Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents with an existing mortgage are eligible , so long as they still own a large enough chunk of the equity . |
| 2 | ‘ Anyone can say they have no quarrel with people so long as they always get their own way . ’ |
| 3 | We succumbed to temptation once , Bernard , but I 'm sure Mary will forgive just so long as we never , ever do it again . ’ |
| 4 | Right , so long as we then strike yellow , we can put it in . |
| 5 | ‘ So long as he still has silver to pay us with , ’ Flodwig said . |
| 6 | But his risk is slight so long as he promptly obtains registration of the transfer . |
| 7 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 8 | I do n't mind , I do n't mind so long as I just get out a bit on , into town and |
| 9 | To be non-envious means to be quite happy if the other player wins just as much money as you do , so long as you both thereby win more from the banker . |
| 10 | So long as you okay the pay-off , of course . |
| 11 | But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent . |
| 12 | That is , previous readers would have grasped the play in Freeman 's terms , in so far as they validly comprehended it , but they would not have been aware of so doing , meantime foolishly talking of it in irrelevant , non-explanatory , " folk " ways . |
| 13 | Black sportsmen are not exceptional in so far as they too undergo the turbulence of having to refashion their ideas about career and , indeed , life prospects at around this age . |
| 14 | The very machines of this period , iron and brass filed and polished with the hand of love , in perfect working order after a century ( in so far as they still survive ) , are a visual demonstration of this . |
| 15 | The treatment of Abdulkerim by Katib Celebi and his followers is consistent ( and interesting ) in so far as they rightly , one believes , place his Muftilik in the time of Mehmed II , in accordance with the and as opposed to the view of the unmodified traditional account ; but on the assumption that the available texts of Katib Celebi and Hezarfen are accurate , the writers connected with the Katib Celebi view appear to differ amongst themselves about the nature and timing of his Muftilik , possibly because Katib Celebi " s list is particularly cryptic and , at first sight , confused at this point . |
| 16 | In so far as she possibly can , she lets this great dull store of words speak for themselves , without addition to their number . |
| 17 | The history of the Ottoman Empire , for example , is only dealt with here in so far as it immediately affects non-Turkish Europe . |
| 18 | ‘ In so far as I ever had snake hips , they have gone since I came here . ’ |
| 19 | Surfaces are unavoidable too , except in so far as you quickly learn to eliminate them from what you consciously hear . |
| 20 | It sounded unconvincing then , and it sounds the more so now as they nervously reassure the markets that no further interest rate cuts are planned . |
| 21 | Belief in the power of such plants can be traced back to the time of the Druids ; it was certainly part of the belief system of the Celtic peoples , and although it may not be voiced so explicitly as it once was , yet the custom of planting and preserving this special tree is still continued by some people . |