Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pers pn] were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United States , the Library of Congress has been classifying and cataloguing audio-visual materials for many years , so long as they were deposited at the Library for copyright purposes . |
| 2 | Children , after all , he thought , looking at Abigail , were happy wherever they were , so long as they were loved … |
| 3 | And so long as they were eating out … |
| 4 | Their Lordships abstain from detailed discussions of these questions , in so far as they were developed in argument , for that would lead the Board to fall into precisely the errors against which Griffiths L.J . |
| 5 | Would-be ambassadors thus continued to be trained , in so far as they were trained at all , by the time-honoured method of acting as secretaries to older and more experienced diplomats , or by being attached in some subordinate capacity to one of their country 's embassies abroad . |
| 6 | In so far as they were looking forward , it was with a much more gradual pace of development in mind . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal held that those transactions were valid so far as they were entered into for the purposes of interest rate risk management and not for trading purposes . |