Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she thought it was all right as long as he had squared the matter with his own family . |
| 2 | Setting prices in relation to costs is all right as long as the latter are under control , but here they clearly are n't : it is obvious that if Marie 's back is turned , food either gets wasted or goes missing . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm all right as long as I know where things are going , but it 's not on a par with planning a legal argument . ’ |
| 4 | Skiing is all right as long as you do n't take risks . |
| 5 | 4 Never make your students feel stupid or ignorant ; if you want to make a joke at a student 's expense , that 's all right as long as he does n't mind his leg being pulled . |
| 6 | Some researchers with whom discussions have been held admit to copying theses obtained on inter-library loan , and justify such behaviour by saying that ‘ it 'll be all right as long as I do n't publish ’ . |
| 7 | Voice not so loud as Great Spotted . |
| 8 | Drums fairly often in spring , not so loud as Great Spotted , but lasting longer , two seconds , with 10–30 blows . |
| 9 | Calls ‘ teu ’ , ‘ teeoo ’ , ‘ chik ’ , etc. not so loud as other shanks , also a liquid twittering trill . |
| 10 | So long as international affairs were left to the uncontrolled interplay of nation states , mutual suspicion would generate arms races which , in turn , would generate wars . |
| 11 | Au these possibilities are recognized in EC competition policy , and are given exemption from Article 85 so long as certain safeguards are in place . |
| 12 | Its distribution in space becomes more and more contorted by the velocity fluctuations , but so long as molecular diffusion plays no role , the marked fluid is always just the same fluid . |
| 13 | So long as criminological theory drew from ahistorical empirical data from the United States and Europe it was possible to construct theories relatively consistent with the available evidence . |
| 14 | So long as political elites are capable of providing policy leadership , the roles and behaviour of public agency administrators are simple . |
| 15 | Indeed , so long as total pleasure just outweighs total pain an ever increasing population is likely to be a more effective way of increasing happiness than making life better for each individual . |
| 16 | So long as other leaders do not follow Dubček 's example , Moscow can be confident of dealing with known quantities in its client states and of possessing means to manipulate factional rivalries to its own advantage . |
| 17 | For example , if he learnt that the patient was a Jehovah 's Witness , but had no evidence of a refusal to accept blood transfusions , he would avoid or postpone any blood transfusion so long as possible . |
| 18 | And there is plenty to read and write even when there is strict censorship and the theatres are closed , so long as trustworthy domestic service gives one the time . |
| 19 | As Sir Patrick Geddes , an early sociologist , commented in 1904 : ‘ Whether , under favourable circumstances and the rare public spirit of private owners , much can be done , or to any wide extent , so long as absolute individual ownership in land and ground values is allowed , seems to me very doubtful . ’ |
| 20 | So long as religious music and sophisticated secular music shared the common techniques of imitative polyphony they naturally preserved a relationship the closeness of which is demonstrated by the numerous paraphrase Masses based on madrigals or chansons . |
| 21 | That prospect is anyway slight so long as Soviet-American cosiness continues and Iraq 's war machine remains broken . |
| 22 | Socialist proponents of the use of markets do not suggest that markets can simply be retained , so long as private ownership of the means of production is abolished . |
| 23 | From as early as 1708 most Tories were pushing for peace , so long as suitable terms could be reached with France . |
| 24 | So long as full employment was sustained by government policy , wage inflation was a natural consequence . |
| 25 | It is entirely in accordance with common sense , so long as common sense is intelligently applied . |
| 26 | So long as parliamentary sovereignty remains " the one fundamental law " of the Constitution , there is no way in which substantive rights can be entrenched and put beyond the reach of Parliament . |
| 27 | Clearly , so long as ministerial assurances are honoured , rate-capping can deliver only very limited reductions in total local authority expenditure . |
| 28 | American officials generously agree that there is nothing wrong with government schemes to spend money on PCs , so long as foreign firms have a fair chance to bid for orders . |
| 29 | Gen Noreiga said last Friday that Panama considered itself at war with the US so long as American aggression against Panamanians continued . |
| 30 | Such prejudices will flourish so long as hard facts are unavailable , and facts about sex in schools are practically non-existent because no education authority is likely to commission research on the subject . |