Example sentences of "so [adv] as we [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ So long as we get him out ’ — Cameron was still cagey . |
2 | So so long as we get something . |
3 | So long as we boil it , it should be OK . |
4 | This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) . |
5 | She liked us to keep to our promise , but quite understood if the children were ill , or something else cropped up , and we got behind — so long as we let her know immediately . |
6 | President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine denied Tory MPs were looking for a new leader , saying : ‘ We know that so long as we keep our nerve and pursue policies that are important we can come through . |
7 | So long as we learn something from every mistake we make , time has n't been wasted . |
8 | ‘ The game against Marseille will now be a battle but so long as we have someone like Andy Goram behind us , we feel solid . |
9 | So far as we know they had met only in 1079 , when Eadmer was one of the young monks to whom Anselm talked during his first visit to Canterbury . |
10 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
11 | So far as we know there 's been no suspicion of foul play . ’ |