Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pron] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The population , though reduced to eating cats and dogs , fought back , however , so long as their ammunition lasted , with 16-pounder [ 7.3-kg ] and 24-pounder [ 11-kg ] cannon , continuous musket fire and frequent sorties and on 30 July an expedition led by General Kirke rammed the boom ; the following day , as the first stores were being unloaded , the siege was abandoned , having lasted 105 days . |
| 2 | According to my religion , I could , so long as my wife grants her consent . |
| 3 | The essence of what Mr Hussain said was that following the marriage he would remain in England on a settled basis as a married man for just so long as his wife dictated . |
| 4 | In a two-person game , if player 1 adopts strategy A and player 2 adopts B this constitutes a Nash equilibrium if neither player would gain by changing his strategy , so long as his opponent sticks to his . |
| 5 | So far as their work goes it has point only as a mean to these . |
| 6 | According to Marsh and his colleagues ( 1978 ) police intervention is often welcomed by the hooligans in so far as their presence provides a safety valve and prevents the aggro from going too far . |
| 7 | Jane Cox was 21 , attractive , single and hardworking in so far as her condition allowed . |
| 8 | The adulterer is the cause of this in so far as his/her act has allowed a superhuman being to attack the spouse . |
| 9 | ‘ What I could n't see was how the life and death of Someone Else ( whoever he was ) 2000 years ago could help us here and now — except in so far as his example helped us . ’ |