Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 2 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
| 3 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 4 | You do n't sleep so much as you get older . |
| 5 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 6 | I do understand that the burden of an elderly , dependent relative , even of one so sprightly as your mother , can be great . |
| 7 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 8 | Wetland plants will be in their element , so long as they are given generous mulches to keep the moisture in . |
| 9 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 10 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 11 | Mr Hunt said of the changes in the poll tax rules for teenagers : ‘ A new wider exemption will apply to all young adults under the age of 20 for so long as they are still at school or in full-time further — though not higher -education . ’ |
| 12 | Yet negative influences , so long as they were sufficiently weighty and cumulative , could have enormous effects on the formulation of all-Russian policies . |
| 13 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 14 | The sovereign is under a constitutional duty to accept the advice of her ministers tendered through her chief minister so long as they command her confidence — so long , that is , as they command a majority in Parliament . |
| 15 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 16 | Officers should be allowed ‘ to take part in conspiracies to import drugs so long as they withdrew prior to importation . ’ |
| 17 | Self-contradiction is natural in the human make-up ; inconsistencies are not worrying in themselves , so long as they are n't planted by memoir-writers or biographers putting down other biographers . |
| 18 | Anyone can do it so long as they are not criminals or kids , and promise to play by the rules . |
| 19 | But other sorts of drink may be advertised , so long as they do not link consumption to social or sexual success — thus eliminating the predictable drink-this-and-score line . |
| 20 | But it will be hard to accept that these people are serious about democracy — or can do much more to further its cause — so long as they stay in the same party as democracy-haters . |
| 21 | AT THE beginning of the 20th century Texan lobbyists could get more or less what they wanted so long as they kept politicians supplied with the three Bs : beefsteak , bourbon and blondes . |
| 22 | They will not wear their knuckles out knocking at the West 's door , so long as they feel it will be opened to them before too long . |
| 23 | The master is liable for wrongful acts and defaults of his servant — though they may be unauthorized or even forbidden by him — so long as they are done within the scope of the employment . |
| 24 | So long as they were n't too close and breathing their germs on her , Gloria liked there to be people about . |
| 25 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 26 | So she sent them on immediately , longing to know what they contained and never finding out , but supposing that so long as they did keep coming the worst could not yet have happened . |
| 27 | We enjoy mysteries , so long as they do not threaten our person . |
| 28 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
| 29 | Independent soft-commission brokers regard it as an acceptable method of payment so long as they deal at the best price . |
| 30 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |