Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can work down an excellent tilth after ploughing so long as there is no unrotted turf . |
| 2 | But it looks like doing so only when the fishermen have emptied the seas . |
| 3 | He might feel that any heir , even one who disinherits him , is worth having so long as it keeps the name going . ’ |
| 4 | Thus , for example , in regard to proceedings in court , the mere absence of UK qualifications will not disqualify an EC lawyer from acting so long as he is instructed with and acts in conjunction with a UK lawyer . |
| 5 | The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) . |