Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ?
2 Not so long as we 've got the stuff .
3 Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him .
4 ( 4 ) An applicant shall not be treated as having failed to comply with subsection ( 2 ) ( b ) above if the notice is , without any fault or intention of his , removed , obscured or defaced before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered , so long as he has taken reasonable steps for its protection and , if need be , replacement .
5 So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear .
6 There 's also a guy called Ron Tyson who collects every magazine article ever written about Hendrix … so long as it 's got Hendrix on the front cover .
7 I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number .
8 So long as I 've got somebody now there 's nobody along here .
9 ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’
10 SO LONG AS YOU 'VE GOT YOUR ELF , THAT 'S THE MAIN THING !
11 That 's capitalism and you , so long as you 've got buyers and sellers you get this antagonism of interest between buyers and sellers .
12 If they are lost or stolen , you can recover their value so long as you have kept a note of their numbers separately .
13 Here 's money for my meat ; I would have left it on the board , so soon As I had made my meal ; and parted With prayers for the provider
14 I think that so far as we 've got .
15 We , we are er Chairman involved in Redhill proposals in so far as we have submitted erm a series of er points to the local authorities concerned and tomorrow er as it happens is the date for the pre-enquiry meeting , the enquiry is due to be held er in I think late spring May er time , I 'm not sure of the exact date
16 In so far as they have grown up in an ad hoc fashion , designed by the art colleges on an individual basis , it is difficult to generalize about them .
17 so far as they have made some er adjustment , we will be able to judge whether the scale of adjustment they 've made was a was a reasonable thing .
18 Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons .
19 Assuming , then , that your memory of the principal facts of your subject , so far as you have studied it , is proving adequate , how can you improve the results of study by further techniques ?
20 He was grappling to define love itself , in so far as he had experienced it and now understood it .
21 It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will .
22 But managing director Mr Peter Jarvis admitted : ‘ Because of the squeeze on spending , retailing , particularly in the South-east , is not doing so well as we had hoped . ’
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