In its original form , it is a time-consuming and complicated procedure , but it can be simplified so long as the underlying principles are honoured ( see Arnold , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | He therefore directed that if J. were to suffer a life-threatening event while in the health authority 's care and the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority should cause such measures ( including artificial ventilation ) to be applied so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 7 | Eventually equipment purchases will have to be made so long as the demand for packaging is there . |
| 8 | Is the Minister satisfied that those humanitarian needs have been met and are being met , or that they can be met so long as there is a risk to the Kurdish population from the evil dictator in Baghdad ? |
| 9 | British law in this area is roughly based on the liberal precept that immorality may only be tolerated so long as it remains a wholly private matter . |
| 10 | Yet this very claim for monarchy implies a limitation : the irrational and reverential institution is to be tolerated so long as it serves its function . |
| 11 | The units are expendable and can easily be replaced so long as the tree is healthy . |
| 12 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 13 | Although the laws will doubtless be tightened , no cure for the current state of financial laxity will be found so long as Yugoslavia has a ‘ soft budget ’ approach to monetary policy , and persists in its attempts to combine self-management with the doctrine of ‘ social ownership ’ . |
| 14 | All Yugoslav nationals in Eighth Army area were to be returned so long as this did not involve the " use of force " . |
| 15 | Our young friends will be wondering why we 've been gone so long . |
| 16 | You 've been gone so long I thought someone had run off with you . ’ |
| 17 | He 'd been gone so long , without a word to her on his whereabouts , and now he was back and wanting to celebrate ! |
| 18 | Journalists do not mind being reminded so long as they do not think you are pressing them to write something they can not be sure will be published . |
| 19 | The CICB said the woman were abused so long ago that their cases had to be considered under the pre-1979 rules which excluded compensation for offences committed by relatives living under the same roof . |
| 20 | I spect she 's worried about me , being gone so long . |
| 21 | Mandatory penalties are very much the exception , and although there are statutory maximum penalties for particular offences , most of these were devised so long ago , and in such different circumstances , as to render them largely irrelevant for the control of judicial sentencing today . |
| 22 | Most crossed just for the experience of a freedom they had been denied so long . |
| 23 | In Jordan v. Burgoyne Lord Parker C.J. made the point that the expressions ‘ threatening , abusive or insulting ’ are all ‘ very strong words , ’ and Lord Reid in Brutus v. Cozens repeated the warning against too expansive a reading of the section , observing that ‘ vigorous and it may be distasteful or unmannerly speech or behaviour is permitted so long as it does not go beyond any of these limits . ’ |
| 24 | Her mother and cold-hearted step-father tax her wage packet , the job is drudgery — and finally there 's the man … whom Iris , with her mind full of trashy romances , mistakenly takes for the fairy prince she 's awaited so long . |
| 25 | Deer can be hunted , for example , whatever the reason , and nothing wrong is done so long as they are not overhunted . |
| 26 | The only real surprise about Danny Rampling 's fine debut single ‘ I Hate Hate ’ is that it 's taken so long for a DJ of his reputation to commit himself to vinyl . |
| 27 | The long-established Manx cat is certainly as abnormal as any of them , with its strangely abbreviated backbone and the problems this causes , but its presence at cat shows was accepted so long ago that nobody now objects to its inclusion . |
| 28 | None was admitted so long as Coleman was alive . |
| 29 | That maintenance was continued so long is probably due to the fact that Gordon Thomas , its instigator , had by this time become General Manager of the Grand Junction Company , and it is understandable that he would have been reluctant to preside over the disintegration of the lift , his most original and spectacular achievement . |