Example sentences of "so [adv] as we [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is fine so long as we recognize how little we genuinely know about education , and how cautious therefore must be the -claims that we are able to make . |
| 2 | However , even if things go badly , so long as we survive as partly rational creatures we should always be able to find some satisfaction in understanding our situation and doing what reason points to as the most effective way of dealing with it . |
| 3 | But it does not invalidate the argument of the last paragraph : so long as we judge there to be a need for government and common policies , democratic principle will require that minorities have to accept majority decisions to which they are opposed . |
| 4 | He believed as Lionel Curtis did that Indians ' souls had to be renovated before they were fit to govern : he deeply shocked the American journalist William Shirer by announcing that ‘ Self-government … is inconceivable and unattainable without the removal of untouchability , as it also is without Hindu-Moslem unity … we shall be unfit to gain independence so long as we keep in bondage a fifth of the population of Hindustan . ’ |
| 5 | Ninez saw no reason to complain or criticise so long as we marched fast enough . |
| 6 | Of course this reduces our heating bills and keeps us warm and comfortable … so long as we do n't create too much moisture for the air to cope with . |
| 7 | So long as we do n't confuse faction with history , perhaps we should n't agonise too much over such matters . |
| 8 | He can be world champion for the next three years , so long as we do n't have to do it at Bradford because that 's an awful track . |
| 9 | ’ I can navigate on planetary speed without them , ’ Posi said , ’ so long as we do not lose others . ’ |
| 10 | At first it was men who were not allowed into the house and although this position resulted in a lot of criticism and ridicule , most feminists had some sympathy so long as we did n't seriously advocate separatism for all women . |
| 11 | It does not really matter so long as we accept both points of view . |