Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never mind where so long as it is a public space . |
| 2 | It did n't matter where so long as it was cheap . |
| 3 | It allowed me to work for up to a minute or so rather than seconds , as with a sable , before reloading . |
| 4 | To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal . |
| 5 | The availability of cheap and regular transport by train and tram promoted suburbanization in the United States too , though a generation or so later than in Britain . |
| 6 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 7 | The same applied a week or so later when I won the 100 metres at Gateshead against France and Czechoslovakia . |
| 8 | I got on well with him and he was partly responsible a year or so later when I moved to a morning paper in Wales . |
| 9 | Correction followed a day or so later when Telegraph readers were told that the upturned finger had been employed in early-day meetings when congregations sang : The way to Heaven is straight and plain ; Will you go ? |
| 10 | I think maybe English men would refer to their car as She or so on if they get to think you know they make things have personalities you start to give them personal pronoun there . |
| 11 | Sawyer and Darton put the position accurately and succinctly in English Books 1475–1900 : ‘ Certain editions are valued for their peculiarities , their rarity or their beauty of production , but not , from a collector 's point of view , so highly or so often as the amateur who possesses an old volume believes . ‘ |
| 12 | The agreement recited that John had left all his estate to his executors by his will but that , shortly before his death , he had declared in the presence of several witnesses that he wished his widow to have the cottage for her life or so long as she continued a widow ; and that , though this wish was never put into writing , the executors were convinced that it was his desire and were willing and desirous that it should be put into effect . |
| 13 | The agreement stated that ‘ in consideration of such dfesire ’ the executors would convey the cottage to the widow for her life or so long as she should continue a widow . |
| 14 | These changes should allow the bureau to release the first summary reports in late spring next year , some six months or so earlier than in 1980 . |
| 15 | The great spotted woodpecker began brief but intense bursts of drumming in the second week of January which is a week or so earlier than in most recent years and many weeks earlier than was normal a decade ago . |
| 16 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 17 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 18 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |
| 19 | It was hard going , but as readers of her undoubtedly interesting although immensely tendentious book will discover , some progress was made , although so far as I was concerned with astonishing fluctuations in my popularity . |
| 20 | It remains to be seen whether this suggestion will become law , but the only really confident prediction must be that so long as capitalism remains , trusts will continue to change and develop so as to meet changes in social conditions and the tax structure . |
| 21 | She did n't mind about that so long as she got a lovely little grave like Mrs Hollidaye 's baby daughter . |
| 22 | I know that so long as I do n't manage to count up to one hundred before the spasm ceases , I shall live . |
| 23 | Over coffee in the study Miss Danziger thanked the guests individually for their concern , apologised for interrupting their enjoyment of an excellent meal , and explained that so long as she came out of the spasm in less than a minute and a half it was not dangerous and left no ill-effects . |
| 24 | His position could be summed up as saying that so long as it has not been established beyond doubt that God does not exist , we should believe in God . |
| 25 | Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact . |
| 26 | Bread never went mouldy in Algeria , which meant that so long as I was prepared for a good chew , I could always buy enough to last to the next village . |
| 27 | From the above we can see that so long as investment goods , particularly fixed assets , are being produced on an increased scale the effect on business conditions is favourable . |
| 28 | Some might worry that he is allowing the Californians to influence him too much , but I ca n't help feeling that so long as he manages to stay on his horse he remains the best sort of Englishman aborad . |
| 29 | recognized that so long as Capitalism continued the alternatives were either a patched-up imperialist peace or an imperialist war . |
| 30 | His head was cut off , buried on Tower Hill facing France in the belief that so long as it remained there , Britain would be safe from invasion . |