Example sentences of "so [adv] as that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is fine so long as that food is readily available , but it means that the birds are rather vulnerable should there be any changes in circumstances . |
| 3 | I now wanted desperately to belong to the Christian church in general ( which to me , from my Free Church background , was what baptism implied ) while not able to belong specifically to the Anglican Church ( which was what confirmation implied ) so long as that church discriminated against women . |
| 4 | Such pessimistic Conclusions are rejected by pluralist writers , who believe that the political system can be used to bring about any change in society so long as that is what the majority of people desire . |
| 5 | He thought for a moment before adding dryly , ‘ So long as that 's all right with you , Adjudicator ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ So long as that 's understood , ’ said the imp , and shut the door . |
| 7 | So long as that situation continues , the British meat and livestock industry will be placed at a severe competitive disadvantage . |
| 8 | So long as that does not include Whitby and Scarborough and er any settlements to the West of the what is essentially the coast road . |
| 9 | ( a ) Parties By RSC Ord 81 , r1 actions may be brought by and against partners in the name of their firm so long as that firm ( whether plaintiff or defendant ) carries on its business within the jurisdiction of the High Court . |
| 10 | He would be well advised to insist on a written indemnity in that respect to cover both intentional and accidental holding out , and , as regards the latter , to cover his accidentally holding himself out as a partner so long as that is done in the course of carrying out his duties for and in the interests of the firm . |
| 11 | The defence is called " fair comment " — a misnomer , because it in fact defends unfair comment , so long as that comment is honest : " Every latitude must be given to opinion and to prejudice , and then an ordinary set of men with ordinary judgment must say [ not whether they agree with it , but ] whether any fair man would have made such a comment … |
| 12 | So soon as that is appreciated the force of the suggested analogy falls away . |
| 13 | The interest of how things are resides in their figuration , discernible and expressible by the deeper realist , of how things will be only in so far as that futurity is the truth and the end of how they are and always have been . |
| 14 | In so far as that essay gives some warrant to the idea of free-for-all hermeneutics , then , concedes Norris , ‘ ‘ Structure , Sign and Play' ’ is a text which , at least in its closing paragraphs , falls below the highest standards of Derridean argumentative rigour . ’ |
| 15 | The primary purpose was to reduce the costly time spent on oral argument in so far as that was not necessary for the proper determination fo the appeal . |
| 16 | In doing so they have pointed the way to a European future in which Germany will be the single biggest power , economically , politically , and perhaps militarily , so far as that still matters . |
| 17 | But perhaps the best tag for him is ‘ hippy ’ , in so far as that term has become , for post-punk critic and consumer alike , a cipher for pretension , over-inflation and over-reach . |
| 18 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 19 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 20 | Rawls ' theory deviates from comprehensive neutrality in requiring equal ability to pursue ideals of the good only in so far as that ability depends on the principle of equal liberty . |
| 21 | The only safe definition is negative : it is a school which admits pupils of all academic standards and without a test or assessment of ability ( save in so far as that may be used to secure what came to be known as ‘ a balanced intake ’ ) . |
| 22 | If , on the other hand , B is already the heir of A , then he has received a benefit under A 's estate , and so far as that benefit extends he may be asked to make over property to C. If he does so , however , this is regarded as restitution of property from A 's estate rather than as an institution to B's own estate . |
| 23 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 24 | The intrinsic nature of a thing is the whole detailed character which it would share with anything else exactly like it , so far as that character is entirely a matter of what the thing is like , so to speak , within its own boundaries , while its intrinsic properties are the various discriminable elements of its intrinsic nature . |
| 25 | The ‘ market egalitarianism ’ argument embodies the idea that all individuals in the market should be placed on an equal footing , in so far as that is possible . |
| 26 | Finally , I shall turn to a religious position such as my own which is not Christian , though religious and within the western tradition , in which the present is normative and the past is only drawn upon in so far as that seems to be appropriate . |
| 27 | But though none might be prepared to go so far as that , all British parties would quickly realize that apparent discrimination against women in their lists would do them a lot of harm . |
| 28 | We might admit , then , so far as that goes , that you can conceive of its hurting you in someone else 's knee ( a new sense of ‘ His knee is hurting me ’ ) but you can not conceive of its hurting anyone else there . |
| 29 | The judges know nothing about any will of the people except in so far as that will is expressed by an Act of Parliament , and would never suffer the validity of a statute to be questioned on the ground of its having been passed or kept alive in opposition to the wishes of the electors . ’ |
| 30 | However , corporatists are sharply critical of the pluralist perspective in so far as that perspective sees the interest-groups system as competitive , " democratic " , equal , and open to all , so that it leads to policy outcomes that give fair shares to everyone . |