Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 recognized that so long as Capitalism continued the alternatives were either a patched-up imperialist peace or an imperialist war .
2 Two toddler-type swings are requested as it is felt that more often than not two small children are taken to the playing field accompanied either by one or two adults and the provision of two swings would prevent disputes .
3 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 .
4 We do n't have any suspects , but it has to be said that as far as I can see the people with the best motive were the five permanent residents of the club . ’
5 It was late by the time the meal was done and later still when the company rose from the coffee cups in the drawing-room .
6 This was to encourage people to work through until their department moved and also so that R.S. left the impression of being a caring employer with those who chose redundancy .
7 I would suggest they look long and hard at the report they have written and even longer and harder in the mirror .
8 Some expensive mistakes may be made but less so as , with regular monitoring and evaluation .
9 It 's done done as well enough but I do prefer a Bernie .
10 In view of the points above , it is hardly surprising that none of these was rated as more than moderately effective , and only the advisory staff were rated as significantly better than ineffective .
11 Although present developments are seen as both quantitively and qualitively different , they too will pass : what will happen to the land on which housing is built ?
12 The same applies to the general deterrent argument : its effectiveness depends on whether the penalty for murder affects the calculations of potential killers at all , and , if it does , whether life imprisonment is seen as significantly more or less severe than the alternative of a long , fixed-term sentence .
13 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 .
14 Separate day and night attendants for the lunatics were to be engaged as required , and the master was told that as far as possible fresh water should be provided for bathing each casual .
15 It can be shown that as far as mechanical properties are concerned , where the elasticity tensor is of fourth rank , no terms higher than are required .
16 Our discussion has shown that so long as the resources used by producers are accessible to all , all their activities are entrepreneurial-competitive .
17 Previous sections have shown that so far as the ‘ internal ’ interpretation of dispositions was concerned trusts differed only slightly from civil-law dispositions .
18 Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) .
19 But it had n't flowered and as far as she could tell , had no intention of doing so .
20 In 1700 only 7.5 per cent of industrial output other than woollens was exported and as late as 1831 only 7.7 per cent of output other than that of all textiles ( with cotton now well ahead of wool ) and of iron .
21 Market research surveys were probably the first type of opinion survey to be used and as early as the first decade of the twentieth century .
22 The original corrugated iron booking office ( and present shop ) is to be preserved but as soon as possible it will be rebuilt , using identical , sound materials and the interior will be adapted as offices .
23 Backing all this up is a studio system that churns out ‘ stars ’ for Televisa 's bland pop-music programmes and melodramatic but successful soap operas ( which are watched as far away as China and Russia ) .
24 It has already been noted that as far as contracts of supply are concerned , required formalities are the exception .
25 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 .
26 The Cooking Centre was vacated and as far as is known nothing has happened .
27 The Cooking Centre was vacated and as far as is known nothing has happened .
28 There is a clear distinction here which is not always understood and sometimes even when it is understood it is deliberately ignored by professionals who explicitly claim ownership as a necessary part of practice .
29 The new pathway students were not identified by tutors in the clinical clerkships , and unreported data collected by Dr Gordon Moore , who coordinated the introduction of the scheme , suggest that new pathway students tended to be assessed as rather better than those who had come through the traditional route .
30 So he has an interesting idea that we can set up democratic procedures to protect the minority within those procedures so that tyranny of the majority is something that afflicts only certain types of democracies , but if we have other types of democracies then we can protect the minority and the idea for proportional representation is often claimed in this light , but actually it does n't work as an idea , because although it allows a minority to be represented , represented is a different from being protected and so even if there 's a member of parliament with the one member of parliament with your unpopular views , that does n't mean that your unpopular views wo n't be made illegal say , because the fact that there 's one member of parliament wo n't mean that
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