Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why should it matter to you so much whether he sells or not ? |
| 2 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family , so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from , then usually the Parish Registers and things like the Census Returns over the last hundred years are usually able to help them . |
| 3 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got some , something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from . |
| 4 | Nor does the fact that , so long as they consider that the affairs of the business they own are being conducted well enough on their behalf , owners do not choose to exercise their ultimate authority , provide any reason for supposing either that companies would be better managed if trade unions were implicated in management or that owners would acquiesce in the assumption , in whole or in part , of their rights by any other party — let alone by one whose essential interests are often opposed to their own . |
| 5 | So long as they understand that there 's this also the erm you know er said to me , Oh it 's just English sort of said differently . |
| 6 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 7 | So long as they understand or we have communicated to them , why we want them to do that . |
| 8 | For the social sciences have more to gain from each other than they have to lose , and the precise origin and pedigree of new findings and theories is of little importance so long as they extend and expand our understanding of the world . |
| 9 | Nor do they even care very much about their state of liquidity , so long as they think that they can force the banks to bail them out . |
| 10 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 11 | In analysing this argument , Hirschi ( 1973 , p. 171 ) concludes that ‘ Sociology will suffer … so long as we believe that our assumptions guarantee truth , while their assumptions guarantee error , whatever the facts may be ’ . |
| 12 | The class can take on the role of any group of people unified by a common concern or problem , so long as we ensure that every child has an active role to play . |
| 13 | So long as we think that good must be identical with some one natural property we can not but suppose that all good things have some such property in common . |
| 14 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 15 | He will never be content , so long as he knows that he is in our debt . ’ |
| 16 | So long as he remembers that , when mounting a picket in his opponents ' penalty area , he is only allowed a maximum of six operatives on the line , he should be able to enjoy free and frank access to the other side 's position . |
| 17 | I explained that the meeting could elect anything it wished so long as it understood that the ‘ original organisers , … would make up their own minds what status , if any , to accord those elected . |
| 18 | If an Act of Parliament has been obtained improperly , it is for the legislature to correct it by repealing it : but , so long as it exists as law , the courts are bound to obey it . |
| 19 | So like when I said that she knew that I was teasing her when I said in , in that tone of voice . |
| 20 | I hope it will be agreed that those who think that the tax law is justified do so partly because they believe that there is in the circumstances imagined a reason voluntarily to contribute a sum which is equivalent to a just tax . |
| 21 | He was jealous of Florian , she accepted , but she could take little comfort or encouragement from the knowledge , except in so far as it meant that he was n't ready to put an end to their affair quite yet . |
| 22 | Indeed , the passage in Megarry on The Rent Acts , at pp. 386–387 is wrong , in so far as it suggests that there may be a right in a landlord to re-enter peaceably , in the circumstances of this sort of case , between an order for possession and execution of the order by the bailiff . |
| 23 | This is true , of course , in so far as it means that no contemporary authors were going to write stories about a single murderer being exposed when lawlessness was rife and human life generally seen as of little account . |
| 24 | One last matter please erm , so far as I understand that you 've not yet drafted the separate staff requirement for reconnaissance , I beg you pardon , reconnaissance equipment for Eurofighter two thousand . |
| 25 | He also maintained his interest in collective consumption in so far as he argued that a successful urban social movement must articulate a demand for that kind of state-provided facility . |
| 26 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
| 27 | So even if he believed that from an economic point of view the best decision would be to deny any recovery for emotional injury , he would still ask whether the role of law in encouraging reliance and coordination would be much damaged if he ignored the precedents , and , if it would , whether this loss would be made up in the gains he foresees from the change . |
| 28 | The next time you need to backup the directory you copy it into \WORK\WORK\WORK and so on until you feel that it is time to start the backup off from the start again . |
| 29 | We write this so fully because we need and should value any guidance you can send us . |
| 30 | And yet , why had his manner changed so abruptly when he learned that the girl whose hat he had rescued was going to live at Sunset Cottage ? |