Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sporting gentlemen of the pre-Victorian period saw no harm in making money through playing games so long as this was a matter of gambling ; nor did they mind mixing with others of a lower class , who derived the bulk of their income in this way , provided distinctions of birth were recognized and preserved . |
| 2 | He was driven into something ‘ like Berkleyanism ’ ; and he took to feeling that there was no harm in positing the existence of some form of Absolute Spirit , so long as this was firmly distinguished from the God ‘ of popular religion ’ . |
| 3 | So long as this is done where improving the outcome is more important than deciding for oneself this acceptance of authority , far from being either irrational or an abdication of moral responsibility , is in fact the most rational course and the right way to discharge one 's responsibilities . |
| 4 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
| 5 | And yet , so long as this land contains a politically-aware football manager , Mrs T will not be forgotten . |
| 6 | So long as this error can be minimised , a strong case exists for adopting a survey method in the UK . |
| 7 | Political connections were often the principal criterion suggested to justify the promotion of an officer of excise , and some of them were quite ready to employ their own votes to advance their careers so long as this was permitted by Parliament . |
| 8 | The spur cable can feed more than one wall light , so long as this will not overload the lighting circuit concerned ( see below ) . |
| 9 | You can connect your spur cable into the circuit at any existing conveniently-sited socket , so long as this is on the main circuit and is not already supplying a spur ( see ADDING EXTRA SOCKETS ) . |
| 10 | Christians must have difficulty in using the bible to speak to contemporary issues so long as this belief persists . |
| 11 | All Yugoslav nationals in Eighth Army area were to be returned so long as this did not involve the " use of force " . |
| 12 | At 2250 hrs that evening Eighth Army confirmed in a signal to 5 Corps that they were to act in accordance with AFHQ 's ruling that they could hand over all the anti-Tito Yugoslavs so long as this did not involve use of force . |
| 13 | The block grant from central government is calculated as the difference between the GRP and what the authority plans to spend , so long as this expenditure is below a government assessment of what the local authority should spend . |
| 14 | So long as this is true , the interpretation of geomorphic history rests on an exceedingly unstable base . |
| 15 | Doubt about its legality was finally resolved by section 310 of the Companies 1989 Act which said companies may protect their directors and officers from the costs of liability for negligence , default , breach of duty or trust so long as this is declared in the annual directors ' report . |
| 16 | It is easy to perceive that so long as this group of entrepreneurs is active in the market , and so long as they are alert to the changing prices their own activity brings about , the market process can proceed in an entirely normal fashion . |
| 17 | So long as this remains true , CDTV can not suffer by comparison . |
| 18 | " The Orthodox clergy and Church in the western area " , he said , " will not assume the status appropriate to their rank so long as this same clergy at the very centre of the state remain in their present condition and on their present level " . |
| 19 | The larger eddies and the mean flow development are independent of the viscosity ( so long as this is small enough to make the Reynolds number large ) . |
| 20 | Instead , they are likely to suggest that some methods of discipline can be used to help prevent a young person absconding from care so long as this does them no harm . |
| 21 | I tuned in halfway through as this guy was complaining about the official . |
| 22 | She had been expecting him to call , though not quite so soon as this . |
| 23 | It went on falling steadily , although not so rapidly as this . |
| 24 | to assimilate the law relating to chattels real and real property , and , so far as this is possible , the law relating to land and movable property ; and |
| 25 | In so far as this tendency brought with it loss of belief in survival , the Evangelicals may be said to have unintentionally contributed to the process . |
| 26 | In any event , the courts now seem to take a softer line on police practice so far as this can be discerned from the undiscussed elements in cases that reach the law reports for other reasons . |
| 27 | To be for animal welfare , as distinct from merely being against animal cruelty , is to believe that we have a duty to improve the quality of animal life , by ensuring — so far as this is possible — that other animals are the beneficiaries of what is good for them , not merely that we should avoid being cruel to them . |
| 28 | He said , ‘ So far as this court is concerned it must be taken as settled that the proper construction to be given to [ s.14(2) of the Water Act 1973 ] is to exclude liability for escapes in the absence of negligence ’ . |
| 29 | In so far as this political power , as ‘ concentrated violence ’ against the bourgeoisie , is itself an economic force , it is the force which severs the capitalist relations of production , by putting the proletariat in charge of the material and physical framework of production … on the other hand , this same ‘ concentrated violence ’ is partly turned inward , where it is a factor in the self-organisation and compulsory self-discipline of the workers . |
| 30 | So far as this is no more than a cost-cutting exercise it falls outside the scope of this article . |