Example sentences of "so [adv] as they [verb] that " 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 | 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 . |