Example sentences of "so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Practical support in the home means that family members may not have to spend so long in hospital . |
| 2 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 3 | Never mind where so long as it is a public space . |
| 4 | So long as it remains in this room , he wrote , it is not finished . |
| 5 | So long as we have language , he argued , we simply can not conceive it . |
| 6 | Impossible to reconcile space suggested by charts and space of room , which is just what I wanted , but for so long did n't know how to arrive at . |
| 7 | What had been in my head for so long now out there , in the world . |
| 8 | As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known . |
| 9 | All seems so long ago and far away . |
| 10 | I have never spent so long on a single project . |
| 11 | So there must have been something in it to hold my attention for so long . |
| 12 | It is not so long till some bushes are there . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I was brought up in Berkhamsted and I spent a couple of years living in Oxfordshire not so long ago , so I 'm not completely inflexible about this . |
| 14 | Wetland plants will be in their element , so long as they are given generous mulches to keep the moisture in . |
| 15 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 16 | After the birth , intercourse can begin again as soon as you feel ready and so long as you do n't feel any discomfort . |
| 17 | But as one said , ‘ so long as you 're not reading that bloody sociology ’ . |
| 18 | In the world of an inside ethnography as Favret-Saada identifies , ‘ one is never able to choose between subjectivism and the objective method as it was taught ’ ( ibid. 23 ) , so long as one wishes to find out answers which , in traditional ethnography , are often missing from the finite corpus of empirical observation . |
| 19 | So long as I stuck to squawks and Pretty fucking Polly , I was fine ? |
| 20 | ‘ So long as we get him out ’ — Cameron was still cagey . |
| 21 | ‘ Nothing is enough , so long as we have no hand in government . ’ |
| 22 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 23 | So long as your people will take them food . |
| 24 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 25 | ‘ So long as we are not like generals to them . ’ |
| 26 | and angels and men , asleep so long |
| 27 | So long as we adopt a broadly ‘ functionalist ’ philosophy of mind — in which mental states are defined in terms of their causal relations to sensory inputs , motor outputs and to one another — this ‘ computational theory of the mind ’ is a very satisfying general account of the mind-body relationship . |
| 28 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 29 | You may say , against this , that there can surely be some form of appearance/reality distinction so long as the input systems can deliver up information about such objective facts as occlusion . |
| 30 | Moreover , we showed , in a small study , that non-conservers of length will say that a one-inch and a ten-inch stick are the same length so long as their tips are on a level . |