Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family , so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from , then usually the Parish Registers and things like the Census Returns over the last hundred years are usually able to help them . |
| 2 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got some , something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from . |
| 3 | Nor does the fact that , so long as they consider that the affairs of the business they own are being conducted well enough on their behalf , owners do not choose to exercise their ultimate authority , provide any reason for supposing either that companies would be better managed if trade unions were implicated in management or that owners would acquiesce in the assumption , in whole or in part , of their rights by any other party — let alone by one whose essential interests are often opposed to their own . |
| 4 | So long as they understand that there 's this also the erm you know er said to me , Oh it 's just English sort of said differently . |
| 5 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 6 | So long as they understand or we have communicated to them , why we want them to do that . |
| 7 | For the social sciences have more to gain from each other than they have to lose , and the precise origin and pedigree of new findings and theories is of little importance so long as they extend and expand our understanding of the world . |
| 8 | Nor do they even care very much about their state of liquidity , so long as they think that they can force the banks to bail them out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 14 | He will never be content , so long as he knows that he is in our debt . ’ |
| 15 | So long as he remembers that , when mounting a picket in his opponents ' penalty area , he is only allowed a maximum of six operatives on the line , he should be able to enjoy free and frank access to the other side 's position . |
| 16 | I explained that the meeting could elect anything it wished so long as it understood that the ‘ original organisers , … would make up their own minds what status , if any , to accord those elected . |
| 17 | If an Act of Parliament has been obtained improperly , it is for the legislature to correct it by repealing it : but , so long as it exists as law , the courts are bound to obey it . |
| 18 | He was jealous of Florian , she accepted , but she could take little comfort or encouragement from the knowledge , except in so far as it meant that he was n't ready to put an end to their affair quite yet . |
| 19 | Indeed , the passage in Megarry on The Rent Acts , at pp. 386–387 is wrong , in so far as it suggests that there may be a right in a landlord to re-enter peaceably , in the circumstances of this sort of case , between an order for possession and execution of the order by the bailiff . |
| 20 | This is true , of course , in so far as it means that no contemporary authors were going to write stories about a single murderer being exposed when lawlessness was rife and human life generally seen as of little account . |
| 21 | One last matter please erm , so far as I understand that you 've not yet drafted the separate staff requirement for reconnaissance , I beg you pardon , reconnaissance equipment for Eurofighter two thousand . |
| 22 | He also maintained his interest in collective consumption in so far as he argued that a successful urban social movement must articulate a demand for that kind of state-provided facility . |
| 23 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |