Example sentences of "[verb] that so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Articles 85 and 86 of Table A ( prescribed pursuant to the Companies Act 1985 ) provide that so long as a director has disclosed his interest to the company , he may be a party to or interested in any transaction , and shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the company for any benefit he receives from such a transaction .
2 The justification supposes that so long as a person is possessed of a right , that right may be exercised regardless of the consequences for others .
3 You say that so far as you 're concerned , it 's all right for children to learn if in fact they 're enjoying it and if in fact they want to and they 're not being coerced .
4 You say that so far as you 're concerned , it 's all right for children to learn if in fact they 're enjoying it and if in fact they want to and they 're not being coerced .
5 recognized that so long as Capitalism continued the alternatives were either a patched-up imperialist peace or an imperialist war .
6 He believed that so long as he remained in the Government the Press attacks would continue and that his supposedly malevolent influence would be blamed for every failure .
7 Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field .
8 It seemed that so far as they were concerned Meehan , guilty or innocent , could stay in Peterhead for ever .
9 It might be thought that so long as one asserted the local sign theory only in principle ( that is , did not specify the precise nature of the ‘ feeling ’ or ‘ colouring ’ which is supposed to subserve localisation ) , one could rely on the testimony of introspection for one 's theory to be confirmed .
10 From the above we can see that so long as investment goods , particularly fixed assets , are being produced on an increased scale the effect on business conditions is favourable .
11 Luke 's no fool ; he could see that so far as I was concerned Elise was more than just a client .
12 A gentleman of the faculty in the neighbourhood , hearing of the circumstance , and finding it so well authenticated , immediately made him an offer of ten guineas for the dog , which the grateful farmer refused , exultingly adding that so long as he had a bone in his meat , or a crust to his bread , he would divide it with the faithful friend who had preserved his life : arid this he did in a perfect conviction that the warmth of the dog , in covering the most vital part , had continued the circulation arid prevented a total stagnation of the blood by the frigidity of the elements . "
13 It is easy to perceive that so long as this group of entrepreneurs is active in the market , and so long as they are alert to the changing prices their own activity brings about , the market process can proceed in an entirely normal fashion .
14 Our discussion has shown that so long as the resources used by producers are accessible to all , all their activities are entrepreneurial-competitive .
15 Previous sections have shown that so far as the ‘ internal ’ interpretation of dispositions was concerned trusts differed only slightly from civil-law dispositions .
16 I know that so long as I do n't manage to count up to one hundred before the spasm ceases , I shall live .
17 President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine denied Tory MPs were looking for a new leader , saying : ‘ We know that so long as we keep our nerve and pursue policies that are important we can come through .
18 Turner has demonstrated that so far as cotton weavers were concerned , associational persistence can be reconciled with only sporadic incidence , since the true foundation was the durable one of the habit of association within a " community " of workers , or indeed , in the case of the manufacturing village , within an occupational community .
19 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 .
20 No doubt in due course they would become equally vocal in their complaints about the French , but Thiercelin decided that so far as possible his own behaviour should be above reproach .
21 The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust .
22 Bread never went mouldy in Algeria , which meant that so long as I was prepared for a good chew , I could always buy enough to last to the next village .
23 The text pronounces that so far as the words are concerned no trust is created , but then goes on to give a moral reason for holding one to have been created ; it ends by referring to a similar decision of Marcus Aurelius .
24 If the unreasonableness produces voidness that means that so far as the law is concerned the clause has never existed : it may well then be possible to claim in tort for the restitution of money or goods although no specific action can be brought on the basis of the contractual force of the clause .
25 I think that so far as possible we need to be able to encourage the civic authorities to take whatever is the appropriate interest .
26 I think that so far as we 've got .
27 Wilson later admitted that so far as the shipowners were concerned , " It was blow given and blow returned .
28 Akashi said that so long as the Khmers Rouges refused to disarm , a freeze was necessary to maintain the balance of power in the country .
29 The scent of human food was very strong in the Gruncher 's nostrils , and he must have been thinking that so long as he kept going flat out , he would catch his meal in the end .
30 Nevertheless , he did not deny that so far as the kingdom of England was concerned , the decision between the two rivals lay with the king .
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