Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] the [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Inn many cases this is what they get , However this is not consolation to the user who , having been misinformed by an out of date roadside timetable , spends , say , fifteen minutes at a windswept bus stop , in pouring rain , awaiting a bus that is less than clean , being driven so badly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 ‘ 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 . ’
4 So long as the things being moved and shaken show no ripples …
5 So long as the army is loyal , the regime will survive .
6 The units are expendable and can easily be replaced so long as the tree is healthy .
7 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 ’ .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Microwaves are refracted by plasma , and microwave interferometers can measure average electron densities , so long as the density is in a suitable range .
11 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 .
12 The former is a stable product and file transfers work perfectly so long as the user is n't too feature hungry .
13 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 .
14 He is allowed to pick his successor on the board so long as the person is ‘ reasonably acceptable ’ to the other directors .
15 He 's allows to pick his successor on the board so long as the person is ‘ reasonably acceptable ’ to the other directors .
16 In other words , so long as the campaign was in effect a referendum on the Government 's performance , Labour won .
17 So long as the reversion is not assigned , that will be the position .
18 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 . ’
19 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 ) .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 So long as the Americans are only afraid that we might land on this island , and do n't know we 're already here , they will pay no attention to our activities .
24 So long as the eddies are still relatively small compared with the length scale of the mean flow ( e.g. wake width ) , their features are adequately described by the considerations of Section 19.3 .
25 The NUWM , however , was under Communist control , and it was difficult to cooperate with it so long as the ILP was regarded as " Social Fascist " .
26 So long as the price is consistent with the current yield then nothing in relation to bank base rates need change .
27 But the danger is that if relief is too often refused on such grounds it may give decision-makers the signal that it does not really matter whether they act within the law or not , so long as the decision is ‘ right ’ .
28 If Chatterton chooses to flog , with the agreement of the committee , priceless port from the cellar , so long as the money is laundered through the entertainment account it allows him to be subsidised for a jaunt to Monte Carlo and no doubt Fishbane for nights of bliss with ladies from a call-girl agency . ’
29 Section 723 , ‘ Use of computers for company records ’ , permits recording ‘ otherwise than in a legible form , so long as the recording is capable of being reproduced in a legible form ’ .
30 Usually these breaks are not perpendicular but at an angle , and so long as the end is carefully flame-polished , minor irregularities in the line of the break do not matter .
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