Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 For ‘ the game ’ was one that everyone played , and that was all right so long as you took your losses without squealing .
2 But Miss Philimore seems to think she 's all right so long as she 's watched , and it would save me having to look for someone else . ’
3 They make good the severe limitations on the hesitation system , which can take us only so far when we are faced with a problem of word retrieval .
4 Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas , and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences .
5 The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish .
6 There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA .
7 It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will .
8 Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ .
9 Furthermore s. 2(4) European Communities Act 1972 provides that any Act of the Westminster Parliament shall be presumed not to conflict with EEC legislation , and will be given effect only so far as it does not conflict with the EEC legislation .
10 The best advice is : aim at concentrating all your intelligence on the specific question , and bring in your knowledge only so far as it is relevant .
11 An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem .
12 Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people .
13 Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him .
14 They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office .
15 Academics already in post retain their tenure only so long as they do not move to another university or accept promotion within their present university .
16 Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run .
17 Learning is a ‘ free commodity ’ , but only so long as we are thinking of knowledge as a source of intrinsic , expressive rewards .
18 But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent .
19 A company can protect information of this kind only so long as it is confidential to the business and not in the public domain .
20 Ministers of the Crown will no longer be responsible for the internal workings of such organisations , accept in so far as they fulfil their contractual obligations .
21 Just so long as we maintain the candidacy . ’
22 Just so long as we understand each other . ’
23 ‘ Good , ’ he said coldly , ‘ just so long as we understand each other .
24 We succumbed to temptation once , Bernard , but I 'm sure Mary will forgive just so long as we never , ever do it again . ’
25 Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment .
26 But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity …
27 Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value .
28 Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer .
29 ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’
30 I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me .
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