Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] as [pron] [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
| 4 | Furthermore s. 2(4) European Communities Act 1972 provides that any Act of the Westminster Parliament shall be presumed not to conflict with EEC legislation , and will be given effect only so far as it does not conflict with the EEC legislation . |
| 5 | An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem . |
| 6 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 10 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Just so long as we maintain the candidacy . ’ |
| 13 | Just so long as we understand each other . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Good , ’ he said coldly , ‘ just so long as we understand each other . |
| 15 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 16 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 17 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 18 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 19 | I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me . |
| 20 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 21 | ‘ Just so long as it does n't get in here . ’ |
| 22 | Any word could follow any other word , just so long as it matched the phonetic input description . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Just so long as I know . ’ |
| 28 | Paul wriggled , and the look on his face seemed to indicate that he would n't actually mind wasting anything , just so long as he got to hit the bell with his plank of wood . |
| 29 | In the sonnet just quoted , for instance , Shakespeare presents the Poet in a humiliating situation , indifferent to the behaviour of the Mistress with other men just so long as he gets some share of the action . |
| 30 | ‘ A good governor does as he pleases on his world , just so long as he pays his tithes in treasure and people . |