Example sentences of "just [adv] [adv] as [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | We like to have kings to worship and admire : we love a bit of gold leaf to ooh and ah at : we do n't mind being poor just so long as there 's someone poorer than us . |
2 | Even now , gin with ice cold tonic is the spirit I 'd probably choose to take with me to a desert island just so long as there were plenty of lemon groves to hand on my castaway paradise . |
3 | Just so long as it 's not ‘ gall ’ , ’ Lily said . |
4 | Does n't make any difference just so long as it 's equivalent to two pints of lager . |
5 | Sport encompasses things like hunting , all sorts of hunting : fox , hare otter , camel or whatever , just so long as it is conducted with hounds . |
6 | ‘ Just so long as you 're not planning any physical attacks on me this evening … |
7 | Just so long as you are not intending to ask me not to leave London . |
8 | You did n't care if I was in any danger , just so long as I was suitably humbled ! ’ |
9 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
10 | I think he was crippled by his upbringing just as badly as he was by the car crash . |
11 | Printed with a new thermal chromatic invisible ink , the animals and trees actually disappear from the T-shirt when you get hot — just as quickly as they are disappearing from the wild , in fact ! |
12 | As a profession A&R is as precarious as politics , with reputations lost just as quickly as they 're won . |
13 | And he is convinced the temperamental Frenchman — bought for £1.2 million — will have to conform to manager Alex Ferguson 's regime or else he will be dispensed with just as quickly as he was at Leeds and his other clubs . |