Example sentences of "so [adv] as [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of his views in the 1840s he wrote : " We were now much less democrats than I had been , because so long as education continues to be so wretchedly imperfect , we dreaded the ignorance and especially the selfishness and brutality of the mass … " ( p. 138 ) |
| 2 | In turn , such attitudes must inevitably remain indeterminate , so long as history has more roads down which to stumble . |
| 3 | So long as heterosexism continues , it will continue to spawn separatism . |
| 4 | At last , thanks to safer sex , it is almost trendy to admit to self-abuse so long as porn had nothing to do with it . |
| 5 | In a population confined to a particular habitat competition for limited resources is an inevitable feature of life so long as reproduction occurs . |
| 6 | Competition for limited resources is an inevitable feature of life so long as reproduction occurs in the context of finite supplies . |
| 7 | There seemed no hope of removing the National Government so long as division continued . " |
| 8 | Big business remained dominant in the economy — so long as prosperity continued . |
| 9 | To follow Cole that far would come perilously near to accepting that Co-operation was , as nearly as makes no difference , the Consumers ' Movement ; and that its future lay in further growth beyond that already achieved by 1939 until , so long as progress continued , it could within its chosen field have virtually displaced all competing provision and all competing manufacture for the purpose of provision . |
| 10 | Masculinity can be problematized , even feminized , so long as homosexuality remains as its defining other . |
| 11 | So long as demand stays at 1,000 units , no net investment will take place . |
| 12 | From time to time there have arisen political factions whose leaders have sought to base their power on the doctrine that there can be no peace and prosperity on earth so long as mankind harbours religious thoughts and worships ‘ gods ’ . |
| 13 | The media is free to publish and be damned , so long as damnation comes after , and not before , the word gets out . |
| 14 | It remains to be seen whether this suggestion will become law , but the only really confident prediction must be that so long as capitalism remains , trusts will continue to change and develop so as to meet changes in social conditions and the tax structure . |
| 15 | recognized that so long as Capitalism continued the alternatives were either a patched-up imperialist peace or an imperialist war . |
| 16 | But over and above that , most Americans in the late eighteenth century believed that , in so far as government had any impact on their lives , it would be local government , it would be the government of their state and not the remote government in Washington which most people in the eighteenth century had never visited or knew anything about erm or li knew little of what it did . |
| 17 | In so far as history aspires to meaning , it is doomed to select regions , periods , groups of men and individuals in these groups and to make them stand out , as discontinuous figures , against a continuity barely good enough to be used as a backdrop . |
| 18 | In so far as schooling proved too " mechanical " a procedure for influencing the pupils ' subjectivities in the approved manner , efforts were also made to influence home life in a more direct fashion . |
| 19 | In so far as decorum allows I have tried to do so myself , and at some cost to my reputation for a sympathetic bedside manner . |
| 20 | In the case of a company limited by shares , normally the only liability imposed on a shareholder as such will be to pay up the nominal value of the shares and any premium in so far as payment has not already been made by a previous holder . |
| 21 | True , what he had felt for Kee was at the time a stronger passion , and so far as charm went they could n't be compared . |
| 22 | payments of capital do not attract inheritance tax liability , except in so far as income earned by the fund has not been paid out . |
| 23 | There do not appear to have been any empirical studies which have looked for an increase in the amount of information reflected in share prices as a result of the commencement of trading in index futures ( except in so far as volatility reflects information ; see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 24 | In literate society , these interlocking conversations go on ; but they are no longer man 's only dialogue ; and in so far as writing provides an alternative source for the transmission of cultural orientations it favours awareness of inconsistency . |
| 25 | Both make-ups can be available at the same time and , so far as value goes , there is nothing to choose between them . |
| 26 | We are , says Derrida , still inside structuralism in so far as structuralism constitutes ‘ an adventure of vision , a conversion in the way of putting questions to any object ’ ( Derrida 1978 : 3 ) . |
| 27 | In so far as socialism means the collective ownership and management of the economy and social relations , it requires an extensive administrative apparatus . |
| 28 | In any event , residence of some kind was the hallmark of establishment in so far as establishment involved economic integration in the host member state of a kind that was greater than that which arose from the provision of a cross-border service . |