Example sentences of "so [adv] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as a fissure is known to exist between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor about the ERM , the task of convincing the financial markets that policy is in safe hands will be made infinitely more difficult . |
| 2 | So long as a head of state — and thus his circle of patronage — can change quite unexpectedly , multi-country regional groupings will have to overcome major political as well as economic problems . |
| 3 | Kádár was fairly liberal in that respect , so long as a few taboos were respected , especially the role of the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 5 | With a digital signal , it is very difficult for distortion to occur since so long as a 1 remains a 1 and 0 remains a 0 the signal will continue to carry all the information and the data stream will be as pure at the end as it was at the beginning . |
| 6 | Therefore , only so long as a woman is in labour shall he give up Israel ; and then those that survive of his race shall rejoin their brethren . |
| 7 | So long as a tiger stands still or moves slowly , its stripes make it practically invisible in the jungle or among reeds . |
| 8 | Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field . |
| 9 | Lear is now experiencing the truth of La Rochefoucauld 's maxim that ‘ So long as a man is still in a position to help others he will rarely encounter ingratitude . ’ |
| 10 | Even in a larger group , so long as a few actors stand to benefit disproportionately from the group 's success , then it may be worth their while to bear the costs of collective action , although less-involved people will free-ride . |
| 11 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 12 | The justification supposes that so long as a person is possessed of a right , that right may be exercised regardless of the consequences for others . |
| 13 | And so long as a transaction falls within the scope of an activity set out in the objects clause ( ’ manufacturing ’ , ‘ property development ’ , and so on ) it will be authorised . |
| 14 | So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism . |
| 15 | The sickle lasted for so long as a harvesting tool for this very reason : it was still used in preference to the swap-hook and scythe in some areas because its use , although slower , conserved the grain . |
| 16 | That might work with the philosophe who put together the doctrine in the first place but it is unlikely to work with a follower who is able to live with all sons of inconsistencies so long as a few slogans can be repeated again and again . |
| 17 | Those days have gone only so long as a Government are in power who are determined to continue a regime of common sense and reasonable and balanced industrial relations . |
| 18 | Articles 85 and 86 of Table A ( prescribed pursuant to the Companies Act 1985 ) provide that so long as a director has disclosed his interest to the company , he may be a party to or interested in any transaction , and shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the company for any benefit he receives from such a transaction . |
| 19 | So long as a majority of Northern Ireland voters prefer to remain with the United Kingdom , we must concentrate our energies on protection for those on whom the terrorists wage war . |
| 20 | The Netherlands allows the centre to carry on supporting , preparatory or auxiliary activities , which is more flexible , at least in principle , and the centre can take on commercial risks so long as an increased mark-up is agreed . |
| 21 | So long as an apparatchik continued to be invited to join the Ceauşescus at play , even the ceaseless rotation of offices could not disguise his continuing status as one of the leaders . |
| 22 | Of course , this does not rule out the use of naturalistic facts so long as an objective notion of validity is employed — the validity of inductive inference could turn on features of the context in which it is carried out , or the perceptual apparatus of the reasoner . |
| 23 | After a 16-year ban , shops will now be allowed to display English ( or Italian or other language ) signs outside , so long as an accompanying French sign is ‘ markedly predominant ’ — that is , twice as big . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , both Weber and the interactionists did think it was possible to produce causal explanations of human behaviour so long as an understanding of meanings formed part of those explanations . |
| 25 | So long as an account 's written down somewhere , no one 's going to fuss about the details . |
| 26 | In so far as a stranger , on a brief visit supported by senior officials from the area , could judge the pupils were happy , receiving a balanced education and in most cases planning to follow in the family footsteps . |
| 27 | Jenkins ( 1987 ) describes effectiveness research so far as a ‘ limited concept , primarily relating to the intervention process ’ and with little validity in the ‘ macro area ’ . |
| 28 | In much the same vein , one LEA considered recently a draft of a newsletter to parents outlining the implication of those rights so far as a child 's education in their early years was concerned . |
| 29 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 30 | In so far as a government wants to have money to spend , it must be raised . |