Example sentences of "[adv] long as it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 2 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 3 | Writing a doctorate on the British response to the church conflict in Nazi Germany , I was well aware that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had refused to grant that the established national Protestant Church was in fact a Christian church so long as it refused to ordain people who were racially Jewish . |
| 4 | There 's also a guy called Ron Tyson who collects every magazine article ever written about Hendrix … so long as it 's got Hendrix on the front cover . |
| 5 | I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number . |
| 6 | A spokesman said the seven Kurds released from Haslar detention centre , near Gosport , Hampshire , and all 18 from Gloucester Prison were given temporary admission ‘ for as long as it takes to assess their cases ’ . |
| 7 | With its inflation still rising , the country on the verge of a perilous wage-price spiral and public finances deeply in the red , the Bundesbank has made it clear that it will keep the German economy locked in a vice of high interest rates for as long as it takes to squeeze out inflation . |
| 8 | He said that was last Friday , oh I said I was filling my timesheet in and my expense sheet , not that long , I said well it takes as long as it takes do n't it ? |
| 9 | The heating is switched on only for as long as it takes to dry the washing . |
| 10 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 11 | He said the atmosphere at each gathering had been one of calm , loving concern , and this would continue for as long as it took to get the children home . |
| 12 | ‘ Again , I lived with Mike for as long as it took to get the divorce and then I arranged the wedding . |