Example sentences of "so long as [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Where the prosecution fails to establish intention , the offence will be reduced to the lower category , to be considered in section 8.3 ( c ) below , so long as recklessness is proved .
2 Game theory demonstrates that it is usually most adaptive to be variable or unpredictable , so long as evolution or personal experience takes care to set the odds appropriately .
3 Since money is seen as one component of total wealth , we can expect the demand for money to be directly related to total wealth so long as money is regarded as a ‘ normal good ’ by wealth-holders. ( b ) Rates of return on financial assets ( R ) .
4 The demand for money will be directly related to total wealth ( which is the sum of human and non-human wealth ) so long as money is regarded as a ‘ normal good ’ by wealth holders .
5 They will grow good cereal crops so long as soil structure is maintained by the return of sufficient organic matter .
6 So long as agriculture is an enterprise carried out in the open air , crops ( and therefore working capital ) will always be at risk .
7 And of his views in the 1840s he wrote : " We were now much less democrats than I had been , because so long as education continues to be so wretchedly imperfect , we dreaded the ignorance and especially the selfishness and brutality of the mass … " ( p. 138 )
8 They really do n't care where they send them so long as call up up Edingley Hill what
9 In our culture to give equal status is a contradiction in terms , so long as gender is an expression of power relations and the male continues to be the superior term .
10 This outperforms the return on conventional gilts of the same maturity so long as inflation is above 1 p.c. to 2 p.c . ’
11 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 .
12 In turn , such attitudes must inevitably remain indeterminate , so long as history has more roads down which to stumble .
13 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 .
14 This , however , was impossible so long as descent was reckoned according to mother right .
15 This was impossible , Engels tells us , so long as descent was reckoned in the female line , because he believed inheritance and group membership always went hand in hand .
16 Equilibrium w and M will increase so long as inequality ( 27 ) holds .
17 The flinty soils overlying chalk are ideal grazing land so long as water is available .
18 So long as land prices and interest rates remain astronomically high , few will be in a position to buy a holding , however small , with any prospect of their capital paying them a living through genuine farming ( as opposed to exploitation or ‘ mining ’ ) .
19 So long as heterosexism continues , it will continue to spawn separatism .
20 At last , thanks to safer sex , it is almost trendy to admit to self-abuse so long as porn had nothing to do with it .
21 So long as selection policies did not come under scrutiny this was acceptable .
22 In a population confined to a particular habitat competition for limited resources is an inevitable feature of life so long as reproduction occurs .
23 Competition for limited resources is an inevitable feature of life so long as reproduction occurs in the context of finite supplies .
24 There seemed no hope of removing the National Government so long as division continued . "
25 If we have to make a comparison between the individual approaches , I think that channel two felt we had to be punished for our sins while Channel 4 took the more sanguine view that for so long as love and sex exist , television might as well look on , an electronic voyeuristic intermediary .
26 Big business remained dominant in the economy — so long as prosperity continued .
27 To follow Cole that far would come perilously near to accepting that Co-operation was , as nearly as makes no difference , the Consumers ' Movement ; and that its future lay in further growth beyond that already achieved by 1939 until , so long as progress continued , it could within its chosen field have virtually displaced all competing provision and all competing manufacture for the purpose of provision .
28 Also so long as consumption is not fully socialised ( surely an impossibility ) particular groups of workers will have an interest in raising their own particular level of consumption .
29 Masculinity can be problematized , even feminized , so long as homosexuality remains as its defining other .
30 He suggests that there is a strong argument for decentralization to local government ( and potentially a limited hierarchy with some overlapping powers ) so long as information is available which makes it possible for voters to judge between them and thus to influence the direction of their own local government through elections .
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