Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She was saying so forcibly when the telephone interrupted her .
2 Express mention of the beneficial owner covenants will imply on the part of the assignor that the terms of the lease with regard to maintenance , decoration and repair have been complied with ; this may not be so especially if the husband has been absent from the property for some time ( see generally Butler v Mountview Estates [ 1951 ] 2 KB 563 ) .
3 So obviously when the war finished there was tremendous demand .
4 So obviously if a cook goes , a cook has to be replaced , if a care assistant goes , a care assistant has to be replaced , as long as the population is there .
5 It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin .
6 ‘ I ca n't remember what it 's like to be drunk , ’ said O'Toole some years after taking the pledge , ‘ it 's so long since a drink passed my lips .
7 And so long as a transaction falls within the scope of an activity set out in the objects clause ( ’ manufacturing ’ , ‘ property development ’ , and so on ) it will be authorised .
8 Lear is now experiencing the truth of La Rochefoucauld 's maxim that ‘ So long as a man is still in a position to help others he will rarely encounter ingratitude . ’
9 Those days have gone only so long as a Government are in power who are determined to continue a regime of common sense and reasonable and balanced industrial relations .
10 The justification supposes that so long as a person is possessed of a right , that right may be exercised regardless of the consequences for others .
11 So long as a majority of Northern Ireland voters prefer to remain with the United Kingdom , we must concentrate our energies on protection for those on whom the terrorists wage war .
12 So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism .
13 So long as a head of state — and thus his circle of patronage — can change quite unexpectedly , multi-country regional groupings will have to overcome major political as well as economic problems .
14 So long as a fissure is known to exist between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor about the ERM , the task of convincing the financial markets that policy is in safe hands will be made infinitely more difficult .
15 So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them .
16 The sickle lasted for so long as a harvesting tool for this very reason : it was still used in preference to the swap-hook and scythe in some areas because its use , although slower , conserved the grain .
17 Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field .
18 Therefore , only so long as a woman is in labour shall he give up Israel ; and then those that survive of his race shall rejoin their brethren .
19 So long as a tiger stands still or moves slowly , its stripes make it practically invisible in the jungle or among reeds .
20 Articles 85 and 86 of Table A ( prescribed pursuant to the Companies Act 1985 ) provide that so long as a director has disclosed his interest to the company , he may be a party to or interested in any transaction , and shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the company for any benefit he receives from such a transaction .
21 Just so long as no emergency came up …
22 The company may suffer because , as we have seen , unless such rights have been most carefully drafted , they will not come into operation so long as no action regarding registration is taken by the personal representative and because , if the company had only two members and directors , the death of one may mean that no quorate meetings can be held , and the company may face a petition to wind it up .
23 So long as no food 's going in , our soldiers do n't mind allowing an extra mouth or two into the city .
24 So long as an apparatchik continued to be invited to join the Ceauşescus at play , even the ceaseless rotation of offices could not disguise his continuing status as one of the leaders .
25 So long as an account 's written down somewhere , no one 's going to fuss about the details .
26 Nevertheless , both Weber and the interactionists did think it was possible to produce causal explanations of human behaviour so long as an understanding of meanings formed part of those explanations .
27 The effect of s7(2) and ( 3 ) is that the other implied terms can not be excluded or restricted at all where the buyer deals as a consumer ; they can be excluded outside of consumer supply transactions so long as the supplier can show that such an exclusion is fair and reasonable .
28 But so long as the company 's objective is maximum profits , a concern with the welfare of third parties is necessarily an instrumental one : it is a means of protecting profitability in the long term .
29 ‘ Theoretically , yes , but that 's unlikely to happen so long as the company is successful and the shareholders approve of the way it 's run . ’
30 So long as the army is loyal , the regime will survive .
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