Example sentences of "[adv] long [subord] it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's why the play has survived so long because it has this peculiar charm . ’ |
| 2 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |
| 3 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 4 | So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple . |
| 5 | Barry Quirke , chairman of the Institute of Statisticians , said : ‘ We would be very keen to support any initiative to set up an independent committee , so long as it has teeth . |
| 6 | His position could be summed up as saying that so long as it has not been established beyond doubt that God does not exist , we should believe in God . |
| 7 | The good news is that the most common infestation , by the woodworm — or anobium punctatum or furniture beetle , call it what you will — can be treated , so long as it has not gone too far into the timbers , at a cost of a few hundred pounds . |
| 8 | NEXT loops execute at integer speed whether or not the control variable is an " integer variable " ( % type ) , so long as it has an integer value . |
| 9 | There 's also a guy called Ron Tyson who collects every magazine article ever written about Hendrix … so long as it 's got Hendrix on the front cover . |
| 10 | I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number . |
| 11 | Later , legs and a handle were added to convert the vessel into a sauce-boat , perhaps long after it had been made obsolete as a feeding vessel by the introduction of the first feeding bottles . |
| 12 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 13 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 14 | We did n't expect it to last as long as it has , and were hoping for some relief by the end of the year . |