Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] the [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A powerful Japan could work either for or against South Korea ; so long as the United States exercised a controlling influence over Japan , it would work for rather than against South Korea .
2 Akashi said that so long as the Khmers Rouges refused to disarm , a freeze was necessary to maintain the balance of power in the country .
3 In Fig. 22.6 , the large polygonal features are permanent structures ; that is to say , once the flow has been established the polygonal pattern remains unchanging so long as the Rayleigh number is maintained constant , although the details of just where the polygons locate themselves will be different each time the experiment is performed .
4 The sub-committee can simply decide to allocate eight of these to applicants for Theology and Development ( so long as the WCC Scholarship Unit in Geneva passes on sufficient applications ) .
5 The Secretary of State 's duty so far as the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge are concerned , is only to ‘ consult . ’
6 In so far as the Manchester Corporation case is inconsistent with the principle to which I have referred it is wrong and is not good law .
7 So far as the Rome Convention is concerned , I of course accept that it is legitimate and appropriate to take its provisions into account in construing article 5(1) : the Arcado case [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 1539 , 1555 , and see , also , Ivenel v. Schwab ( Case 133/81 ) [ 1982 ] E.C.R. 1891 , 1900 .
8 So far as the Galway schoolboy was concerned , he was not much preoccupied in future by the Sinn Fein enemy who had driven him out .
9 The 1936 Act was certainly effective so far as the United Kingdom was concerned .
10 Legally , it would seem that nothing less would do , so far as the United Kingdom is concerned .
11 Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned .
12 In so far as the United Kingdom might wish to argue that it itself has the right under the Convention to retain requirements such as those at issue , reference can also be made to the court 's judgment in Commission of the European Economic Community v. Italian Republic ( Case 10/61 ) [ 1962 ] E.C.R. 1 , from which it appears that according to the principles of international law , a member state which , by virtue of the entry into force of the E.E.C .
13 So far as the La Pintada case [ 1985 ] A.C. 104 is concerned , that case differs from the present in the following material respects : ( 1 ) In the La Pintada case the plaintiffs were seeking to establish an extension of the common law that would apply in parallel to the statutory provisions .
14 In so far as the Gulf war is concerned , the hon. Gentleman is referring to one of the most successful military operations ever undertaken by this country or any other .
15 No other genuine document exists , nor ( so far as the Canterbury monks could establish ) ever had existed , which granted the primacy to the whole succession of archbishops .
16 Now what were the limits so far as the Vietnam war was concerned ?
17 Now what were the limits so far as the Vietnam war was concerned ?
18 The effect of these regulations , so far as the Woolwich Building Society was concerned , was to subject it over a period of 24 months ( 6 April 1986 to 5 April 1988 ) to tax on 29 months of income , amounting to an excess of some £76m .
19 So even before the US occupation ended , the Japanese had learned that the form of the constitution did not totally determine the substance of its application .
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