Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Masculinity can be problematized , even feminized , so long as homosexuality remains as its defining other . |
| 62 | Whether they did so because they ought to or because they were obliged to , so long as employers treated employees only just well enough , there need be no struggle between them . |
| 63 | A statement warned : ‘ So long as the SDLP continue to exercise a veto on political progress in Ulster , courtesy of IRA violence , and so long as Sinn Fein/IRA continue to act as the military wing of Irish nationalism , then so long will our war against them continue and intensify . ’ |
| 64 | An advance was requested and paid , and a further sum promised on delivery , so long as Mozart made no attempt to discover its source . |
| 65 | None was admitted so long as Coleman was alive . |
| 66 | They would be quite happy to forget all those things so long as Fedorov obliged them by carrying out certain routine tasks from time to time . |
| 67 | So long as teachers are made to feel guilty about such difficulties in a negative and personal manner then they will be susceptible to short-term placebos . |
| 68 | So long as HMI monitor and control the standards of the inspections , the changes proposed will bring many positive benefits . |
| 69 | I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business . |
| 70 | He suggests that there is a strong argument for decentralization to local government ( and potentially a limited hierarchy with some overlapping powers ) so long as information is available which makes it possible for voters to judge between them and thus to influence the direction of their own local government through elections . |
| 71 | So long as men dominate women in conversation by restricting their talk , our folklinguistic beliefs will include the idea that women talk incessantly . |
| 72 | So long as frontier zones of the empire remained insecure , the tsar had to eschew an ambitious foreign policy . |
| 73 | The externalist says , in this case , that so long as condition 4 does in fact hold , whether a is able to point it out or even to understand it or not , a does know that p ( given conditions 1- 3 , of course ) . |
| 74 | Tensions over the degree to which hopes for peace could be invested in the processes of inter-state relations were already familiar to pre-1914 pacifists , and they will continue to exercise peace activists so long as nation states exist . |
| 75 | So long as assets remain available they will have caused the company to borrow on mortgage , but when the company 's credit is exhausted they may attempt to keep the company afloat by themselves making unsecured loans to it . |
| 76 | Such arrangements have for some time been permitted so long as clients are fully informed of the nature of the company and the profits go to the firm . |
| 77 | 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 . |
| 78 | This shortfall is made up by investment demand and so long as investment and saving are equal , aggregate demand ( which in this simple model is consumption plus investment ) will necessarily equal the total value of production . |
| 79 | There is no need for taxes , subsidies and public provision ; and so long as property rights already exist , there is no need for energetic policies aimed at shifting them around . |
| 80 | So long as Hitler threatened Europe the prospects for a revival of peace politics were minimal . |
| 81 | But she had nice hair — not so long as Marie 's , but just as shiny . |
| 82 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 83 | So long as people can walk out of a room and say they have decided to leave on their terms , they retain their dignity . |
| 84 | So long as people want to travel , the money , aircraft and qualified staff are always available for some determined operator to keep services going , no matter what happens to individual airlines . |
| 85 | David Tuffin , of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors , says the principle of self-build is still fine , so long as people 's prime concern is to make a place to live rather than save cash or make a profit . |
| 86 | So long as people continued to live in their old houses , surrounded by their old friends and neighbours , and had not broken with a routine of life which perhaps dated back generations , then the re-moulding of mentalities was going to be a frustratingly slow process , particularly for an engineer of human souls who was no longer young . |
| 87 | So long as people are carfeul and obey the law , there should be no problems . |
| 88 | So long as people can milk the benefits of contracting out , but still return when the gains run out , the Government is in a heads they win , tails we lose situation . |
| 89 | So long as Artai remained unmarried it was important to the self-esteem of each of them to demonstrate that while neither she nor her family had thus far been favoured with the Kha-Khan 's selection , yet she was capable of exercising influence . |
| 90 | So long as balance is defined in terms of the quantity of party coverage — and not whether it is favourable or unfavourable — then the only justification for awarding the government extra coverage is that the government represents order , stability , and legitimate authority , which the media has a duty to support . |