Example sentences of "so [adv] as it exist " in BNC.

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1 If an Act of Parliament has been obtained improperly , it is for the legislature to correct it by repealing it : but , so long as it exists as law , the courts are bound to obey it .
2 Genuine republican feeling , in so far as it existed at all in the major States , was a nostalgia or very occasionally an aspiration , never a programme .
3 Often they are questions on which the hierarchy of the family ( in so far as it exists in Britain ) has to be consulted .
4 The problem results from the fact that the compulsory element in the Directive , so far as it exists , relates merely to the transfer of the contract of employment , but the contract of employment is a consensual relationship , at least as far as the employee is concerned , and so it is in principle available to be terminated unilaterally by the employee at any time or to be modified with the joint consent of employee and employer .
5 In these circumstances the ego simply has no hope of triumphing by measuring up to the ideal standards of the superego , in so far as it exists .
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