Example sentences of "so [adv] as [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the cake is covered in buttercream it will not keep so long as cakes made with fondant , so eat it fairly soon after it is made . |
| 2 | And of his views in the 1840s he wrote : " We were now much less democrats than I had been , because so long as education continues to be so wretchedly imperfect , we dreaded the ignorance and especially the selfishness and brutality of the mass … " ( p. 138 ) |
| 3 | So long as newspapers remain in awe of political authority , they are beyond criticism ; once they challenge that authority , they suffer the full force of its reaction . |
| 4 | Competition for limited resources is an inevitable feature of life so long as reproduction occurs in the context of finite supplies . |
| 5 | On Feb. 6 the US Secretary of State James Baker announced that the US administration would delay submitting the CFE treaty to Congress for ratification so long as questions remained about Soviet compliance with the treaty . |
| 6 | So long as demand stays at 1,000 units , no net investment will take place . |
| 7 | Butenko called in particular for the establishment of a socialist civil society , based upon a wide dispersal of ownership ( so long as workers depended upon their employers , even under public ownership , they could never become the agents of their own destiny ) . |
| 8 | In so far as history aspires to meaning , it is doomed to select regions , periods , groups of men and individuals in these groups and to make them stand out , as discontinuous figures , against a continuity barely good enough to be used as a backdrop . |
| 9 | payments of capital do not attract inheritance tax liability , except in so far as income earned by the fund has not been paid out . |
| 10 | In so far as Derek thought at all about who had murdered Maurice Abberley — or why — he supposed a crazed hitch-hiker must have been responsible . |