Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do n't care whether I stand on the side of a screen or front stage so long as they can see me , hear me , Karl Gesner . |
| 2 | So long as they can sell , AEs will never have to pass the exam . |
| 3 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 4 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 5 | So but we 're we 're very easy with things , we do n't erm we do n't jump up and down and get cross erm so long as we can get some . |
| 6 | So long as we can get it , that 's all I 'm bothered about . |
| 7 | These should , on the face of things , be the most reliable sources , so long as we can trust the writer . |
| 8 | So long as he can block Labour , his own party will stick together . |
| 9 | the Crown is not bound to take the advice of a particular Ministry to put its subjects to the tumult and turmoil of a series of general elections so long as it can find other Ministers who are prepared to give it a trial . |
| 10 | ‘ Just so long as I can do something — no matter what — I wo n't feel so helpless . ’ |
| 11 | I do not mind being told what I can not do , so long as I can accede to an adequate reason why . |
| 12 | I do n't know , but so long as I can cure the disease I do n't much care ! |
| 13 | There 's a bleak line in the book when , his parents divorcing , his father leaving for Europe , Rock quotes himself , aged 11 , saying ‘ I 'll be OK , Dad , I wo n't need Mom so long as I can have the limo . ’ |
| 14 | Just so long as I can see you . ’ |
| 15 | He beamed at them again and Caspar was beginning to relax , because it seemed as if they might escape after all and Fenella was remembering about magic being very nearly everyday here , when Pumlumon said , ‘ Of course , that 's so long as I can remember the words . ’ |
| 16 | For so long as I can recall I have always had kennels and an assortment of dogs to help me in my work . |
| 17 | I have nothing against thorns and prickles so long as you can admire them from a safe distance . |
| 18 | You can uncover many things in this way , so long as you can hold your nerve when the technique is put into reverse and used against yourself . |
| 19 | Live yoghurt applied vaginally can often bring considerable relief from the itching , so long as you can contain the mess ! |
| 20 | You do n't have to worry too much about money do you really so long as you can manage with it . |
| 21 | I think so long as you can keep the parts of the structure there |
| 22 | It is trivially easy to select for a particular genetic formula , so long as you can read the genes of all the animals . |
| 23 | Studying the semantic features of texts is inevitably rather an intuitive business , and in so far as we can quantify such features at all , it often seems best to attach them to grammatical labels ( eg " colour adjectives " , " adverbials of place " ) , and to use some arbitrary standard of measurement , such as number of words . |
| 24 | So far as we can tell , the men-folk ruled in every sphere ; but it may be that the further one got from the world of high feudalism the less of a slave the woman became ; it is certainly true , in a rather different way , that the Norman Conquest brought both a more complete feudalism and a fall in the status of women . |
| 25 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 26 | The English fyrd was used in the Danish wars , but only later , so far as we can tell , as a local militia in emergencies . |
| 27 | He was not , so far as we can tell , putting forward the idea as a serious theory : his purpose was to tell a good story . |
| 28 | The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances . |
| 29 | Who ( or what sort of audience ) must the implied addressee(s) be , so far as we can tell from the passage itself ? |
| 30 | On the eve of the crisis , most politicians , political commentators and — so far as we can tell — citizens remained sceptical that the sixty-seven year old General would ever play a major role in politics again . |