Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] a [noun sg] be " in BNC.

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1 Lear is now experiencing the truth of La Rochefoucauld 's maxim that ‘ So long as a man is still in a position to help others he will rarely encounter ingratitude . ’
2 Those days have gone only so long as a Government are in power who are determined to continue a regime of common sense and reasonable and balanced industrial relations .
3 The justification supposes that so long as a person is possessed of a right , that right may be exercised regardless of the consequences for others .
4 So long as a fissure is known to exist between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor about the ERM , the task of convincing the financial markets that policy is in safe hands will be made infinitely more difficult .
5 Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field .
6 Therefore , only so long as a woman is in labour shall he give up Israel ; and then those that survive of his race shall rejoin their brethren .
7 So long as an account 's written down somewhere , no one 's going to fuss about the details .
8 Because the bottom line so far as a broadcaster 's concerned , or a studio 's , a station 's concerned , is to keep the listeners listening .
9 An answer to this , I shall argue , so far as an answer is possible at all , can be given only through an analysis of experiences from the point of view of the one who has the experiences ; i.e. through a phenomenological analysis of the modes of experiencing .
10 He did n't feel this so strongly when a corpse was far advanced in decay .
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