Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 2 | So long as they believed in themselves they could make shift with constitutions and parliaments and dull republics . |
| 3 | That way everyone born after that particular time would have their sins forgiven so long as they believed in Jesus . |
| 4 | So long as we looked upon the production of value and the value of the product of capital individually , the bodily form of the commodities produced was wholly immaterial for the analysis , whether it was machines , for instance , corn , or looking glasses . |
| 5 | In the event it was 1928 before they finally left the course on loan to a Mr. Parsons so long as he looked after them . |
| 6 | Wright — so long as he remained in exile — could write what he liked . |
| 7 | He knew he was safe so long as he remained in the kitchen . |
| 8 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on the plain words of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Rent Act 1977 a statutory tenant enjoyed that status so long as he remained in occupation of the dwelling house as his residence , and , therefore , the defendant had remained a statutory tenant after the possession order had been made ; that since she was neither a statutorily protected nor an excluded tenant within the meaning of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she was entitled to the protection of section 3 of that Act and could not lawfully be removed from the premises until the possession order had been executed in accordance with rules of court ; that since the only method of enforcement provided by the County Court Rules 1981 was by execution of a possession warrant in accordance with Ord. 26 , r. 17 , the plaintiff was not entitled to re-enter by other means ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Act of 1988 ( post , pp. 879B , 881D–E , G–H , 882A–B , B–C , 883C–E ) . |
| 9 | He believed that so long as he remained in the Government the Press attacks would continue and that his supposedly malevolent influence would be blamed for every failure . |
| 10 | The tsar had been enthusiastic about change so long as he remained in the orbit of Elena Pavlovna , but in St Petersburg his convictions or his courage deserted him . |
| 11 | It explained everything , though she fought it , fought the nightmare truth of her growing feelings for him , her respect , her admiration , her jealousy , her pain , her longing to make him feel something for her , anything , so long as it came from the heart and not the body … |
| 12 | The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change . |
| 13 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 14 | So long as I stuck to squawks and Pretty fucking Polly , I was fine ? |
| 15 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 16 | On the drive back to London , Quinn was silent as Sam told him the outcome of her trip to Washington and the decision of the White House to let him have his head so long as she went with him . |
| 17 | So long as she looked after the child , she would be entitled to £1 a week . |
| 18 | As for Selene , she was left a hundred pounds a year so long as she continued under her sister 's direction . |
| 19 | Thereafter , she became a statutory tenant under section 2(1) ( a ) , and giving the words of that subsection their natural meaning , it would appear that she was by the Act to remain a statutory tenant so long as she continued in occupation of the dwelling-house . |
| 20 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation , and I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation — in the bottom streams in particular — who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school . |
| 21 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 22 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 23 | Such women may have been rather running businesses than producing goods in so far as they relied on journeymen . |
| 24 | To them enlightened rule , in so far as they thought in terms of it at all , meant simply effective solutions to immediate problems . |
| 25 | Treaty in so far as they applied to all owners , charterers , managers and operators of British fishing vessels and to 75 per cent . |
| 26 | Statutory advisers from the conservation bodies all gave us a list of the areas that they wanted included and , for the most part , we followed those lists in so far as they agreed with one another . |
| 27 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 28 | The debate over the respective roles of nuclear and conventional arms was inevitably bound up with questions of authority and influence within Nato , especially in so far as they related to the possible use of nuclear weapons , and to their proliferation within the alliance . |
| 29 | For example , in 1967 the Monopolies Commission investigated the general effect on the public interest of certain restrictive practices so far as they prevailed in relation to the supply of professional services . |
| 30 | Their outsides remained functional ; it was only their insides , in so far as they belonged to the bourgeois world like the newly devised Pullman sleeping-cars ( 1865 ) and the first-class steamer saloons and state-rooms , which had décor . |