Example sentences of "[adv] long as [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 2 | Not so long as we 've got the stuff . |
| 3 | Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) An applicant shall not be treated as having failed to comply with subsection ( 2 ) ( b ) above if the notice is , without any fault or intention of his , removed , obscured or defaced before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered , so long as he has taken reasonable steps for its protection and , if need be , replacement . |
| 5 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number . |
| 8 | So long as I 've got somebody now there 's nobody along here . |
| 9 | You 've lost your ships , you 've lost your friends in Ireland , you 've lost the Lady Emma and the active support of the Pope , but you 're still strong enough to stop Harald of Norway from using you as a base , and you 're no threat to Wessex so long as you get rid of those Normans . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’ |
| 11 | SO LONG AS YOU 'VE GOT YOUR ELF , THAT 'S THE MAIN THING ! |
| 12 | That 's capitalism and you , so long as you 've got buyers and sellers you get this antagonism of interest between buyers and sellers . |
| 13 | If they are lost or stolen , you can recover their value so long as you have kept a note of their numbers separately . |
| 14 | That Madam , Gary used to say , she 's been forty for as long as we 've known her . |
| 15 | Whatever we want from our lives now — the Booker Prize , a recording contract , a promotion , a Porsche convertible , the girl at the Virgin Megastore checkout desk — we can not possibly have coveted it for as long as we have cherished dreams of football glory , dreams which have remained fundamentally unchanged since childhood . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ For as long as I 've had memories and before that too . |
| 18 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
| 19 | I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that . |
| 20 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 21 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |