Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pers pn] [was/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 | But Fritz was n't too perturbed what his rooms were used for — so long as he was paid , and many factions and organizations , both political and criminal , operating in London used the Warehouse Hotel , as it was called , for their meetings . |
| 5 | But he said , thoughtfully , that he believed the Robemaker would weave anything so long as he was paid sufficiently highly . |
| 6 | But — so long as it was made clear that this was a genuine option , and entirely voluntary — we are in favour of lenders in this country at least recommending insurance and pointing out its advantages . |
| 7 | The commodity might have been hides , jade , tobacco , salt or precious metals , so long as it was accepted as a means of discharging obligations . |
| 8 | He agreed to do homage so long as it was spelt out that Aquitaine should belong to him and his heirs for ever . |
| 9 | So long as I was looking for someone who might want to murder Michael Banks , I was getting nowhere . |
| 10 | Bread never went mouldy in Algeria , which meant that so long as I was prepared for a good chew , I could always buy enough to last to the next village . |
| 11 | No harm in picking up the extra dough , so long as I was doing my client 's work at the same time . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In so far as they were looking forward , it was with a much more gradual pace of development in mind . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But the anti-clerical and anti-hierarchical sentiments , unless they undermined the faith and declared doctrine ( so far as it was understood ) , were not in themselves heretical . |
| 17 | His mission , in so far as it was to reconcile the Nationalists and Communists , was a failure and indeed could hardly have been expected to be otherwise . |
| 18 | In 1911 Law was known — in so far as he was known at all in the parliamentary party — as a spirited debater . |