Example sentences of "so [adv] as it [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Dansey did not seek to influence its policy , so long as it kept out of his agents ' way . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | It matters not how strong the persuasion was , so long as it did not overbear the independence of the patient 's decision . |
8 | In so far as it reached out beyond the rather eccentric sect of the Comtist ‘ Religion of Humanity ’ , positivism became little more than a philosophical justification of the conventional method of the experimental sciences , and similarly for most contemporaries Mill was , again in the words of Taine , the man who had opened up ‘ the good old road of induction and experiment ’ . |