Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just says that we have to make the the call for nominations so long before we put out the selection ballot . |
| 2 | It 's not so long since we learned the link between eating certain ‘ E ’ numbers and the behaviour of highly disruptive children . |
| 3 | ‘ We would not have stayed with this product so long if we did not believe there was potential to make at least £20 million annual profit from it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 4 | So long as we have language , he argued , we simply can not conceive it . |
| 5 | ‘ So long as we get him out ’ — Cameron was still cagey . |
| 6 | ‘ Nothing is enough , so long as we have no hand in government . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So long as we are not like generals to them . ’ |
| 8 | So long as we adopt a broadly ‘ functionalist ’ philosophy of mind — in which mental states are defined in terms of their causal relations to sensory inputs , motor outputs and to one another — this ‘ computational theory of the mind ’ is a very satisfying general account of the mind-body relationship . |
| 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 | Mr Skinner insisted : ‘ There will always be a need for socialism , whether in Britain or anywhere else , so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes , so long as we have a system which allows the poor countries of the world to hand over $50m to the rich . ’ |
| 11 | Just so long as we maintain the candidacy . ’ |
| 12 | To the public , subordinating national interests to Europe 's requirements is of small account , so long as we sustain competitive sport . |
| 13 | So long as we have heat , water , and reciprocal motion , then we shall also have ‘ horse power ’ . ’ |
| 14 | Never , so long as we lived , he said , were we to mention to anyone , not our next-of-kin , not even those in other sections of the Station , what was the nature of our work . |
| 15 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 16 | Similarly , in the same year , John Wilson wrote : ‘ So long as we are concerned to turn out pupils who are good middle-class boys or skilled technicians [ then we are not really concerned with education but with training ] . |
| 17 | These should , on the face of things , be the most reliable sources , so long as we can trust the writer . |
| 18 | So long as we looked upon the production of value and the value of the product of capital individually , the bodily form of the commodities produced was wholly immaterial for the analysis , whether it was machines , for instance , corn , or looking glasses . |
| 19 | He believed as Lionel Curtis did that Indians ' souls had to be renovated before they were fit to govern : he deeply shocked the American journalist William Shirer by announcing that ‘ Self-government … is inconceivable and unattainable without the removal of untouchability , as it also is without Hindu-Moslem unity … we shall be unfit to gain independence so long as we keep in bondage a fifth of the population of Hindustan . ’ |
| 20 | So long as we learn something from every mistake we make , time has n't been wasted . |
| 21 | She liked us to keep to our promise , but quite understood if the children were ill , or something else cropped up , and we got behind — so long as we let her know immediately . |
| 22 | ‘ Some have praised our style and said it does n't matter if we go down , so long as we keep playing football . |
| 23 | So long as we are dealing with materials which are approximately elastic and approximately homogeneous this is virtually the whole story as far as strength and brittleness are concerned . |
| 24 | At first it was men who were not allowed into the house and although this position resulted in a lot of criticism and ridicule , most feminists had some sympathy so long as we did n't seriously advocate separatism for all women . |
| 25 | Of course this reduces our heating bills and keeps us warm and comfortable … so long as we do n't create too much moisture for the air to cope with . |
| 26 | This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) . |
| 27 | Learning is a ‘ free commodity ’ , but only so long as we are thinking of knowledge as a source of intrinsic , expressive rewards . |
| 28 | In analysing this argument , Hirschi ( 1973 , p. 171 ) concludes that ‘ Sociology will suffer … so long as we believe that our assumptions guarantee truth , while their assumptions guarantee error , whatever the facts may be ’ . |
| 29 | So long as we think that good must be identical with some one natural property we can not but suppose that all good things have some such property in common . |
| 30 | However , even if things go badly , so long as we survive as partly rational creatures we should always be able to find some satisfaction in understanding our situation and doing what reason points to as the most effective way of dealing with it . |