Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [noun] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 2 | So long as people can walk out of a room and say they have decided to leave on their terms , they retain their dignity . |
| 3 | So long as people can milk the benefits of contracting out , but still return when the gains run out , the Government is in a heads they win , tails we lose situation . |
| 4 | ‘ Everything collapsed so quickly but things can change for the better in just as short a space a time . |
| 5 | The publication of a statement of compliance with the code , reviewed by the auditors so far as compliance can be objectively verified , is to be made a listing requirement by the Stock Exchange . |
| 6 | Parliamentary sovereignty is still intact in so far as Parliament can still repeal the act committing us to entry . |
| 7 | They confer a right to the ‘ equity ’ in the company and , in so far as members can be said to own the company , the ordinary shareholders are its proprietors , It is they who bear the lion 's share of the risk and they who in good years take the lion 's share of the profits ( after the directors and managers have been remunerated ) . |
| 8 | where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract , he is , so far as money can do it , to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages , as if the contract had been performed . |
| 9 | … the common law says that the damages due either for breach of contract or for tort are damages which , so far as money can compensate will give the injured party reparation for the wrongful act ( Admiralty Commissioners v SS Susquehanna [ 1926 ] AC 655 at p661 ) . |