Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [pron] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa . |
| 2 | So long as nobody knows how it started . ’ |
| 3 | RICHARD Gere is desperate to have children so long as he does not have to change any nappies . |
| 4 | I can get through all this , she thought , so long as he does n't touch me . |
| 5 | Why does it matter if your husband gets the lunch and drops the crumbs on the floor , so long as he clears up afterwards ? |
| 6 | His insecurity will persist so long as he bottles up change , no matter how well his ruling party behaves . |
| 7 | ‘ Cheap electricity 's the answer to the first — sod the cost to the environment so long as it keeps down the cost to the consumer . |
| 8 | ‘ Just so long as it does n't get in here . ’ |
| 9 | Moreover , the value of each gene can change any amount , so long as it does n't stray into double figures . |
| 10 | ‘ So long as it does n't interfere with your work ! ’ he snarled , and , as if he could no longer bear to be in the same room with her , he turned and strode from her sitting-room , through her hall , and out of her flat . |
| 11 | Again and again in the night hours she thought of him , of his aggression and of the barely veiled hint in his parting shot ‘ so long as it does n't interfere with your work ! ’ that for all she had , so far , gone along with everything he had decreed , she could still find herself out of a job if she did n't toe the line . |
| 12 | It 's great — so long as it does n't rain too hard ! |
| 13 | Whatever so long as it does n't matter , do n't worry about it , why you upset ? |
| 14 | We do n't really mind if people get an attack of flu , so long as it does n't kill them , er if you recover then fine , but , and that 's really what the vaccine does , so it 's , it 's , it 's particularly good at actually stopping people dying from , from flu . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | An extra incentive can be useful so long as it does not become a too regular ( relied upon ) habit . |
| 17 | Whatever we honestly desire , imagine and expect — so long as it does not conflict with our thoughts , beliefs and attitudes — will happen . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | If you cut off your nose and ears before we perform , I shall not complain , so long as it does not mar your ability to dance . ’ |
| 20 | Where the plan is subordinate to the verbal description it may be referred to in order to elucidate boundaries , so long as it does not conflict with anything explicit in the verbal description ( Wiggington & Milner v Winster Engineering [ 1978 ] 3 All ER 436 ) . |
| 21 | By and large , Parliament and the judiciary have taken the view that free speech is a very good thing so long as it does not cause trouble . |
| 22 | I 'm willing therefore to call it ‘ A Lakeland Circuit ’ , so long as it remains merely ‘ a ’ circuit and does not become ‘ the ’ circuit . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His position could be summed up as saying that so long as it has not been established beyond doubt that God does not exist , we should believe in God . |
| 25 | The good news is that the most common infestation , by the woodworm — or anobium punctatum or furniture beetle , call it what you will — can be treated , so long as it has not gone too far into the timbers , at a cost of a few hundred pounds . |
| 26 | That it does n't matter if you cheat on your wife , so long as she does n't find out . |
| 27 | The allowance is given from the date of bereavement to the end of that tax year , and for the following year so long as she has not remarried by the start of that year . |
| 28 | With less children , a woman can feel at peace , she does n't get old so quickly as she has n't got so much work . |
| 29 | Of the three gradation schemes under discussion , the Canadian is the simplest in so far as it creates only three degrees of offence . |
| 30 | The emperor 's approach is to adhere to that principle and hold the trust to be valid in so far as it does not conflict with it : that is , as far as the daughter benefited under her father 's will . |