Example sentences of "so [adv] as [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | So long as people can walk out of a room and say they have decided to leave on their terms , they retain their dignity . |
| 3 | So long as people want to travel , the money , aircraft and qualified staff are always available for some determined operator to keep services going , no matter what happens to individual airlines . |
| 4 | David Tuffin , of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors , says the principle of self-build is still fine , so long as people 's prime concern is to make a place to live rather than save cash or make a profit . |
| 5 | So long as people continued to live in their old houses , surrounded by their old friends and neighbours , and had not broken with a routine of life which perhaps dated back generations , then the re-moulding of mentalities was going to be a frustratingly slow process , particularly for an engineer of human souls who was no longer young . |
| 6 | So long as people are carfeul and obey the law , there should be no problems . |
| 7 | So long as people can milk the benefits of contracting out , but still return when the gains run out , the Government is in a heads they win , tails we lose situation . |
| 8 | At the level of loans , there seems little real obstacle to rapid progress , so long as multimedia publishers do not prohibit loans through their conditions of sale . |
| 9 | In so far as people do move , they move wholly in response to capital 's demand ; in so far as they are active , they tend to be seen as part of a huge block of ‘ labour ’ . |
| 10 | It seems to me that they all have implications so far as people 's lives are concerned — their activities , their rewarding work , in a sense . |
| 11 | Impressionism has really made things very difficult in so far as people think that impressionism is a kind of normal state for art to be in and anything else is a kind of deviation from good sense . |