Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 2 | They were even willing to occupy pre-moulded nests so long as they could carry out their normal movements before laying . |
| 3 | As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines . |
| 4 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |
| 5 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 6 | We knew we were safe , so long as they could n't spot individuals and target them for later , and in the darkness the Danuese let the malais know what they thought of them . |
| 7 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 8 | Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ . |
| 9 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 10 | So long as it could prevent news of discontent travelling from one region to another and igniting a bush-fire of revolt , the Party was able to restore its control relatively quickly and with little loss of life . |
| 11 | No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip . |
| 12 | Nobody destroys me , and nobody was going to destroy Johnnie so long as I could sit by his bed — some of his family tried to stop me — and will my life force into him . ’ |
| 13 | He felt warm and solid , safe , and , so long as she could n't see the mockery that sometimes filled his eyes , she could pretend , could n't she ? |
| 14 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 15 | She was perfectly happy to live like a student twenty years after art college , anything so long as she could paint . |
| 16 | In fact I mean you can buy or I mean you 've got the record of erm how far back , you could invite all the existing , living parish councillors , so far as we could , and , and that , that would be , I think that would be fascinating . |
| 17 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |
| 18 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |
| 19 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 20 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 21 | Thus when determining what contracts fall within or outside the ambit of s 3 , issues of reasonableness , equality of bargaining power and the possibility of negotiation are in fact not very relevant , except in so far as they could move a judge to finding that terms were standard or not in borderline cases . |
| 22 | His attempts failed , and he came to the conclusion that the best that could be achieved was to specify , so far as one could , which observation statements were implied by which non-observation statements ( see the preface to Carnap , 1967 , and Quine , 1969 , p. 77 ) . |
| 23 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 24 | The Hepburns proved hardly more reliable , but did keep a hold on the castle and — so far as anyone could keep a hold on such a region — the lordship of Liddesdale . |
| 25 | They had come , so far as she could tell , west and north , perhaps far enough north to turn west , that was all . |
| 26 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 27 | Molly asked Louise when the men were talking , so far as she could hear , about the rat race . |
| 28 | The others , in so far as she could recover her feelings of the time , seemed to have involved love — inflammation of the senses , certainly . |
| 29 | No one , so far as she could tell , hugged the doorways , folded into the shadows . |
| 30 | Well , he was certainly in a good mood , and no sign so far as she could see that he had been drinking what Matey called ‘ his nasty whisky ’ , so she prepared herself to play him . |