Example sentences of "long as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The effects will be nullified as long as it operates . |
| 2 | Divergent sexuality , it is clear even now , is only permissible as long as it allows itself to be stolen , as long as it conforms to existing industry patterns and dominant sexual stereotypes . |
| 3 | The opposition of the Council of Castile , as long as it existed , was consistent : the old constitution , and with it the powers of the Council , was unalterable without the king 's consent . |
| 4 | As long as it locks . |
| 5 | As long as it go when you push down it locks it 's fine . |
| 6 | Others may have had a succession of live-in boy or girl friends , lasting as long as it suited them both . |
| 7 | However , the natives , who had known yasak , or alman , before the Russians arrived on the scene , and regarded it as a payment by a vanquished people to its conqueror , in the time-honoured manner would pay only as long as it suited them . |
| 8 | There must have been a lot of that sort of thing , when you come to think about it : tolerating ideological undesirables as long as it suited your own book — not that National Socialism had much ideology beyond being first at the trough . |
| 9 | But as far as being anal about my equipment , as some guys are , I do n't really give a shit as long as it sounds good and works . |
| 10 | ‘ As long as it sounds good when I go out on stage then it works for me . |
| 11 | Disliking the Tories more than he disliked Labour , he declared that on the defeat of Baldwin 's Government in the new Parliament , the King should ask MacDonald to form an administration , which he and his fellow Liberals would keep in office as long as it avoided extremist policies . |
| 12 | TUNA : Tinned tuna , as long as it goes straight into the sandwich after opening , is virtually bug-free . |
| 13 | As long as it , as long as it goes in |
| 14 | Yet , dump a skip on the road outside your house , leave it there as long as it pleases you , subjecting your neighbours to its unlovely sight , and no-one seems too concerned . |
| 15 | As far as the private language argument is concerned , foundationalism is still possible as long as it avoids the traditional view that epistemology is the enterprise of starting from one 's own case and building on that . |
| 16 | ‘ As long as it amuses him , and he has nothing better to do . |
| 17 | He said the RA expected it to be long campaign but were prepared to give it as long as it took to secure their aims . |
| 18 | Until the age restrictions were introduced in secondary schools , it was not uncommon for boys to continue at school as long as it took — even until twenty-two or so . |
| 19 | It is now six months since the report was handed in to the Department of Industry — as long as it took to prepare the report in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ Five minutes — as long as it took to accept that it was a fact of life and then find my lawyer 's phone number . ' ’ |
| 21 | … She told herself she was going to wait — as long as it took — then choose . |
| 22 | Only just as long as it took to get a licence . ’ |
| 23 | Well theoretically I would wait as long as it took to wash the mess off the roof . |
| 24 | It lasted as long as it took to bring her breathing back under control . |
| 25 | But many people would no doubt argue that the current ‘ anything goes as long as it sells papers ’ style goes too far the other way . |
| 26 | It does not care how many revivals the church experiences in the private world as long as it stays where it is . |
| 27 | With the velocity , as long as it stays up there , it 's travelling in the direction away from the starting line . |
| 28 | And they tolerated Gustav — gave him a job on the land — as long as it kept Mina happy and she kept them happy . |
| 29 | What is in many ways remarkable is that the family had stayed in Frome as long as it had . |
| 30 | The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state . |