Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [art] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inn many cases this is what they get , However this is not consolation to the user who , having been misinformed by an out of date roadside timetable , spends , say , fifteen minutes at a windswept bus stop , in pouring rain , awaiting a bus that is less than clean , being driven so badly that the ride is uncomfortable by a brusque and unhelpful driver . ’ |
| 2 | When on 5 September the Lords Lieutenant of the four most northerly counties were ordered to make their respective militias ready for immediate service , it emerged that neither Northumberland nor Durham had been reimbursed by central government for the money they had previously spent in keeping the force mustered , while the authorities in Cumberland admitted candidly : ‘ T is so long since the militia was raised that we are apprehensive the arms are either lost or in bad order . ’ |
| 3 | Lear is now experiencing the truth of La Rochefoucauld 's maxim that ‘ So long as a man is still in a position to help others he will rarely encounter ingratitude . ’ |
| 4 | Those days have gone only so long as a Government are in power who are determined to continue a regime of common sense and reasonable and balanced industrial relations . |
| 5 | The justification supposes that so long as a person is possessed of a right , that right may be exercised regardless of the consequences for others . |
| 6 | So long as a fissure is known to exist between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor about the ERM , the task of convincing the financial markets that policy is in safe hands will be made infinitely more difficult . |
| 7 | Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field . |
| 8 | Therefore , only so long as a woman is in labour shall he give up Israel ; and then those that survive of his race shall rejoin their brethren . |
| 9 | So long as no food 's going in , our soldiers do n't mind allowing an extra mouth or two into the city . |
| 10 | So long as an account 's written down somewhere , no one 's going to fuss about the details . |
| 11 | ‘ Theoretically , yes , but that 's unlikely to happen so long as the company is successful and the shareholders approve of the way it 's run . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ So long as the things being moved and shaken show no ripples … |
| 13 | So long as the army is loyal , the regime will survive . |
| 14 | The units are expendable and can easily be replaced so long as the tree is healthy . |
| 15 | In all the provisions there are exception clauses : an obligation can be revoked or modified only with consent ‘ unless it is established they had otherwise agreed ’ ; assent shall be presumed ‘ so long as the contrary is not indicated ’ ; a right may not be revoked or modified ‘ if it is established that the right was intended not to be revocable ’ . |
| 16 | He may have said that there will be no increase in German rates before Maastricht — indeed , hopefully , so long as the treaty is signed , not before our general election . |
| 17 | If you want to keep Pimelodus pictus with small fish , you might find you can get away with it in a densely planted tank , so long as the Pims are getting plenty of other food to eat . |
| 18 | Microwaves are refracted by plasma , and microwave interferometers can measure average electron densities , so long as the density is in a suitable range . |
| 19 | It is provided , however , that if a person has a right to place animals on unfenced land , he is not to be regarded as in breach of a duty of care by reason only of his placing them there , so long as the land is in an area where fencing is not customary or is common land or a town or village green . |
| 20 | The former is a stable product and file transfers work perfectly so long as the user is n't too feature hungry . |
| 21 | However , so long as the figures are seen as illustrations of typical developments and not as a catalogue of all possible types of flow , this may not matter much . |
| 22 | He is allowed to pick his successor on the board so long as the person is ‘ reasonably acceptable ’ to the other directors . |
| 23 | He 's allows to pick his successor on the board so long as the person is ‘ reasonably acceptable ’ to the other directors . |
| 24 | In other words , so long as the campaign was in effect a referendum on the Government 's performance , Labour won . |
| 25 | So long as the reversion is not assigned , that will be the position . |
| 26 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 27 | Hence the section 186 applies so long as the certificate is authenticated as executed by the company by the use of the common seal , the official seal or signatures of two directors or one director and the secretary ( or , in the case of Scottish companies , under the still wider provisions of section 36B ) . |
| 28 | The fault element in section 20 has been further broadened by the decision in Mowatt ( 1968 ) : there is no need to prove recklessness as to wounding or grievous bodily harm , so long as the court is satisfied that D was reckless as to some physical harm to some person , albeit of a minor character . |
| 29 | Now erm well let , let me start again people think okay , if the Conservatives win , win control alright it might be another fifty pence on night class at the er at the , the college you know , something something like that erm it might mean erm a few redundancies in the town hall and a greater level of privatization but s but people tend to think well so what so long as the bins are getting emptied . |
| 30 | So long as the boy was alive and had a chance of survival he was as much entitled to retain that chance as the others ; whereas in our problem it may be that the men who are cut away have no chance of survival at all . |