Example sentences of "long as [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | As long as man eats unhealthy food ( the product of unhealthy soil ) , even in the right proportions , the medical profession will perforce have to continue to treat the inevitable results . |
2 | As long as man has lain stone on stone , people have argued the need to show a respect for the work of their forebears . |
3 | The Conservatives believe that as long as government allows individuals to pursue their own goals their citizenship is served . |
4 | If it is improbable that any further major developments will come from this stock , it is also unlikely , on the evidence of the last six hundred million years , that the group will disappear as long as life remains possible at all in the seas of the world . |
5 | The effect of that correlation between the production of each unit of living matter and the corresponding production of a unit of ‘ goodness ’ , each ‘ event ’ contributing to the ultimate goal of a happy humanity , will operate as long as life persists . |
6 | In exactly the same way , the image of the lover can be preserved unchanged as long as life endures ; rather , the image can be enhanced and made more perfect . |
7 | As long as Dad did n't know . |
8 | As long as architecture does not express a theme prosaically or literally , then it can have a multi-dimensional and enduring value . |
9 | And as long as casualism persisted there was little that local agencies could do to break the downward spiral of underemployment , overcrowding and deprivation . |
10 | As long as daimyo did not contravene the rulings of their nominal liege lord , the shogun , they could handle their own territory pretty much as they chose . |
11 | As long as competition prevails on the relevant market , consumers will receive a fair share of the resulting benefit . |
12 | As long as inflation exists , prices go up . |
13 | This " rollover " relief makes the proceeds of many business fixed asset disposals tax-free as long as replacement continues . |
14 | That , that 's fine as , as long as cash handling to salaries does not give you an additional security or handling problem . |
15 | As long as war went on in Europe the French would have to make it their main area of activity and could not concentrate on colonial or naval war . |
16 | No doubt , there are less savoury figures involved at the ‘ wholesale ’ end : there always will be — as long as cannabis remains illegal . |
17 | This rule needs to be changed , so as to allow the unemployed to draw benefit as long as unemployment lasts , providing that claimants have not refused jobs they were offered without good cause , and are prepared to go on training schemes . |
18 | As long as gravel does not stick permanently in the mouth of your fish , I suspect it is swallowing it deliberately , and there is no cause for concern . |
19 | Both the long and short meditations are presented as prayers in which Rolle counterpoints awareness of the suffering caused by sin in the events of the Passion with a growth in horrified consciousness of the death blows of sin in the self , for which the only remedy is that love manifested in the death of Christ working in man : what Julian will call " the werkyng of mercy " , which lasts as long as sin pursues man , and of grace which works our " dredful faylyng " into solace and our " shamefull " " falling " to resurrection . |
20 | So rubbish it is not , as long as beauty lies in the eye of the beholder . |
21 | ( As long as the heaving green adumbrates the land , as long as time has refused to be some time but always now , as long as the humungus titles have zipped up from the seam between sea and sky , as long … ) |
22 | The arts now hold the position once held by religion ; as long as science continues to be highly valued , then the arts will inevitably be devalued . |
23 | The triangle Greece-Rome-Judaea is still at the centre and is likely to stay at the centre as long as Christianity remains the religion of the West . |
24 | But as long as tobacco continues to be readily available there is never going to be an easy answer . ’ |
25 | For Shakhnazarov , socialism would continue as long as mankind pursued a better world ; but he rejected the idea of ‘ stages ’ of human history and the primacy of economic factors and saw communism itself as a ‘ hypothesis ’ or even a ‘ dream ’ . |
26 | Yet as long as serfdom remained , so did the objection that it was not safe to return hundreds of thousands of trained men to the countryside . |
27 | As long as power oscillated between two evenly-balanced parties , who shared more or less the whole of the vote , the election of a minority government did n't matter too much . |