Example sentences of "but so [adv] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its drawbacks were obvious , but so long as the tsar sought noble acquiescence in reform it probably represented the only sort of emancipation which had a chance of reaching the statute book . |
| 2 | The other powers did n't like it — they wanted Britain to get out of Egypt — but so long as the fiction could be maintained that the British were there at the express request of the Egyptian sovereign , there was not much they could do about it . |
| 3 | ‘ But so long as the system remains as it is , those who choose to disregard their obligations must realise they may face a fine . ’ |
| 4 | But so long as the company 's objective is maximum profits , a concern with the welfare of third parties is necessarily an instrumental one : it is a means of protecting profitability in the long term . |
| 5 | A recession would cut back London 's traffic but so long as the economy keeps growing , the result will be more cars , more traffic and more pollution . |
| 6 | But so long as the tribunal decides the question assigned to it by the law , its relative opinion will bind , subject to appeal . |
| 7 | It can bolt it or it can corner but so long as the muzzle is in place it can not kill . |
| 8 | But so long as the distinction remains , disaffection in so far as it appeals to existing principles of legitimacy , can be both conservative and loyal . |
| 9 | You need special cards to get in even if you are a visitor but so far as the computer is concerned that did not have the same security ? ’ |
| 10 | But so far as the problem of holism is concerned , attempts to formulate such a priori defences of individualism are unsatisfactory in two ways . |
| 11 | Definitions are difficult , but so far as the workstation market can be defined , Dataquest reckons that it gained only 4.2% in 1992 , following a 14.5% gain in 1991 , and suggests that the slowdown in revenue was down to the overall mix of workstations shipped shifting towards lower-priced systems , and to the poor economic climate in Japan , so that the market crept up to $9,000m . |
| 12 | But so far as the economy was concerned , lack of reach was a much bigger problem than lack of speed . |
| 13 | Of course , intuitionists and emotivists disagree about the availability of ‘ rational intuition ’ ( guided by such principles as that of organic unities ) but so far as the relation between the merely factual and the ethical goes they are at one . |
| 14 | But so far as the confusions about to be examined are concerned , it does not solve the difficulty . |