Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 2 | They were even willing to occupy pre-moulded nests so long as they could carry out their normal movements before laying . |
| 3 | As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines . |
| 4 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |
| 5 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 6 | We knew we were safe , so long as they could n't spot individuals and target them for later , and in the darkness the Danuese let the malais know what they thought of them . |
| 7 | So long as they can sell , AEs will never have to pass the exam . |
| 8 | They do n't care whether I stand on the side of a screen or front stage so long as they can see me , hear me , Karl Gesner . |
| 9 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 10 | These should , on the face of things , be the most reliable sources , so long as we can trust the writer . |
| 11 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 12 | So but we 're we 're very easy with things , we do n't erm we do n't jump up and down and get cross erm so long as we can get some . |
| 13 | So long as we can get it , that 's all I 'm bothered about . |
| 14 | One would also tend to accept verbatim reports of judicial court proceedings , evidence given before special committees of enquiry , so long as one can genuinely believe that the people keeping the record were quite impartial and skilled in their work and that all they took down has been printed without editing . |
| 15 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 16 | So long as he can block Labour , his own party will stick together . |
| 17 | Mr Gates would be happy to get his financial information from the quarterly report to shareholders — so long as he can be confident that the news will be as consistently good as it has been during Mr Shirley 's seven years in charge . |
| 18 | Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ . |
| 19 | Even where a trustee has misappropriated trust property the fund may still preserve its identity , and , so long as it can be identified , the rights of the beneficiaries will attach to the fund into whatever form it may have been converted by him . |
| 20 | the Crown is not bound to take the advice of a particular Ministry to put its subjects to the tumult and turmoil of a series of general elections so long as it can find other Ministers who are prepared to give it a trial . |
| 21 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 22 | So long as it could prevent news of discontent travelling from one region to another and igniting a bush-fire of revolt , the Party was able to restore its control relatively quickly and with little loss of life . |
| 23 | No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip . |
| 24 | Nobody destroys me , and nobody was going to destroy Johnnie so long as I could sit by his bed — some of his family tried to stop me — and will my life force into him . ’ |
| 25 | There 's a bleak line in the book when , his parents divorcing , his father leaving for Europe , Rock quotes himself , aged 11 , saying ‘ I 'll be OK , Dad , I wo n't need Mom so long as I can have the limo . ’ |
| 26 | For so long as I can recall I have always had kennels and an assortment of dogs to help me in my work . |
| 27 | I do not mind being told what I can not do , so long as I can accede to an adequate reason why . |
| 28 | I do n't know , but so long as I can cure the disease I do n't much care ! |
| 29 | Just so long as I can see you . ’ |
| 30 | He beamed at them again and Caspar was beginning to relax , because it seemed as if they might escape after all and Fenella was remembering about magic being very nearly everyday here , when Pumlumon said , ‘ Of course , that 's so long as I can remember the words . ’ |