Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] as [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 4 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 5 | Just so long as we maintain the candidacy . ’ |
| 6 | Just so long as we understand each other . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Good , ’ he said coldly , ‘ just so long as we understand each other . |
| 8 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 9 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 10 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 11 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 12 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |
| 13 | But they have to call in a vet from time to time , and it 's with those farmers that I think you 'll have most success , just so long as you keep your charges low . ’ |
| 14 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |
| 15 | Do n't bother about the rent if you have n't got it now , just so long as you pay me as soon as you get back . |
| 16 | Just so long as I know . ’ |
| 17 | Although the skirt panels look perfectly flat when seen on air , in reality they follow varying angles to the original base vertical planes , bending ever so slightly as they rise up from the fender section to join up at the midriff . |
| 18 | People just did n't take themselves quite so seriously as they do at Crufts . |
| 19 | This may provide another justification for the anthropic principle , for if all the histories are possible , then so long as we exist in one of the histories , we may use the anthropic principle to explain why the universe is found to be the way it is . |
| 20 | Okay so long as you know . |