Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [adj] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 This seems a paradox but it is not : the system is geared to the needs of the operating units but the units are expendable so long as the system remains intact .
2 Remember when colouring eggs that egg shells are porous so only use edible or non-toxic paints and colourings if you want to eat the egg after it 's decorated .
3 As I mentioned earlier , you want to eat a cream cake , you think yuk cream cakes 're disgusting so there you turn the desire for something lovely into the opposite er yuk hateful .
4 It is important that this potentially very valuable approach safeguards itself so far as possible against misinterpretation : in particular , that the content of religious belief does not really matter , that knowledge of religious tradition is unimportant , and that any opinions and beliefs are acceptable so long as they are sincerely held .
5 In the UK , the present position is that microbiological processes are patentable so long as there has been a significant human intervention in the discovery of the organism and its isolation .
6 If an Act of Parliament says that A ( who may be a minister or a commission or a local authority or an individual ) shall be the person to settle certain specified questions and that there shall be neither appeal to nor review by any other body or person ( including the courts ) , then A's decisions are unchallengeable so long as ( a ) it is A , not another , who decides , ( b ) A decides those specified questions and not others and ( c ) A does not act in bad faith or with similar impropriety .
7 In sum , it is probably time to overcome the politics of standardization — ‘ standards are good so long as you adopt mine ’ .
8 Actual attacks on humans are rare so far and more likely to be the work of strays than of truly feral animals .
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