Example sentences of "so long as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 2 | Never mind where so long as it is a public space . |
| 3 | So long as it remains in this room , he wrote , it is not finished . |
| 4 | So long as we have language , he argued , we simply can not conceive it . |
| 5 | Wetland plants will be in their element , so long as they are given generous mulches to keep the moisture in . |
| 6 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 7 | After the birth , intercourse can begin again as soon as you feel ready and so long as you do n't feel any discomfort . |
| 8 | But as one said , ‘ so long as you 're not reading that bloody sociology ’ . |
| 9 | In the world of an inside ethnography as Favret-Saada identifies , ‘ one is never able to choose between subjectivism and the objective method as it was taught ’ ( ibid. 23 ) , so long as one wishes to find out answers which , in traditional ethnography , are often missing from the finite corpus of empirical observation . |
| 10 | So long as I stuck to squawks and Pretty fucking Polly , I was fine ? |
| 11 | ‘ So long as we get him out ’ — Cameron was still cagey . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing is enough , so long as we have no hand in government . ’ |
| 13 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 14 | So long as your people will take them food . |
| 15 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 16 | ‘ So long as we are not like generals to them . ’ |
| 17 | So long as we adopt a broadly ‘ functionalist ’ philosophy of mind — in which mental states are defined in terms of their causal relations to sensory inputs , motor outputs and to one another — this ‘ computational theory of the mind ’ is a very satisfying general account of the mind-body relationship . |
| 18 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 19 | You may say , against this , that there can surely be some form of appearance/reality distinction so long as the input systems can deliver up information about such objective facts as occlusion . |
| 20 | Moreover , we showed , in a small study , that non-conservers of length will say that a one-inch and a ten-inch stick are the same length so long as their tips are on a level . |
| 21 | This is not the case in non- autistic mentally handicapped children , who do well on false belief tasks so long as their mental age , by other criteria , is above three years . |
| 22 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 23 | But the sunrise of impending suicide bathes him and others in fiery metaphysical comedy ; , ‘ be as free as you like , ’ Peter Verkhovensky tells him , ‘ so long as you do n't change your mind ’ — that is ‘ so long as your entirely free intention is carried out ’ . |
| 24 | But the sunrise of impending suicide bathes him and others in fiery metaphysical comedy ; , ‘ be as free as you like , ’ Peter Verkhovensky tells him , ‘ so long as you do n't change your mind ’ — that is ‘ so long as your entirely free intention is carried out ’ . |
| 25 | Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ . |
| 26 | For ‘ the game ’ was one that everyone played , and that was all right so long as you took your losses without squealing . |
| 27 | Mr Skinner insisted : ‘ There will always be a need for socialism , whether in Britain or anywhere else , so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes , so long as we have a system which allows the poor countries of the world to hand over $50m to the rich . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Skinner insisted : ‘ There will always be a need for socialism , whether in Britain or anywhere else , so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes , so long as we have a system which allows the poor countries of the world to hand over $50m to the rich . ’ |
| 29 | Chicken 's feet used to give the lie to my bravura claim to Eat Anything , so long as it was recently dead . |
| 30 | He also said that the Prince and Princess of Wales would not make a planned visit to China in November ‘ so long as those responsible for the atrocities over the past weekend remain in control of the Chinese government ’ . |