Example sentences of "[coord] only so long as " in BNC.
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1 | The environmental conditions with which the system is in equilibrium may shift , and only so long as the equilibrium can be set at new and workable positions can the species survive . |
2 | Citizens of the United Kingdom do , however , have an individual right of access to the European enforcement agencies whether Her Majesty 's government likes it or not , so long that is , and only so long as that government continues to accede to the Convention and the jurisdiction of the machinery which it establishes . |
3 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
4 | Learning is a ‘ free commodity ’ , but only so long as we are thinking of knowledge as a source of intrinsic , expressive rewards . |
5 | Conti 's opinion was that reconciliation could be achieved , but only so long as the Scriptures were understood to speak the language of common people . |