Example sentences of "so [adv] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since so many of us had made love to either O or to Boy we felt that by comparing notes we knew a great deal about how they behaved when making love , and so when we saw them reappear so obviously as lovers we were pleased to see that our predictions had been correct . |
| 2 | This freedom — to publish , of the press , of the media — should remain intact so long as laws are not broken . |
| 3 | Because the cake is covered in buttercream it will not keep so long as cakes made with fondant , so eat it fairly soon after it is made . |
| 4 | Motion is possible even without empty space ; so long as things simultaneously move into each other 's places , motion is as possible in a plenum as in a crowd . |
| 5 | So long as women are subordinate to men , their language will continue to be stereotyped as indicating natural subservience , unintelligence and immaturity . |
| 6 | The launching of the United Nations Decade for Women began in Britain with the passing of Equal Pay and Anti-Sex Discrimination legislation , and so long as women 's demands were not seen as too extreme , and were easily satisfied by a few minor modifications in the administration of sexual injustice , then the liberal socialist establishment seemed happy to make the appropriate gestures . |
| 7 | So long as women 's studies options exist , the rest of the curriculum which is not women 's studies , and the structures in which knowledge is constructed , managed and transmitted , can remain unchanged . |
| 8 | So long as Americans pay outrageous sums for cocaine , traffickers will continue to let enough crumbs trickle down to the farmers to make growing coffee or citrus an unattractive alternative . |
| 9 | A small chorus has applauded such a shift in resources , arguing that prohibition of drugs will always fail so long as Americans remain so determined to get hold of them . |
| 10 | So long as philosophers and psychologists of the nineteenth century had to wrestle with an implicit mind — body problem , it was virtually impossible for evolutionists to tackle the evolution of higher mental processes of a distinctively human kind . |
| 11 | Gergiev 's singers would do well to stay with him : the aims are long term and — thinks to Philip 's final decision on a five- year plan — solid , so long as circumstances in Russia do n't notably worsen . |
| 12 | This does not invalidate the earlier comment that a full-track bucket is advantageous , so long as records are randomized to a full track but stored in single-record format on the track . |
| 13 | So long as newspapers remain in awe of political authority , they are beyond criticism ; once they challenge that authority , they suffer the full force of its reaction . |
| 14 | Hungarians are no longer afraid , at least not so long as reformers run Russia , that Soviet tanks will snuff out their democratic experiment , as they did in 1956 . |
| 15 | On Feb. 6 the US Secretary of State James Baker announced that the US administration would delay submitting the CFE treaty to Congress for ratification so long as questions remained about Soviet compliance with the treaty . |
| 16 | Whether they did so because they ought to or because they were obliged to , so long as employers treated employees only just well enough , there need be no struggle between them . |
| 17 | So long as teachers are made to feel guilty about such difficulties in a negative and personal manner then they will be susceptible to short-term placebos . |
| 18 | I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business . |
| 19 | So long as men dominate women in conversation by restricting their talk , our folklinguistic beliefs will include the idea that women talk incessantly . |
| 20 | So long as assets remain available they will have caused the company to borrow on mortgage , but when the company 's credit is exhausted they may attempt to keep the company afloat by themselves making unsecured loans to it . |
| 21 | Such arrangements have for some time been permitted so long as clients are fully informed of the nature of the company and the profits go to the firm . |
| 22 | So long as politicians think that they are entitled to manipulate the money supply to win elections , the conditions for a thriving industry will not be obtained . |
| 23 | Whatever the government , the NHS has always been seen as underfunded and that is unlikely to change so long as children and old people wait months for operations . |
| 24 | Never mind that this idea destroys the fundamental premise of J. M. Barrie 's story , which ends with a vision of Wendy 's descendants continuing to visit the Neverland with an eternally youthful Peter ‘ so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless ’ ; nor yet that Captain James Hook has somehow escaped from the jaws of the ticking crocodile to dream of a return engagement with the leader of the Lost Boys . |
| 25 | Never mind that this idea destroys the fundamental premise of J. M. Barrie 's story , which ends with a vision of Wendy 's descendants continuing to visit the Neverland with an eternally youthful Peter ‘ so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless ’ ; nor yet that Captain James Hook has somehow escaped from the jaws of the ticking crocodile to dream of a return engagement with the leader of the Lost Boys . |
| 26 | In most subsequent cases , it became clear that considerations of comity would not prevail against the usual procedures of the Federal Rules so long as deponents or documents were to be produced within the United States , from whatever source . |
| 27 | Finally , whereas Brittan and Peacock would perceive nothing untoward in biased programming so long as consumers are free to exercise consumer choice as they do with newspapers ( sic ) , Curran and Seaton propose that broadcasting and the press should be more representative of all political shades . |
| 28 | So long as radicals were on the rampage , staying in the centre meant leaning ever farther towards liberal reform . |
| 29 | In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post . |
| 30 | The idea of higher education as ‘ liberal ’ turns into a fiction so long as courses are determined solely by the introverted stance of the student 's core discipline . |