Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] the [noun pl] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So long as the things being moved and shaken show no ripples … |
| 2 | However , so long as the figures are seen as illustrations of typical developments and not as a catalogue of all possible types of flow , this may not matter much . |
| 3 | Now erm well let , let me start again people think okay , if the Conservatives win , win control alright it might be another fifty pence on night class at the er at the , the college you know , something something like that erm it might mean erm a few redundancies in the town hall and a greater level of privatization but s but people tend to think well so what so long as the bins are getting emptied . |
| 4 | So long as the Americans are only afraid that we might land on this island , and do n't know we 're already here , they will pay no attention to our activities . |
| 5 | So long as the eddies are still relatively small compared with the length scale of the mean flow ( e.g. wake width ) , their features are adequately described by the considerations of Section 19.3 . |
| 6 | This may be true , but I doubt if it is , just so long as the words are right . |
| 7 | Conti 's opinion was that reconciliation could be achieved , but only so long as the Scriptures were understood to speak the language of common people . |
| 8 | Hard hitting criticism and savage satire can generally be successfully defended as honest comment , so long as the exaggerations are not so extreme as to indicate malice . |
| 9 | So long as the witnesses are willing to attend to give evidence the examination may be completed and the result returned to the foreign court without the intervention of the court in England . |
| 10 | But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple . |
| 11 | So long as the Squigs are successfully herded by the prodder-armed Night Goblins they are moved and fight just like any other unit . |
| 12 | However , so long as the images are in analogue form , they can not easily be processed and manipulated . |
| 13 | If the language is slang , what does it matter so long as the preachers are radiant with the experience they speak of , and live in the midst of the same social situation , with all its problems and difficulties , as the listeners ? |
| 14 | It 's acceptable to lay the parquet directly on a suspended timber floor fitted with ordinary floorboards , so long as the boards are firmly fixed and not warped . |
| 15 | So far as the dispersers are concerned , being generalist would overcome the problems of poor years of any particular plant species , which , in any case , rarely fruit continuously throughout the year . |
| 16 | So far as the Directors are aware , the close company provisions of the Corporation Tax Act 1976 do not apply . |
| 17 | So far as the Directors are aware , the Company is not a close company for taxation purposes . |
| 18 | But anyway nineteen ninety three has been another successful year for the Garrick , which started , so far as the productions are concerned with the pantomime , Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves directed by Jill her debut as a director , hopefully not her last . |
| 19 | Wilson later admitted that so far as the shipowners were concerned , " It was blow given and blow returned . |
| 20 | This follows an après-ski dinner at La Rocca mountain restaurant , accompanied by singing and , so far as the adults are concerned , much passing of the ceremonial grolla , a multi-spouted loving cup containing a potent alcoholic brew . |
| 21 | So far as the seamen were concerned , the impossible had been achieved . |
| 22 | As both crimes carried an automatic death sentence , along with many others , so far as the prisoners were concerned , any specific charge was purely academic . |
| 23 | Decision : the aggravating features of the offence were the age of the victim ( 61 ) , the fact that as a taxi driver he was vulnerable and an easy target ; the isolated location in which the offence was committed ; the degree of violence and the fact that it continued after the theft had been completed ; the fact that the victim had been left , so far as the offenders were aware , unconscious , and the fact that two men were involved , and an implement may have been used . |
| 24 | When their reports of what they were thinking about were examined , it was found that these were frequently bizarre , commonly involved complex stories with visual imagery and , so far as the experimenters were concerned , were indistinguishable from dream reports . |
| 25 | This is , of course , a time of smokescreens so far as the Masters is concerned and to hear some of the Europeans talk over the last few days , they appear to be in need of the psychiatrist 's couch as much as anything . |
| 26 | It is not obvious , in reviewing this system , exactly where the element of indirection came in , except in so far as the Residents were instructed to maintain at all costs the ‘ prestige ’ of the emir . |
| 27 | At some stage a suggestion arose from both sides — principally Damerell of BUPA so far as the doctors were concerned and , strangely enough , also from Barbara and the DHSS — that the consultancy strike was so damaging that a mediator should be sought . |
| 28 | What I found , though , was that what appeared to be a very good erm system from an ideal point of view was actually terribly hard to cope with so far as the teachers were concerned . |
| 29 | . 35 Coventry … 6 SO far as the ratings are concerned , Leicester 's Lethal Weapon 2 is in the process of becoming a smash hit . |
| 30 | It is irrelevant that , so far as the employees are concerned , they are working in the same premises with the same equipment and on the same job as before the sale and perhaps have not even been informed that a sale has taken place ( Woodhouse v Peter Brotherhood Ltd [ 1972 ] 2 QB 520 ; Woodcock v Committee for the Time Being of the Friends School Wigton and Genwise Ltd [ 1987 ] IRLR 98 , CA ) . |