Example sentences of "so [adv] as [noun sg] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the prosecution fails to establish intention , the offence will be reduced to the lower category , to be considered in section 8.3 ( c ) below , so long as recklessness is proved . |
| 2 | Since money is seen as one component of total wealth , we can expect the demand for money to be directly related to total wealth so long as money is regarded as a ‘ normal good ’ by wealth-holders. ( b ) Rates of return on financial assets ( R ) . |
| 3 | The demand for money will be directly related to total wealth ( which is the sum of human and non-human wealth ) so long as money is regarded as a ‘ normal good ’ by wealth holders . |
| 4 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 5 | This , however , was impossible so long as descent was reckoned according to mother right . |
| 6 | This was impossible , Engels tells us , so long as descent was reckoned in the female line , because he believed inheritance and group membership always went hand in hand . |
| 7 | So long as balance is defined in terms of the quantity of party coverage — and not whether it is favourable or unfavourable — then the only justification for awarding the government extra coverage is that the government represents order , stability , and legitimate authority , which the media has a duty to support . |
| 8 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
| 9 | So long as production is carried on in units of production which have a degree of real economic autonomy and ‘ employ ’ distinct groups of workers ( despite their general interdependence in terms of input/output relations ) there will exist real grounds for conflict between particular groups of workers and the ‘ social interest ’ , however democratically the latter is generated . |
| 10 | Again we see Bukharin arguing that a violation of fundamental equilibrium is avoidable , so long as proportionality is used as a guide around which the plan would oscillate . |
| 11 | In so far as fairness is used within the traditional adjudicative framework the balancing involved therein may be different in degree but not in kind to that which has always gone on within natural justice itself . |
| 12 | Broadly , we must agree that in so far as education is failing , it is in its failure to provide some children , too many , with the means to lead a satisfactory life when they leave school . |
| 13 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 14 | In so far as society is divided into different interests , of which labour and capital are the prototypical examples , it may well be that some interests have more control than others over the development of representations which accord to their perspective and thus their interests . |
| 15 | In so far as economics is offered as a model of explanation , a theory of individual behaviour is likely to be a component of International Relations theories as much as of theories of microeconomics . |
| 16 | The bailor warrants that he has the right to transfer possession for the period of the bailment , and that the bailee will enjoy quiet possession for the period of the bailment except so far as possession is disturbed by the owner or other person entitled to the benefit of any charge or encumbrance disclosed or known to the bailee before the contract was made . |
| 17 | According to Bulpitt , ‘ in so far as monetarism was associated … with ‘ arms ' length ’ , anti-corporatist government , then … the statecraft ( of monetarism ) must be viewed as less a radical break with the past and more as an attempt to reconstruct it' . |
| 18 | Output at this level is optimal not only for the firm , but also for society , because the type and quantity of goods produced will match the demand for them , at least in so far as demand is represented by the willingness and ability of the consumer to pay . |
| 19 | In fact , in so far as religion was involved , the contrary was probably the case , as the ideas of the Reformation affected the nobles and the town dwellers more than the peasants . |
| 20 | Grammatology is the ‘ science ’ of writing in so far as writing is regarded as a generalized phenomenon , as archi-écriture . |
| 21 | In so far as attention was given to foreign affairs , there was a powerful inclination to test out the potential of the United Nations . |