Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] they are " in BNC.

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1 But there are many teachers in many schools who feel the need to break out of the cycle of crisis management and low morale so keenly that they are prepared to make those commitments .
2 On the other hand , felids digest the molars of their prey so effectively that they are extreme members of category 5 or even could be put into another category , 6 , on their own ( Fig. 3. 21D-E ) .
3 Wetland plants will be in their element , so long as they are given generous mulches to keep the moisture in .
4 A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death .
5 Mr Hunt said of the changes in the poll tax rules for teenagers : ‘ A new wider exemption will apply to all young adults under the age of 20 for so long as they are still at school or in full-time further — though not higher -education . ’
6 Self-contradiction is natural in the human make-up ; inconsistencies are not worrying in themselves , so long as they are n't planted by memoir-writers or biographers putting down other biographers .
7 Anyone can do it so long as they are not criminals or kids , and promise to play by the rules .
8 The master is liable for wrongful acts and defaults of his servant — though they may be unauthorized or even forbidden by him — so long as they are done within the scope of the employment .
9 Detached garages with a floor area of less than 30sq m ( 325sq ft ) are exempt from control , so long as they are constructed wholly of non-combustible material ( which most garages are ) , or are more than 1m from the boundary in the case of wooden buildings .
10 The House of Lords held that parental rights are recognised in law only for so long as they are needed for the protection of the child .
11 So long as they are on a well-drained surface above ground-water level , moisture from above will not harm them , and clamps may be built outside anywhere sheltered from strong winds .
12 Deer can be hunted , for example , whatever the reason , and nothing wrong is done so long as they are not overhunted .
13 In my experience , babies are remarkably placid through all sorts of family rows , so long as they are warm and well fed ; while they will infallibly disrupt the most harmonious scene if they have a pain . ’
14 Most ceremonies take place in a synagogue , but can be performed anywhere so long as they are under a chuppah ( wedding canopy ) .
15 His view is that consumers should be told the whole truth : ‘ If the public wants fish fingers made up of minced fish that 's OK , so long as they are told and can make up their own minds .
16 They are water-based products which dry fairly quickly , and they can be washed off tools and hands with water so long as they are still wet .
17 Third , from a methodological perspective , perspective , mentalistic accounts are seen as valid so long as they are closely tied to observations , so that any proposed link between behaviour and underlying knowledge is subject to rigorous scrutiny and ultimately to falsification through additional empirical enquiry ( see Figure 5.1 ) .
18 Museum curators are the richest — so long as they are government-funded
19 While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’
20 The rest are harder to get registered — designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and dubbed jubilee kiosks , they were mass-produced until 1968 — but they are likely to survive so long as they are in good condition and in ‘ heritage locations ’ ( that is , near the house of somebody ready to give BT a hard time if it tries to take them away ) .
21 Institutions are viewed as expressions of collective purposes which maintain vitality so long as they are able to maintain a clear sense of purpose .
22 We do not object to women working the keyboards , so long as they are paid the same wages as men .
23 On the other hand , we can not say that people are making up their minds for themselves so long as they are largely unaware of the influences that are playing upon them , and so long as those influences are not essentially diverse and competitive , but generally combine to push their thinking , their attitudes and feelings in a single direction .
24 So long as they are stimulated by low-frequency nervous impulses , such muscles can respond directly to stretching .
25 So long as they are not excluded candidates having " too few " votes must be allowed to collect if they can enough transferred votes to bring them up to the quota .
26 Health Authority do cause such measures ( including , if so required to prolong his life , artificial ventilation ) to be applied to [ J. ] for so long as they are capable of prolonging his life .
27 The order which he in fact made was against the health authority requiring it to ‘ cause such measures ( including , if so required to prolong his life , artificial ventilation ) to be applied to [ the child ] for so long as they are capable of prolonging his life . ’
28 The purpose of looking at Hansard will not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear .
29 I do n't necessarily has to be a mother and father I think , so long as they are good role models that they have .
30 So long as they are kept busy in Port-au-Prince until the morning , we can continue with only minor alterations . ’
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