Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pers pn] [am/are] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as they are stimulated by low-frequency nervous impulses , such muscles can respond directly to stretching . |
| 2 | Detached garages with a floor area of less than 30sq m ( 325sq ft ) are exempt from control , so long as they are constructed wholly of non-combustible material ( which most garages are ) , or are more than 1m from the boundary in the case of wooden buildings . |
| 3 | So long as they are kept busy in Port-au-Prince until the morning , we can continue with only minor alterations . ’ |
| 4 | The master is liable for wrongful acts and defaults of his servant — though they may be unauthorized or even forbidden by him — so long as they are done within the scope of the employment . |
| 5 | Wetland plants will be in their element , so long as they are given generous mulches to keep the moisture in . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman will have read and re-read circular 7/91 which contains the exceptions policy , allowing homes to be provided on sites not normally designated as residential so long as they are aimed at local people . |
| 7 | The House of Lords held that parental rights are recognised in law only for so long as they are needed for the protection of the child . |
| 8 | We do not object to women working the keyboards , so long as they are paid the same wages as men . |
| 9 | His view is that consumers should be told the whole truth : ‘ If the public wants fish fingers made up of minced fish that 's OK , so long as they are told and can make up their own minds . |
| 10 | So long as we are dealing with materials which are approximately elastic and approximately homogeneous this is virtually the whole story as far as strength and brittleness are concerned . |
| 11 | Learning is a ‘ free commodity ’ , but only so long as we are thinking of knowledge as a source of intrinsic , expressive rewards . |
| 12 | So long as we 're talking about sort of half a mile away ma maximum or with other sort of proper travelling arrangements . |
| 13 | So long as yu are living yu deserve a piece |
| 14 | ‘ Not so long as I am working for you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The position does not matter to me so long as I am playing . |
| 16 | I only have to take a moment to get my eyes strong and then I can push it out , this strongness , at anything at all so long as I am staring at it hard enough … |
| 17 | ‘ That 's the spirit , my darling , ’ he had said , ‘ so long as you are prepared for storms … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ So long as you 're becoming comfortable among us . ’ |
| 19 | I hope that in so far as we are achieving a consensus on care in the community , there is a general recognition that it will cost more and use more resources . |
| 20 | It is perhaps fortunate from our point of view that we can pin ourselves , in so far as we are talking about an inset , to the actual deposit copy of Ryedale District Council , when they did get the matter right , but no body apart from them , sir , did so . |
| 21 | I have the strategy in front on me but I it also the strategy also places the economy of the county in in that context in so far as we 're dealing with er the county of North Yorkshire is reliant upon some twenty five thousand small businesses employing twenty five people or less and has only forty one firms serving one local market employing over three hundred people . |
| 22 | I do n't think that er , I think that unfortunately some of the older doctors definitely were misinformed and were n't educated and I think nowadays that the doctors are becoming very much more educated and perhaps the ones who have the bad time are the fortunate ones in so far as they 're getting the hormone replacement therapy if they 're lucky and they have sympathetic general practitioner . |
| 23 | Polar adaptations of a few species , so far as they are recognized , are discussed in Chapter 6 . |
| 24 | Secondly , it is arguable that most other theories , e.g. those based on semantic components , can be subsumed within it , in so far as they are built on consistent and logical lines . |
| 25 | The smaller nations get short shrift on somewhat different grounds : in so far as they are affected by general trends , their history recapitulates that of the major states . |
| 26 | In so far as they are based upon analogy with the position of courts of law which are not under any such general duty , this reasoning is being undermined as the judiciary increasingly require some statement of reasons within judgments . |
| 27 | There are of course many aspects of language usage that depend on these relations ( see e.g. Brown & Levinson , 1978 , 1979 ) , but these usages are only relevant to the topic of social deixis in so far as they are grammaticalized Obvious examples of such grammaticalizations are " polite " pronouns and titles of address , but there are many other manifestations of social deixis ( see Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 183-92 , 281-5 ; Levinson , 1977 , 1979b ) . |
| 28 | As such it certainly extends to local — and , as I think , also statutory bodies in so far as they are exercising autonomous rule . |
| 29 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 30 | From inside that belief system the responses that are made to overload and pressure will seem , in so far as they are considered consciously , to be sensible , vital or even inevitable . |