Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] one [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One would also tend to accept verbatim reports of judicial court proceedings , evidence given before special committees of enquiry , so long as one can genuinely believe that the people keeping the record were quite impartial and skilled in their work and that all they took down has been printed without editing . |
| 2 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 3 | But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room . |
| 4 | His attempts failed , and he came to the conclusion that the best that could be achieved was to specify , so far as one could , which observation statements were implied by which non-observation statements ( see the preface to Carnap , 1967 , and Quine , 1969 , p. 77 ) . |
| 5 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 6 | In so far as one can single out a starting-point in Althusser 's exposition , it is Marx 's critique of homo oeconomicus . |
| 7 | It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile . |
| 8 | So far as one can tell from the scanty evidence available they had been something short of that . |
| 9 | So far as one can judge , the women 's resistance movement was formed towards the end of June 1910 , that is while talks were still inconclusive , and before the events reported above led the management of Neill 's and Morrison & Gibb 's to sign the memorial . |
| 10 | It is an undistinguished spit of land , barely afloat so far as one can see , but it has in its time hosted some very high-level exchanges of civilities and even persons between the two countries . |
| 11 | Others would admit , indeed require , that higher education should embody rationality , and in so far as one can believe or practice that , it becomes a cultural pattern . |
| 12 | ‘ One intervenes to protect competition , to ensure so far as one can that competition continues to exist in the marketplace . |
| 13 | ‘ So far as one can understand it , ’ says Freddie . |
| 14 | They uniformly show young , narrow-shouldered , and in so far as one can see through the draperies , narrow-hipped , flat-chested women with long pale hands which have clearly never done a stroke of work . |
| 15 | ‘ And , so far as one can tell , he regretted it ever after . ’ |
| 16 | Merulo 's Canzoni … fatte alla Francese ( 1592 , 1606 , and 1611 ) treat their originals , so far as one can trace them , with great freedom of keyboard texture . |
| 17 | Language is not just the means of communication in literature , but , in so far as one can say literature has a content , language in all its opacity is also the content of literature . |
| 18 | In fact , in so far as one can detect a firm line in his early Algerian policy , it was a policy which aimed to achieve association — i.e. cooperation between France and a more autonomous but not fully independent Algeria . |
| 19 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 20 | Things , George said eventually , were going so smoothly that one should expect disaster any time now , eh ? |
| 21 | Well i it 's becoming slightly unfair because Watsons is n't on the stand , Watsons would also you know probably spell out in a little bit more detail , but their advice was comprehensive that there were Inland Revenue rules that it would put the tru and so on and one would want to s to say that tha that as well , but I do want to move on . |