Example sentences of "[adv] so long as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For ‘ the game ’ was one that everyone played , and that was all right so long as you took your losses without squealing . |
| 2 | But Miss Philimore seems to think she 's all right so long as she 's watched , and it would save me having to look for someone else . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Papa says it 's all right so long as there are other people around . ’ |
| 4 | Furthermore , China has been compelled to accept western technology by that universal and all-powerful human trait , which can be summed up thus : — ‘ Human beings are satisfied with the status quo only so long as nothing more attractive is experienced ’ . |
| 5 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 6 | Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him . |
| 7 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 8 | Academics already in post retain their tenure only so long as they do not move to another university or accept promotion within their present university . |
| 9 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 10 | Learning is a ‘ free commodity ’ , but only so long as we are thinking of knowledge as a source of intrinsic , expressive rewards . |
| 11 | Most of them are interested in education , if at all , only so long as their own children are at school . |
| 12 | The pragmatist might suggest that precision is fine only so long as everyone understands the term : in fact , Pulex irritans is less obviously a flea , than ‘ flea ’ . |
| 13 | A declaration of dominance , of the attitude that had accepted Darwin only so long as his ideas could be misrepresented in shuffling the animal kingdom into a league table with man several steps above its head , almost within touching distance of God . |
| 14 | But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent . |
| 15 | The procedural advantages persisted even at Rome only so long as there were two procedural systems , which at the end of the third century ceased to be the case . |
| 16 | A company can protect information of this kind only so long as it is confidential to the business and not in the public domain . |
| 17 | Just so long as we maintain the candidacy . ’ |
| 18 | Just so long as we understand each other . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Good , ’ he said coldly , ‘ just so long as we understand each other . |
| 20 | We succumbed to temptation once , Bernard , but I 'm sure Mary will forgive just so long as we never , ever do it again . ’ |
| 21 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 22 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 23 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 24 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 25 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 26 | We like to have kings to worship and admire : we love a bit of gold leaf to ooh and ah at : we do n't mind being poor just so long as there 's someone poorer than us . |
| 27 | Even now , gin with ice cold tonic is the spirit I 'd probably choose to take with me to a desert island just so long as there were plenty of lemon groves to hand on my castaway paradise . |
| 28 | I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me . |
| 29 | ‘ Just so long as it does n't get in here . ’ |
| 30 | Just so long as it 's not ‘ gall ’ , ’ Lily said . |