Example sentences of "so [adv] as [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will grow good cereal crops so long as soil structure is maintained by the return of sufficient organic matter . |
| 2 | Western agencies are very envious of Mossad because it relies not on huge arrays of computerised technology but on a small group of efficient and dedicated men and women who are not bothered by any form of morality so long as Israel benefits . |
| 3 | So long as land prices and interest rates remain astronomically high , few will be in a position to buy a holding , however small , with any prospect of their capital paying them a living through genuine farming ( as opposed to exploitation or ‘ mining ’ ) . |
| 4 | Provided always that nothing in these restrictions shall preclude Norwich Union from processing any proposal or application form made and dated prior to 31 October 1990 submitted through the Winchester Group or any of its company representatives and entering into any investment contract on the basis of any such a proposal or application form so long as Norwich Union has first satisfied itself that : — ( a ) any such proposal or application form is genuinely made and dated prior to 31 October 1990 ; ( b ) any such proposal or application form is accompanied by a fact find form ; and ( c ) that the fact find form has been fully completed ; and ( d ) that the information shown thereon is sufficient to show that the proposed investment contract which is the subject of the proposal or application form is in the best interests of the investor concerned . |
| 5 | So long as selection policies did not come under scrutiny this was acceptable . |
| 6 | A statement warned : ‘ So long as the SDLP continue to exercise a veto on political progress in Ulster , courtesy of IRA violence , and so long as Sinn Fein/IRA continue to act as the military wing of Irish nationalism , then so long will our war against them continue and intensify . ’ |
| 7 | So long as HMI monitor and control the standards of the inspections , the changes proposed will bring many positive benefits . |
| 8 | So long as frontier zones of the empire remained insecure , the tsar had to eschew an ambitious foreign policy . |
| 9 | Tensions over the degree to which hopes for peace could be invested in the processes of inter-state relations were already familiar to pre-1914 pacifists , and they will continue to exercise peace activists so long as nation states exist . |
| 10 | From the above we can see that so long as investment goods , particularly fixed assets , are being produced on an increased scale the effect on business conditions is favourable . |
| 11 | There is no need for taxes , subsidies and public provision ; and so long as property rights already exist , there is no need for energetic policies aimed at shifting them around . |
| 12 | At the level of loans , there seems little real obstacle to rapid progress , so long as multimedia publishers do not prohibit loans through their conditions of sale . |
| 13 | Informed sources say neither the more realistically-minded East German leaders nor the Russians believe that any sensible changes can be brought about so long as Mr Honecker , 77 , whose attitudes have become particularly rigid in recent months , is at the helm . |
| 14 | So long as East Germany kept its Czech border open , any evacuation of would-be emigrants from the embassy was only a temporary solution , signalling to still more East Germans that a conduit to the West existed . |
| 15 | These timings will hold so long as wait times exceed processing times , which is often true . |
| 16 | This theory sees the unemployed person as continuing the job search ( that is , remaining unemployed ) so long as wage offers are less than a certain ‘ reservation wage ’ . |
| 17 | This may be the inescapable question for the foreseeable future so long as NATO procurement policy is predicated on highly trained work forces , scarce materials and sophisticated machine tools . |
| 18 | SO LONG as Saddam Hussein is still around , George Bush repeated this week , Iraq can expect no mercy on trade sanctions . |
| 19 | So far as Government Bills are concerned , it is no exaggeration to say that the substantial task of legislating will have been largely discharged before the Bill is even read a first time in the House in which it is introduced ( Bills may normally be introduced in either House , thence proceeding to the other ) . |
| 20 | To put it another way , mothers are by far the most important ‘ significant others ’ so far as housework behaviour is concerned . |
| 21 | So far as state education is concerned , increasingly free rein is being given to this power . |
| 22 | Auguste repressed the traitorous thought that so far as household management went , she would prove like Mr David Copperfield 's ‘ child-wife ’ Dora . |
| 23 | So far as JCT contracts are concerned , a useful publication is their Practice Note No 20 which gives guidance on the appropriate forms to use in particular circumstances . |
| 24 | Few could go so far as Musurus Pasha , who during his thirty-five years as Turkish ambassador in London staffed the embassy entirely with his sons , nephews and sons-in-law ; but even in the most developed states of western Europe and on the eve of the 1914 conflict family influences could still be important . |
| 25 | Also , in so far as price rises are a reflection of business prosperity , they may also favourably affect the opportunity to organise . |
| 26 | So far as UK law is concerned , the real question is the extent to which the Directive will require changes to the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 , the Fair Trading Act 1973 , the Consumer Credit Act 1974 , the UCTA 1977 , the SGA1979 , and the SGSA 1982 . |
| 27 | These subjects slept like short sleepers in so far as sleep efficiency was improved , and deep slow wave sleep was maintained at baseline levels . |
| 28 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 29 | Like clings to like , and in so far as Hilary Frome had friends of his own age — mostly he had followers — those friends were Willis and Quigly . |
| 30 | Indeed , they may be able to help the would-be Texas traveller by uncovering the fact that Philadelphia or New Hampshire may be more productive places to seek a placement to seek a placement so far as child abuse is concerned . |