Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pron] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In the sonnet just quoted , for instance , Shakespeare presents the Poet in a humiliating situation , indifferent to the behaviour of the Mistress with other men just so long as he gets some share of the action . |
2 | Should he go too far , the only repercussion , so long as he remains powerful , is for some of the village members to leave the village . |
3 | 10.7.10 The rights and licences hereby granted or agreed to be granted to a Non-academic Party pursuant to Clauses 10.7.2 b to 10.7.6 shall be exercisable on identical terms by any Related company of that Party for so long as it remains such , subject to the obtaining from such companies of suitable undertakings as to confidence and delivery up . |
4 | 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home . |
5 | An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem . |
6 | In so far as it remains possible to approach the problem as a matter of principle , the law should be that , if a person is acting in a way that is independently lawful , his conduct should not become unlawful merely because he fails to obey the instructions of a policeman . |
7 | In this chapter we have only really attended to the negative , critical , edge of left theory in so far as it challenges rival perspectives on parties and pressures . |
8 | Decisive victory for either side : that is what Turkish policy , in so far as it has any power , has been striving to prevent . |
9 | This request gives rise to an action for the coheirs to obtain Titius ’ share of the estate in so far as it exceeds that sum . |
10 | The final outcome of the stages of development outlined by Piaget is also utopian , in so far as he links formal operational thought with the structure of the ‘ real ’ world . |