Example sentences of "[vb base] so [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If we care about other people — and if we want so far as possible to affirm other people — we shall walk warily before dismissing out of hand , discourteously or clumsily , what is deeply meaningful to them . |
| 3 | ( 120 ) I never knew a little adventure happen so quickly as in East Africa . |
| 4 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 5 | But there is no agreement on the way these costs should be calculated and estimates vary so widely as to make them practically meaningless . |
| 6 | er you know so far as we can get that erm and I 'll then give you a description of how the theory er predicts your er preferences for behaving in particular ways , would work out . |
| 7 | By way of contrast members of a moral or rule-based association share nothing other than their recognition of the authority of those practices ; sharers of a common language , for example , may say what they like so long as they comply with the canons of that language . |
| 8 | Do what you like so long as you do n't get caught . |
| 9 | He could n't tell when the singing came to an end , or the Archbishop 's voice was first raised , addressing the city ; offering it God 's peace and succour so long as the Feast of Christ lasted . |
| 10 | Worried people do not concentrate , hear or understand so well as usual . |
| 11 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 12 | Some biologists go so far as to see DNA as a device used by organisms to reproduce themselves , just as an eye is a device used by organisms to see ! |
| 13 | Some farmers even go so far as to grow continuous cereal crops indefinitely — barley on the lighter land and winter wheat on the strong clays . |
| 14 | Barr et al ( 1989 ) go so far as to suggest that ‘ if the receiving hospital is allowed to ‘ dump ’ excess capacity by charging no more than short-term marginal cost it will , in effect , be ‘ stealing ’ part of another District 's budget ’ . |
| 15 | Nay , they even go so far as to lay odds that before Christmas he lands a force in England or Ireland . |
| 16 | We go so far as to say that in choice of partner it is a wise unconscious that falls in love with and marries its own unrecognized problem and then in marriage recreates the problematic situation . |
| 17 | SSL is claimed to be very difficult for ( hearing ) adults to learn ; some go so far as to say that it is impossible . |
| 18 | Many manufacturers wo n't allow you to remove the machine 's case without automatically voiding your warranty : some go so far as to put seals over the case so they can tell if you 've opened it . |
| 19 | They treat their women like mules and they fornicate with animals ; indeed in this respect they are so jealous that they go so far as to attach chastity belts to their mares and mules . |
| 20 | The propagandists go so far as to assume , even to assert , that it would not result in any splitting of the party vote : in other words that votes transferred from Dandy or Deadman or Doughty would go to another of these three running-mates and not elsewhere . |
| 21 | Some interpretations of modern astrophysics go so far as to suggest that a conscious observer is necessary for the physical universe to exist at all — the observed needs an observer . |
| 22 | In fact some pro-choice advocates go so far as to deny that abortion is a moral issue at all — a favourite slogan for a while was ‘ abortion is a health issue , not a moral issue ’ . |
| 23 | Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis . |
| 24 | Some even go so far as to link its emergence to the coming of reggae music to Britain , circa 1970 , and the first reggae film widely seen in Britain , Perry Henzell 's ( 1972 ) The Harder They Come starring Jimmy Cliff . |
| 25 | Though few proceed so far as Grant Gilmore in awarding a death certificate to the classical law of contract , as exceptions to the rules multiply , most writers at least acknowledge that novel principles destroy the crispness and generality of such doctrines as consideration and privity . |
| 26 | ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 28 | I think so long as you can keep the parts of the structure there |
| 29 | I could never have expressed that wish so long as my father was alive , for I had been trained to think that such sentiments would hurt him . |
| 30 | Bricks and mortar so far as I 'm concerned . |