Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] long [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 2 | I think that 's why the play has survived so long because it has this peculiar charm . ’ |
| 3 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 4 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
| 5 | They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes . |
| 6 | The limes have survived that long because of the technique of coppicing . |