Example sentences of "but so [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The game against Marseille will now be a battle but so long as we have someone like Andy Goram behind us , we feel solid .
2 ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them .
3 Many knitters worry about damaging their machines if they break the rules , but so long as you allow the machine to guide you , you should n't damage it .
4 They want rearing and all that , they want to rear you see but so long as you get them settled and stand on them do anything , keep them down .
5 I do n't know , but so long as I can cure the disease I do n't much care !
6 Hodge did not deem Rhee essential to a future government but so long as he remained one of the few nationally known leaders , his cooperation was required .
7 The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury .
8 Well , it 's all Greek to me , but so long as it keeps him happy . ’
9 A lot of people ran away with the idea that they were Pacifists , but so far as he was concerned that was not true .
10 But so far as I 'm concerned , Fedorov is the more important ; do n't do anything to prejudice our chances of taking him . ’
11 Britain 's former world sports car champion Brundle said last night : ‘ I 've heard the stories , but so far as I 'm concerned they 're just that — stories and rumour .
12 But so far as I know they have never been reprinted , and I have let slip from my memory now the name of the author ( a salutary warning against undue pride for those of us writing today ) .
13 He was immensely well-read on political history in the nineteenth century and more recent times , and he deployed a memory of fantastic accuracy , but so far as I could judge he had read virtually nothing else .
14 The identification is often questioned , but so far as I can see on no adequate grounds .
15 Lithium batteries are even better , but so far as I know are only available in PP3 size .
16 I am open to contradiction , but so far as I understand , the Association as such , played no direct part either in the recent increases in apprentices ' salaries , which were reviewed automatically , nor in the revival of their indenture , which is the result of a tortuous and painfully slow consideration by the Law Society .
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