Example sentences of "so [adv] as we [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 2 | In analysing this argument , Hirschi ( 1973 , p. 171 ) concludes that ‘ Sociology will suffer … so long as we believe that our assumptions guarantee truth , while their assumptions guarantee error , whatever the facts may be ’ . |
| 3 | The class can take on the role of any group of people unified by a common concern or problem , so long as we ensure that every child has an active role to play . |
| 4 | So long as we think that good must be identical with some one natural property we can not but suppose that all good things have some such property in common . |
| 5 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |