Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as everyone has an equal right to vote there must be a limit to the variations in prosperity in the community that are politically acceptable . |
| 2 | Indeed , it is most unlikely that Israel will give up its nuclear capability in the foreseeable future , so long as it foresees a threat to its land from its neighbour . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is clear then that the DUP will receive the votes of the working-class loyalists so long as it retains an image of being more unionist than the Officials , unless there should be an alternative to the right of the DUP . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Our art historian pin-up of the month is the Italian Vittorio Sgarbi , specialist in the late fifteenth-century Bolognese artist Antonio di Crevalcore , but happy to give his opinion on anything and anyone , so long as he reaches a public of millions ( as on last month 's cover of L'Espresso magazine ) . |
| 8 | Long as he wears a kilt . |
| 9 | Even a 25-year-old male with a couple of speeding convictions leaving the car on the street in a high-risk area can expect to pay only £424 per year , so long as he has a five-year no-claims bonus . |
| 10 | For him , the trend represents a contradiction of the growing pressure to make greater use of non-executive directors especially as it requires a far heavier burden of detailed knowledge of company 's activities from what are still essentially part-timers . |
| 11 | Another thing is that he himself might not be able to afford to send her the money , especially as he has a young family . ’ |
| 12 | It is not as she thinks a desire to ‘ make the most of it ’ , to somehow claim importance , but rather a recognition that in this oppressive society women need the care and emotional support of other women . |
| 13 | Although this might seem in one sense to be an unequivocal expression of deference , it becomes clear that it is purely conventional as soon as one imagines an Englishman acting in this way in the presence of his Queen . |
| 14 | ‘ Does she ask who it is first or does she just use it as soon as she hears a man 's voice ? ’ |
| 15 | Meanwhile , she can help herself to control her panic attacks by slowing down her breathing as soon as she feels an attack coming on . |
| 16 | But I guess as soon as she gets a job , she 'll be leaving to be married . " |
| 17 | His pedipalps are brightly coloured and patterned and as soon as he sights a female , he begins to signal with them in a kind of manic semaphore . |
| 18 | As soon as he gets a house she will leave home . |
| 19 | If you have ever watched a dog running across a field , unless he is tracking something , he will often run with his nose in the air , using his eyes for long-distance viewing , but as soon as he reaches an area of interest , down goes the nose , far closer to the ground . |
| 20 | Now I say , that that is an intellectual exercise , as soon as it becomes an emotional exercise |
| 21 | One of the typical patterns , when you go back to work or attend a course , is to opt out of this new situation as soon as it gets a little tough , especially if there are domestic problems such as children sick or on holiday . |
| 22 | Reynard backs off as she extends a foul paw . |
| 23 | Michael Stott , above , catches the Duchess unawares as he plants a kiss on her cheek and , inset , the Duchess talks to Andrew Taylor |
| 24 | A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear . |
| 25 | DOWN'N OUT POOR Mark Hughes slips up as he tries a shot in Moscow — and soon he had fallen from grace completely . |
| 26 | Yet the ‘ S ’ is more than capable of flying , kicking out as it does an impressive 145bhp . |
| 27 | In addition , the new knowledge about economic and demographic change in the past has suggested that it is urgent to reconsider several aspects of the received wisdom about the industrial revolution , notably the assumptions made by contemporaries about declining marginal returns in agriculture ; changes in the occupational structure of the English labour force before and during the industrial revolution ; and , more generally , the viability of the concept itself so far as it connotes a unitary and progressive phenomenon . |
| 28 | The literary tradition is valued in so far as it offers a critical evaluation of this transformation and its consequences . |
| 29 | And none of this would matter Chairman I do n't think er whether E two whether E two was in or out of the structure plan only matters in so far as it bears a part of the making of local plans and the making of planning applications in the county . |
| 30 | A group is coherent in so far as it has a certain continuity in its consciousness , its organisation and its action ; but its coherence also implies that its members do actually support one another in practical ways that are consistent with the objectives of the group . |