Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 A company can protect information of this kind only so long as it is confidential to the business and not in the public domain .
2 We should proceed beyond the immediate results of experience only so far as legitimate inductions will take us .
3 Nothing in soft conventionalism guarantees , or even promotes , the ideal of protected expectations , that past decisions will be relied on to justify collective force only so far as their authority and their terms are made uncontroversial by widely accepted conventions .
4 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 .
5 WITH the object and intent of affording to the Vendor a full and sufficient indemnity but not further or otherwise the Purchaser hereby covenants with the Vendor that he the Purchaser and the persons deriving title under him will at all times hereafter duly observe and perform the covenants contained or referred to in the Conveyance so far as the same affect the property hereby conveyed and remain to be observed and performed and are capable of being enforced and will indemnity and keep indemnified the Vendor and his successors in title from and against all actions costs claims and demands in respect of any breach non-observance or non-performance thereof so far as aforesaid
6 Does n't make any difference just so long as it 's equivalent to two pints of lager .
7 His legs are so long that when the rear tyre breaks away he can pick the bike up so quickly because he 's already on it .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank .
11 Even now , gin with ice cold tonic is the spirit I 'd probably choose to take with me to a desert island just so long as there were plenty of lemon groves to hand on my castaway paradise .
12 If , for example , your company uses PCs extensively but the obvious choice in software happens only to run on a Unix workstation then so long as the files can be transported between the two systems there is no penalty in selecting an ‘ alien ’ hardware platform .
13 I know that when I see the books of a hitherto-collected writer being grouped in a catalogue in half-dozens and tens , instead of being offered singly , he is on the way out so far as the collecting world counts for anything .
14 It describes the present position but draws attention under the heading De-materialisation of Listed Securities to the aims of the TAURUS project which may be achieved shortly after this edition is published and which will change the position markedly so far as concerns fully paid securities of listed companies .
15 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 .
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