Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] so [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ . |
| 2 | I do understand that the burden of an elderly , dependent relative , even of one so sprightly as your mother , can be great . |
| 3 | as regards any duty or requirement imposed on his employer or any other person by or under any of the relevant statutory provisions , to co-operate with him so far as is necessary to enable that duty or requirement to be performed or complied with . |
| 4 | She was great with him so long as he kept her occupied . |
| 5 | The NUWM , however , was under Communist control , and it was difficult to cooperate with it so long as the ILP was regarded as " Social Fascist " . |
| 6 | ‘ All else failing , a man 's character may be inferred from nothing so surely as the jest he takes in bad part . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We are very comfortable at Government House and Lady Franklin will not hear of our going from it so long as we remain in town . |
| 8 | ‘ has liberated English public law from the fetters that the courts had theretofore imposed upon themselves so far as determinations of inferior courts and statutory tribunals were concerned , by drawing esoteric distinctions between errors of law committed by such tribunals that went to their jurisdiction , and errors of law committed by them within their jurisdiction . |
| 9 | ‘ has liberated English public law from the fetters that the courts had theretofore imposed upon themselves so far as determinations of inferior courts and statutory tribunals were concerned , by drawing esoteric distinctions between errors of law committed by such tribunals that went to their jurisdiction , and errors of law committed by them within their jurisdiction . |
| 10 | Joyce met his German contact in the Ministry of Propaganda , Christian Bauer , who was optimistic over finding employment for him so long as there was no war . |
| 11 | While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’ |
| 12 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 13 | ‘ The position does not matter to me so long as I am playing . |
| 14 | Soviet leaders strove to convince the non-aligned states that Moscow had no objection to the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact or the imposition of restraints on it so long as these measures applied equally to NATO . |
| 15 | Many people besides farmers have problems caused by this er tax that , whatever one thinks er about it so far as the system is concerned , really when you look at it more closely it 's the details that have been so badly thought out . |
| 16 | On the other hand , we can not say that people are making up their minds for themselves so long as they are largely unaware of the influences that are playing upon them , and so long as those influences are not essentially diverse and competitive , but generally combine to push their thinking , their attitudes and feelings in a single direction . |
| 17 | The chatterbox will keep talking about anything so long as there is n't a pause where there could be an opportunity to engage brain before mouth . |
| 18 | We have bread and bacon and butter that 's good , With oatmeal and salt that is wholesome for food ; We have soap and candles whereby to give light That you may work by them so long as you have light . |
| 19 | They were bound by it so long as it was not in conflict with their statutory duty . |