Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pers pn] did not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 2 | Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him . |
| 3 | He could make concessions to his allies and all would be well so long as they did not come into conflict with one another . |
| 4 | To do otherwise would be to break the long-established political tradition of allowing people to hold whatever views they liked , so long as they did not break the law or urge others to do so . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , so long as they did not organise — and sometimes even when they did — the workers themselves provided their employers with a solution to the problem of labour management : by and large they liked to work , and their expectations were remarkably modest . |
| 6 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 7 | There could , indeed , be no two opinions as to the right of every one of the great national subdivisions of Europe to dispose of itself , independently of its neighbours in all internal matters , so long as it did not encroach upon the liberty of others . |
| 8 | It matters not how strong the persuasion was , so long as it did not overbear the independence of the patient 's decision . |
| 9 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 10 | He added that this order would leave it open to the Press to deal with the questions of principle so far as they did not apply them to the facts . |
| 11 | Secondly , the Rules were flawed in so far as they did not seem to anticipate the possibility of problems created by the piecemeal acquisition of bonds either by occasional buying out or by gift . |
| 12 | Such an attitude reflected the determination to decapitate the lower classes , in so far as they did not shed their potential leaders spontaneously by absorption into the lower middle class . |