Example sentences of "so [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voice not so loud as Great Spotted . |
| 2 | Drums fairly often in spring , not so loud as Great Spotted , but lasting longer , two seconds , with 10–30 blows . |
| 3 | Calls ‘ teu ’ , ‘ teeoo ’ , ‘ chik ’ , etc. not so loud as other shanks , also a liquid twittering trill . |
| 4 | So long as international affairs were left to the uncontrolled interplay of nation states , mutual suspicion would generate arms races which , in turn , would generate wars . |
| 5 | Au these possibilities are recognized in EC competition policy , and are given exemption from Article 85 so long as certain safeguards are in place . |
| 6 | Its distribution in space becomes more and more contorted by the velocity fluctuations , but so long as molecular diffusion plays no role , the marked fluid is always just the same fluid . |
| 7 | So long as criminological theory drew from ahistorical empirical data from the United States and Europe it was possible to construct theories relatively consistent with the available evidence . |
| 8 | So long as political elites are capable of providing policy leadership , the roles and behaviour of public agency administrators are simple . |
| 9 | Indeed , so long as total pleasure just outweighs total pain an ever increasing population is likely to be a more effective way of increasing happiness than making life better for each individual . |
| 10 | So long as other leaders do not follow Dubček 's example , Moscow can be confident of dealing with known quantities in its client states and of possessing means to manipulate factional rivalries to its own advantage . |
| 11 | For example , if he learnt that the patient was a Jehovah 's Witness , but had no evidence of a refusal to accept blood transfusions , he would avoid or postpone any blood transfusion so long as possible . |
| 12 | And there is plenty to read and write even when there is strict censorship and the theatres are closed , so long as trustworthy domestic service gives one the time . |
| 13 | As Sir Patrick Geddes , an early sociologist , commented in 1904 : ‘ Whether , under favourable circumstances and the rare public spirit of private owners , much can be done , or to any wide extent , so long as absolute individual ownership in land and ground values is allowed , seems to me very doubtful . ’ |
| 14 | So long as religious music and sophisticated secular music shared the common techniques of imitative polyphony they naturally preserved a relationship the closeness of which is demonstrated by the numerous paraphrase Masses based on madrigals or chansons . |
| 15 | That prospect is anyway slight so long as Soviet-American cosiness continues and Iraq 's war machine remains broken . |
| 16 | Socialist proponents of the use of markets do not suggest that markets can simply be retained , so long as private ownership of the means of production is abolished . |
| 17 | From as early as 1708 most Tories were pushing for peace , so long as suitable terms could be reached with France . |
| 18 | So long as full employment was sustained by government policy , wage inflation was a natural consequence . |
| 19 | It is entirely in accordance with common sense , so long as common sense is intelligently applied . |
| 20 | So long as parliamentary sovereignty remains " the one fundamental law " of the Constitution , there is no way in which substantive rights can be entrenched and put beyond the reach of Parliament . |
| 21 | Clearly , so long as ministerial assurances are honoured , rate-capping can deliver only very limited reductions in total local authority expenditure . |
| 22 | American officials generously agree that there is nothing wrong with government schemes to spend money on PCs , so long as foreign firms have a fair chance to bid for orders . |
| 23 | Gen Noreiga said last Friday that Panama considered itself at war with the US so long as American aggression against Panamanians continued . |
| 24 | Such prejudices will flourish so long as hard facts are unavailable , and facts about sex in schools are practically non-existent because no education authority is likely to commission research on the subject . |
| 25 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 26 | This probably represents the future , at any rate so long as petroleum-led growth continues to provide opportunities for differentiation . |
| 27 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 28 | Tea and coffee may be drunk freely if drunk black , or may be drunk white so long as skimmed milk allowance is not exceeded . |
| 29 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 30 | The poet 's claim that he will readily participate in any form of stability his lover settles on is accompanied by the qualification that he will do so only as long as ‘ this wearied ghost ’ dwells in him . |