Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think so long as you can keep the parts of the structure there |
| 32 | It is trivially easy to select for a particular genetic formula , so long as you can read the genes of all the animals . |
| 33 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 34 | She was perfectly happy to live like a student twenty years after art college , anything so long as she could paint . |
| 35 | The agreement stated that ‘ in consideration of such dfesire ’ the executors would convey the cottage to the widow for her life or so long as she should continue a widow . |
| 36 | She had forsaken her people and her father 's house , and had , like every other well-brought-up girl , established her own household and she should cleave only unto it , forsaking all others so long as she should live . |
| 37 | And they say he will fashion any spell so long as someone will pay him enough . ’ |
| 38 | Studying the semantic features of texts is inevitably rather an intuitive business , and in so far as we can quantify such features at all , it often seems best to attach them to grammatical labels ( eg " colour adjectives " , " adverbials of place " ) , and to use some arbitrary standard of measurement , such as number of words . |
| 39 | So far as we can tell , the men-folk ruled in every sphere ; but it may be that the further one got from the world of high feudalism the less of a slave the woman became ; it is certainly true , in a rather different way , that the Norman Conquest brought both a more complete feudalism and a fall in the status of women . |
| 40 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 41 | The English fyrd was used in the Danish wars , but only later , so far as we can tell , as a local militia in emergencies . |
| 42 | He was not , so far as we can tell , putting forward the idea as a serious theory : his purpose was to tell a good story . |
| 43 | The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances . |
| 44 | Who ( or what sort of audience ) must the implied addressee(s) be , so far as we can tell from the passage itself ? |
| 45 | On the eve of the crisis , most politicians , political commentators and — so far as we can tell — citizens remained sceptical that the sixty-seven year old General would ever play a major role in politics again . |
| 46 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 47 | This is the grim side to his thought : the circumstances of her ‘ taking ’ the veil were , so far as we can see , irrelevant . |
| 48 | Certainly , so far as we can see , he took no steps to promote the interests of his younger son , apart from not insisting that he take the cross . |
| 49 | The problem with it , so far as we can see , is that if the political system is democratic and the state is relatively neutral then how is it that anyone could use the system in such a way as to ensure that it permanently advantaged them to the exclusion of other actors and interests in the system ? |
| 50 | And in so far as we can use gender imagery for these things the Logos is a masculine principle … . |
| 51 | We also judge work performance by the quality of the product ( in so far as we can assess this ) and by the work style of the performer . |
| 52 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 53 | And it is true that whereas on the whole Pound managed his amorous career with more decorum than Shelley , still the pattern was , so far as we can discern , not very different . |
| 54 | Footnotes in plenty have been added to Dodd , but his pattern remains a fair summary of the early preaching so far as we can reconstruct it . |
| 55 | Even so , the starting-point , so far as we can find one , was polytheistic . |
| 56 | er you know so far as we can get that erm and I 'll then give you a description of how the theory er predicts your er preferences for behaving in particular ways , would work out . |
| 57 | I think er what this exercise today has shown us is that only about half the factors in H two er have a strategic dimension in so far as they would affect a choice between broad sectors around York . |
| 58 | Thus when determining what contracts fall within or outside the ambit of s 3 , issues of reasonableness , equality of bargaining power and the possibility of negotiation are in fact not very relevant , except in so far as they could move a judge to finding that terms were standard or not in borderline cases . |
| 59 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 60 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |