Example sentences of "so [adv] as [adj] [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so long as all citizens stand a good chance of being among the majority on at least some of the major and significant issues , most if not all will be content to accept the majority principle . |
| 2 | So long as other leaders do not follow Dubček 's example , Moscow can be confident of dealing with known quantities in its client states and of possessing means to manipulate factional rivalries to its own advantage . |
| 3 | ( e ) Staff Two particular matters , in the nature of carrot and stick , may conveniently be mentioned here as being important for the partners to determine as a matter of firm policy : ( 1 ) r7 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 permits solicitors to share their profits with their bona fide employees so long as such arrangements do not conceal an effective partnership . |
| 4 | Hence there is likely thereafter to be some saving of paper in future years so long as most members do not also demand copies of the full accounts under section 239 . |
| 5 | The consensus will last only so long as most lawyers accept the convictions that support it . |
| 6 | American officials generously agree that there is nothing wrong with government schemes to spend money on PCs , so long as foreign firms have a fair chance to bid for orders . |
| 7 | In so far as such doctrines owe anything to economic theory , it is to that body of theorising now encompassed within the term ‘ public choice theory ’ , and particularly to economic models of bureaucracy . |
| 8 | ‘ An inquisition … ( b ) shall set out , so far as such particulars have been proved — ( i ) who the deceased was ; and ( ii ) how , when and where the deceased came by his death … |
| 9 | In so far as modern historians have tried to explain it , it is simply as a continuation of the war of 1173 This however , it was not . |
| 10 | So far as English lawyers have theorized about the nature of corporate personality at all , they at one time for the most part accepted the doctrine of the Canon Law , that such personality is a mere fiction of the law with no basis in fact . |
| 11 | But so far as natural substances go we are all gazing countrymen . |
| 12 | The concept of risk has been recognized as important in so far as older people have been defined as dependent or vulnerable ( Stevenson , 1989 ) but there has been little systematic analysis of risk , risk-tolerance and risk-management in relation to older people ( for a discussion of issues , see Norman , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | But the effect left in the mind by this UK and USA reservation is unfortunate : it suggests , rightly or wrongly , that these nuclear powers are prepared to support the most elaborate codification limiting the use of conventional force , but at the same time want to keep their hands completely free so far as nuclear weapons use is concerned . |
| 14 | In so far as top businessmen play a decisive role in company strategy — as distinct from its public presentation — the talents they need will vary from one situation to another . |
| 15 | The Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 largely prevent these abuses , but it is true that , in so far as those Acts allow them to , finance companies still insist on the terms being as beneficial to themselves as possible . |
| 16 | Well these things may er describe erm sexual behaviour and how to facilitate it , but they ca n't explain it and nor are they really fundamental , because after all okay in mammals males may be the sex defined by the X chromosome , but in birds it 's the other way round in birds it 's the female chromosome and all , in other words , all bird embryos start , start out as male and differentiate into females if they 're going to , whereas in mammals all embryos start out as female and differentiate into males , in so far as those terms have any sense . |
| 17 | In so far as these people share the interests of and are engaged in the practices of the global capitalist system they are members of the transnational capitalist class . |
| 18 | Genetics and biology have little to tell us that is relevant , except in so far as these sciences throw light on human nature in general . |
| 19 | The karate bout has some similarities with a boxing match in so far as both contestants move around the ring exchanging blows . |
| 20 | Those consequences can be avoided ( and Community law respected ) in so far as national courts interpret national legislation so as to comply with the terms of the directive in question . |