Example sentences of "so [adv] as it [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So long as it stays like that . ’ |
| 2 | So long as it remains within 8″ of its regiment during the game , the detachment may take any leadership-based tests on the leadership value of the parent regiment , including any bonuses that apply for standards , magic items , and so forth . |
| 3 | So long as it remains in this room , he wrote , it is not finished . |
| 4 | Hence section 252 provides that a private company ( whether or not small or medium-sized ) may elect ( by elective resolution in accordance with section 379A ) to dispense with the laying of accounts , and this dispensation applies in respect of the financial year in which the election is made and to subsequent financial years so long as it remains in force . |
| 5 | And whether they 're coming or not , that city is going to hold out to starvation point and beyond , so long as it believes in a rescue . ’ |
| 6 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 7 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Heightened expectation on the part of supporters is understandable and tolerable so long as it comes with a sense of realism . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) A covenant by the lessee for the repair of the premises is of no effect so far as it relates to the matters mentioned in subsection ( l ) ( a ) to ( c ) , except so far as it imposes on the lessee any of the requirements mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) ( a ) or ( c ) . |
| 10 | because the verderers … and … the Steward of the Forest made no mention in their rolls of the name of the said page , nor of his delivery , nor of his escape , and the business of the King so far as it relates to the said boy is entirely undone , therefore they are in mercy . |
| 11 | The epitaph upon the old Forest system was finally written in the Wild Creatures and Forest Laws Act of 1971 , which abolished the sovereign 's prerogative right to wild creatures ( except royal fish and swans ) , and abrogated the Forest law , except in so far as it relates to the appointment and functions of verderers . |
| 12 | It therefore follows , in our judgment , that although this has gone unnoticed for 119 years , the jurisdiction of the judges as visitors , in so far as it relates to questions as to the fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , is a jurisdiction which in 1873 was vested in the judges of the three common law courts , sitting elsewhere than in court or chambers , when acting as judges , in pursuance of custom . |
| 13 | By Schedule 1 , paragraph 1(c) of the Act , the provisions contained in sections 2 to 4 do not extend to any contract : so far as it relates to the creation or transfer of any right or interest in any patent , trade mark , copyright , … or other intellectual property . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) A covenant by the lessee for the repair of the premises is of no effect so far as it relates to the matters mentioned in subsection ( l ) ( a ) to ( c ) , except so far as it imposes on the lessee any of the requirements mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) ( a ) or ( c ) . |
| 15 | In fact , another species of bee that communicates about food sources ( Apis florica ) does so in the same way except in so far as it wiggles in the horizontal rather than the vertical plane , and so can indicate directly the angle of the food source from the sun . |
| 16 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 17 | In that regard , the note in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 , p. 726 is correct , in so far as it states in relation to R.S.C. , Ord. 45 , r. 3 : |
| 18 | And it seems that the money , in so far as it emerges in budgets that clearly , is determined by crude political muscle and nothing to do with reason and analysis — all the things that you stood for in the sixties and seventies . |
| 19 | However , this makes no difference to what has been stated above , since the judgment in the Brugnoni case is based , as the Commission points out , on the general objective of the First Directive in so far as it applies to transactions with the Directive liberalised , and it is clear from Commission of the European Communities v. Hellenic Republic ( Case 194/84 ) [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4737 , 4750 , para. 9 , that capital movements set out in list A also benefit from ‘ unconditional liberalisation . ’ |
| 20 | In so far as it applies to Arabic , for instance , it suggests that an ego-centred pattern which is perfectly feasible and natural in English has to be replaced in most contexts by a process-centred pattern which is far more typical of Arabic . |
| 21 | But so long as the distinction remains , disaffection in so far as it appeals to existing principles of legitimacy , can be both conservative and loyal . |
| 22 | There are the careerists amongst the senior management of the school , some of whom will seem to have ‘ sold out to the system ’ : to affect a philosophy in so far as it looks in their own interests to do so , to have become executives and to have lost touch with the pupils . |
| 23 | Often they are questions on which the hierarchy of the family ( in so far as it exists in Britain ) has to be consulted . |
| 24 | Thus , for example , in the case of such a social group as a ball team , the team is the generalized other in so far as it enters as an organized process or social activity — into the experience of any one of the individual members of it . |