Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temperature requirements are not too critical either , so long as they fall somewhere in the range of 20–28°C . |
| 2 | Two people lingered , fingering the scarves , and she put her head down , feigning ignorance , or ineptitude , or just plain stupidity — whatever , so long as they went away without asking her the price of anything ! |
| 3 | Only later was this amended to allow the return of Yugoslavs home so long as they went willingly . |
| 4 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 5 | It is , however , often claimed that there is a qualified obligation to obey the law , based on the authority of governments in just regimes , for so long as they remain just . |
| 6 | LORD WRIGHT : I think the jury should be directed by the judge that the respondent Association had a legal right to put the person 's name on the stop list , so long as they did so in order to promote the trade interests of the Association and its members and not with intent to injure , and so long as the money , fine or penalty demanded was reasonable and not extortionate . |
| 7 | However , even if things go badly , so long as we survive as partly rational creatures we should always be able to find some satisfaction in understanding our situation and doing what reason points to as the most effective way of dealing with it . |
| 8 | But it does not invalidate the argument of the last paragraph : so long as we judge there to be a need for government and common policies , democratic principle will require that minorities have to accept majority decisions to which they are opposed . |
| 9 | Ninez saw no reason to complain or criticise so long as we marched fast enough . |
| 10 | It does not really matter so long as we accept both points of view . |
| 11 | So long as he did so , his leadership was not under challenge . |
| 12 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it followed consistently . |
| 13 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it followed consistently . |
| 14 | I 'm willing therefore to call it ‘ A Lakeland Circuit ’ , so long as it remains merely ‘ a ’ circuit and does not become ‘ the ’ circuit . |
| 15 | His head was cut off , buried on Tower Hill facing France in the belief that so long as it remained there , Britain would be safe from invasion . |
| 16 | The Government has stated that , as well as continuing cover on non-vested markets for NCM , it will provide reinsurance for those contracts which are deemed to be in the ‘ national interest ’ for as long as the Government considers its existence essential to meet the reasonable needs of exporters and so long as it performs satisfactorily as a trading facility . |
| 17 | ‘ You wo n't lose control so long as you retain over fifty per cent of the shares , ’ Adam reassured her . |
| 18 | It hardly matters what you are angry about , so long as you convey clearly the message that you are on the point of a serious psychotic meltdown and anyone getting in your way is liable to be no more than a bag of pimply skin and bone shards lying in a pool of blood within seconds . |
| 19 | BEATRIX : You ca n't , so long as you remain as pig-headed as you have been all your life . |
| 20 | And if you get an itch , you can scratch it , so long as you do so badger-style : five to six rapid scratches per second . |
| 21 | As she raised a hand to wipe them away she noticed how deeply the dirt had eaten into her fingernails , so that they were not , and so long as she worked never would be , pink and sweet and shell-like . |
| 22 | Whatever the law might hold , no one could argue that the methods used by Esmail and Everington amounted to fraud , in so far as they had neither the intention nor the potential to gain an advantage . |
| 23 | Although we can not honestly say that those who unsuccessfully oppose a particular decision or policy consent to that decision or policy when it is carried out despite their opposition , we can say that they are nevertheless bound by that decision in so far as they accept both the principle of majority decisions and the fairness of the procedures through which the decision is reached or the policy made . |
| 24 | In order to promote these purposes the Secretary of State , normally on the advice of the Health and Safety Commission , has power to make ‘ health and safety regulations ’ which will give rise to civil liability except in so far as they provide otherwise . |
| 25 | Of the three gradation schemes under discussion , the Canadian is the simplest in so far as it creates only three degrees of offence . |
| 26 | To the Sufi the divine is in all things and manifested to the seer , and it is this divine attribute that he sees and which is transferred to the work of the poet and the mystic ; and that work is authentic in so far as it depicts faithfully the himma or emotional part of the event . |
| 27 | In so far as it comments extensively on his main life work , usually but not always positively , it seems more appropriate that his contribution , while fully acknowledged , should be classified as ‘ informal ’ . |
| 28 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |