Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] so long [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A company can protect information of this kind only so long as it is confidential to the business and not in the public domain . |
| 2 | A declaration of dominance , of the attitude that had accepted Darwin only so long as his ideas could be misrepresented in shuffling the animal kingdom into a league table with man several steps above its head , almost within touching distance of God . |
| 3 | Only later was this amended to allow the return of Yugoslavs home so long as they went willingly . |
| 4 | Does n't make any difference just so long as it 's equivalent to two pints of lager . |
| 5 | Academics already in post retain their tenure only so long as they do not move to another university or accept promotion within their present university . |
| 6 | Even now , gin with ice cold tonic is the spirit I 'd probably choose to take with me to a desert island just so long as there were plenty of lemon groves to hand on my castaway paradise . |
| 7 | If , for example , your company uses PCs extensively but the obvious choice in software happens only to run on a Unix workstation then so long as the files can be transported between the two systems there is no penalty in selecting an ‘ alien ’ hardware platform . |
| 8 | In the sonnet just quoted , for instance , Shakespeare presents the Poet in a humiliating situation , indifferent to the behaviour of the Mistress with other men just so long as he gets some share of the action . |
| 9 | The procedural advantages persisted even at Rome only so long as there were two procedural systems , which at the end of the third century ceased to be the case . |