Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By and large , Parliament and the judiciary have taken the view that free speech is a very good thing so long as it does not cause trouble . |
| 32 | ‘ So long as it does n't interfere with your work ! ’ he snarled , and , as if he could no longer bear to be in the same room with her , he turned and strode from her sitting-room , through her hall , and out of her flat . |
| 33 | Again and again in the night hours she thought of him , of his aggression and of the barely veiled hint in his parting shot ‘ so long as it does n't interfere with your work ! ’ that for all she had , so far , gone along with everything he had decreed , she could still find herself out of a job if she did n't toe the line . |
| 34 | It 's great — so long as it does n't rain too hard ! |
| 35 | Whatever so long as it does n't matter , do n't worry about it , why you upset ? |
| 36 | We do n't really mind if people get an attack of flu , so long as it does n't kill them , er if you recover then fine , but , and that 's really what the vaccine does , so it 's , it 's , it 's particularly good at actually stopping people dying from , from flu . |
| 37 | So long as it remains in this room , he wrote , it is not finished . |
| 38 | The same section further provides that ‘ … any enactment passed or to be passed … shall be construed and have effect subject to the foregoing … ’ and since the doctrine of supremacy of Community law is arguably a part of Community law this provision appears to have the effect , so long as it remains law , of establishing the primacy of Community law , ( s.2 ( 4 ) ) . |
| 39 | British law in this area is roughly based on the liberal precept that immorality may only be tolerated so long as it remains a wholly private matter . |
| 40 | 10.7.10 The rights and licences hereby granted or agreed to be granted to a Non-academic Party pursuant to Clauses 10.7.2 b to 10.7.6 shall be exercisable on identical terms by any Related company of that Party for so long as it remains such , subject to the obtaining from such companies of suitable undertakings as to confidence and delivery up . |
| 41 | I 'm willing therefore to call it ‘ A Lakeland Circuit ’ , so long as it remains merely ‘ a ’ circuit and does not become ‘ the ’ circuit . |
| 42 | So long as it remains within 8″ of its regiment during the game , the detachment may take any leadership-based tests on the leadership value of the parent regiment , including any bonuses that apply for standards , magic items , and so forth . |
| 43 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 44 | Hence section 252 provides that a private company ( whether or not small or medium-sized ) may elect ( by elective resolution in accordance with section 379A ) to dispense with the laying of accounts , and this dispensation applies in respect of the financial year in which the election is made and to subsequent financial years so long as it remains in force . |
| 45 | Clearly , this must be the case so long as it remains the only easily available platform for interactive multimedia . |
| 46 | Writing a doctorate on the British response to the church conflict in Nazi Germany , I was well aware that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had refused to grant that the established national Protestant Church was in fact a Christian church so long as it refused to ordain people who were racially Jewish . |
| 47 | His head was cut off , buried on Tower Hill facing France in the belief that so long as it remained there , Britain would be safe from invasion . |
| 48 | The actual nature of the game is not important so long as it focuses your attention effectively , distracting you from your negative thoughts or your symptoms . |
| 49 | And whether they 're coming or not , that city is going to hold out to starvation point and beyond , so long as it believes in a rescue . ’ |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | There could , indeed , be no two opinions as to the right of every one of the great national subdivisions of Europe to dispose of itself , independently of its neighbours in all internal matters , so long as it did not encroach upon the liberty of others . |
| 52 | It matters not how strong the persuasion was , so long as it did not overbear the independence of the patient 's decision . |
| 53 | Any word could follow any other word , just so long as it matched the phonetic input description . |
| 54 | The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change . |
| 55 | Yet this very claim for monarchy implies a limitation : the irrational and reverential institution is to be tolerated so long as it serves its function . |
| 56 | The Government has stated that , as well as continuing cover on non-vested markets for NCM , it will provide reinsurance for those contracts which are deemed to be in the ‘ national interest ’ for as long as the Government considers its existence essential to meet the reasonable needs of exporters and so long as it performs satisfactorily as a trading facility . |
| 57 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 58 | Furthermore , while it may well be correct to say that the implied licence doctrine ( so long as it survived ) itself involved the " adaptation " of the literal application of the statutory provisions " to meet one special type of case " , I do not think it correct that the [ old ] decisions … authorise or justify an application of the statutory provisions otherwise than in accordance with their ordinary and natural meaning … |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |