Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | First , gathering , hunting , and fishing do not represent clearly different technological stages but always occur together so long as the environment permits the combination . |
| 4 | She was tall , perfectly proportioned , and was more than happy for it to be admired , just so long as the admiration did not get too intrusive . |
| 5 | Chris will be happy just so long as the examiners like his work . |
| 6 | This may be true , but I doubt if it is , just so long as the words are right . |
| 7 | More so even than the ethnographers , philologists and other suppliers of ethnic and national services who have usually also been mobilised . |
| 8 | IN THESE violent times when all young children are at risk — more so now that the nights are dark when they are coming home from school — the Government promised last year that this year they would leave the clocks alone . |
| 9 | The former is a stable product and file transfers work perfectly so long as the user is n't too feature hungry . |
| 10 | The peculiar design of funnel shown in the drawing would work perfectly well so long as the input was pretty focused . |
| 11 | Thus many modern historians of classical Greece follow Thucydides and other commentators in arguing that democracy worked quite well so long as the populace was content to follow the leadership of educated spokesmen of the upper class like Pericles : " It was he who led them , rather than they who led him … |
| 12 | Even so far as the Regulation is concerned , which may be operational in less than three months , several questions remain open . |
| 13 | Finally , some insects are also capable of backward flight by shifting the plane of vibration , sometimes so far that the wings actually move upwards on the " downbeat " ( Fig. 38 ) . |
| 14 | Perhaps few of the inhabitants went quite so far as the parents of Fly-Fornication Richardson of Waldron or Small-hope Biggs of Rye in their statements of religious principle , but a dominant number of the eastern rural and urban elite found their religious and political sympathies increasingly divorced from the fumbling attempts of the Stuarts to impose their image of the monarchy . |
| 15 | No man , nor even a dog , a monkey or a dolphin , would be fooled quite so readily as the robin , though we too react according to habituated mental patterns . |
| 16 | If , for example , your company uses PCs extensively but the obvious choice in software happens only to run on a Unix workstation then so long as the files can be transported between the two systems there is no penalty in selecting an ‘ alien ’ hardware platform . |
| 17 | He replied that on the facts as stated it did not appear , at least so far as the testator 's words were concerned , that it was entrusted to Pamphilus that he should make over a hundred . |
| 18 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 19 | university this term , at least so far as the community is concerned , is our Open Day on Saturday June the fourteenth . |
| 20 | Tolerance of strangers may be morally right however threatened one feels , at least so long as the strangers respect the laws and customs of the country they have settled in . |
| 21 | The Yorkshire boxers ' misfortune at having to box twice so soon before the N-E Counties finals can only help the N-E division winners , who laid on another fine night of boxing at Gateshead Leisure Centre on Friday . |