Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pron] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 And so long as they were eating out …
2 So long as we are dealing with materials which are approximately elastic and approximately homogeneous this is virtually the whole story as far as strength and brittleness are concerned .
3 Learning is a ‘ free commodity ’ , but only so long as we are thinking of knowledge as a source of intrinsic , expressive rewards .
4 So long as we 're talking about sort of half a mile away ma maximum or with other sort of proper travelling arrangements .
5 Apart from the implications of this for prayers and strategy , it was a comforting thought — so long as one was winning .
6 So long as yu is living an yu want eat food
7 So long as yu are living yu deserve a piece
8 ‘ Not so long as I am working for you . ’
9 ‘ The position does not matter to me so long as I am playing .
10 I only have to take a moment to get my eyes strong and then I can push it out , this strongness , at anything at all so long as I am staring at it hard enough …
11 So long as I was looking for someone who might want to murder Michael Banks , I was getting nowhere .
12 No harm in picking up the extra dough , so long as I was doing my client 's work at the same time . ’
13 So long as you 're becoming comfortable among us . ’
14 So long as you know how far it is to the line , and so long as someone is calling out the time to the start , you just need to judge your speed correctly .
15 I hope that in so far as we are achieving a consensus on care in the community , there is a general recognition that it will cost more and use more resources .
16 It is perhaps fortunate from our point of view that we can pin ourselves , in so far as we are talking about an inset , to the actual deposit copy of Ryedale District Council , when they did get the matter right , but no body apart from them , sir , did so .
17 I have the strategy in front on me but I it also the strategy also places the economy of the county in in that context in so far as we 're dealing with er the county of North Yorkshire is reliant upon some twenty five thousand small businesses employing twenty five people or less and has only forty one firms serving one local market employing over three hundred people .
18 I do n't think that er , I think that unfortunately some of the older doctors definitely were misinformed and were n't educated and I think nowadays that the doctors are becoming very much more educated and perhaps the ones who have the bad time are the fortunate ones in so far as they 're getting the hormone replacement therapy if they 're lucky and they have sympathetic general practitioner .
19 As such it certainly extends to local — and , as I think , also statutory bodies in so far as they are exercising autonomous rule .
20 In so far as they were looking forward , it was with a much more gradual pace of development in mind .
21 In so far as I am using an expression , as distinct from attending to it , I am at home in it .
22 Nevertheless it seems to me that Gironella is right , or that he is right in so far as he is using ‘ mestizo ’ to claim for his work a Mexican , not a European identity .
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