Example sentences of "so [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few of these , from the vantage point of 1990 , flourished as corporations so successfully as the BBC , which gained a reputation as one of the great creations of social and cultural policy in the twentieth century . |
| 2 | You may say , against this , that there can surely be some form of appearance/reality distinction so long as the input systems can deliver up information about such objective facts as occlusion . |
| 3 | Eventually equipment purchases will have to be made so long as the demand for packaging is there . |
| 4 | A recession would cut back London 's traffic but so long as the economy keeps growing , the result will be more cars , more traffic and more pollution . |
| 5 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 6 | The Soviet Union , for its part , let it be known that if serious trouble did break out in East Germany Soviet troops would not move in , as they did to quell the 1953 revolt — so long as the West did not interfere either . |
| 7 | ‘ But so long as the system remains as it is , those who choose to disregard their obligations must realise they may face a fine . ’ |
| 8 | First , gathering , hunting , and fishing do not represent clearly different technological stages but always occur together so long as the environment permits the combination . |
| 9 | So long as the animals ' behaviour is meticulously noted , she argues , empathy and intuition can be invaluable in interpreting it . |
| 10 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 11 | That takes time , but also requires scale : so long as the car makers ' output — and thus demand for parts — is small , it is hard to force suppliers to change their ways . |
| 12 | In water it forms aluminosilicates , which are inert as far as living organisms are concerned , so long as the level of acidity stays low — the silicon will make the aluminium separate out harmlessly . |
| 13 | So long as the frost does n't get to them first . |
| 14 | So long as the prosecution proves that D caused the explosion , and that the explosion was likely to endanger life , that would suffice for conviction . |
| 15 | The fault element in section 20 has been further broadened by the decision in Mowatt ( 1968 ) : there is no need to prove recklessness as to wounding or grievous bodily harm , so long as the court is satisfied that D was reckless as to some physical harm to some person , albeit of a minor character . |
| 16 | In most research studies of bereaved people it is recorded time and time again that , so long as the people involved have somewhere to go and someone to talk to about this major loss in their life , then they may well cope . |
| 17 | Then they make their ale from what they have collected , and those who do not come there to drink and do not give money at the foresters ' will are sorely punished at their pleas for dead wood , although the King has no demesne ; nor does anyone dare to brew when the foresters brew , or to sell ale so long as the foresters have any kind of ale to sell ; and this every forester does year by year to the great grievance of the country . |
| 18 | Tolerance of strangers may be morally right however threatened one feels , at least so long as the strangers respect the laws and customs of the country they have settled in . |
| 19 | In other words , so long as the campaign was in effect a referendum on the Government 's performance , Labour won . |
| 20 | It 's acceptable to lay the parquet directly on a suspended timber floor fitted with ordinary floorboards , so long as the boards are firmly fixed and not warped . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Thus , to argue that minds exist and that bodies exist is correct , so long as the ‘ logical tones of voice , are maintained as distinct . |
| 23 | The poem which advocates marriage so long as the partner is chosen reasonably is included , but not the second poem which examines the dangers of marriage per se . |
| 24 | So long as the old couple had not made over the farm , their middle-aged son remained a ‘ boy ’ : ‘ You can be a boy here forever as long as the old fellow is still alive ’ . |
| 25 | And although the flow of mutual aid was markedly more often from the grandparent so long as the two generations were living separately , there were several cases in which visiting was explicitly intended to enable the grandchild to convey help . |
| 26 | If its greatest danger lies in the Israeli threat to push yet more Palestinians across the river Jordan and in a consequent revolution , Jordan 's greatest asset lies in the support it receives from the West , anxious to bolster Jordan as a ‘ moderate ’ in the Arab world so long as the Middle East conflict persists . |
| 27 | And for so long as the honours system continues in operation , there ought to be recognition of citizenship as a criterion . |
| 28 | Timbers affected by wet rot need only to be dried out , or cut out and replaced with sound timbers , and so long as the source of wetting is removed and air allowed to circulate , the rot will not recur . |
| 29 | Damp is acceptable so long as the cellar is not in use and so long as it does not rise above the ground floor dpc . |
| 30 | But , so long as the net inflow of foreign exchange deposits is positive , as it has been up to now , there is no net withdrawal of funds from the National Bank . |