Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pron] understand " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So long as they understand or we have communicated to them , why we want them to do that . |
| 2 | So long as they understand that there 's this also the erm you know er said to me , Oh it 's just English sort of said differently . |
| 3 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 4 | Just so long as we understand each other . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Good , ’ he said coldly , ‘ just so long as we understand each other . |
| 6 | ‘ Ask by all means , so long as you understand how limited my freedom may be to answer . ’ |
| 7 | In so far as I understand the logic here , heterosexual sodomy is surrogate homosexuality and homosexual sodomy is surrogate heterosexuality — or rather surrogate heterosexual incestuous genital intercourse . |
| 8 | But the ability to produce such phrases does not constitute communicative competence in so far as I understand the concept ( Widdowson 1978 , 1979 , 1983 , 1984a , 1989 ) , or as discussed in , for example , Canale and Swain 1980 , and Bachman 1990 . |
| 9 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 10 | So far as I understand it my options are one of the following : |
| 11 | I am open to contradiction , but so far as I understand , the Association as such , played no direct part either in the recent increases in apprentices ' salaries , which were reviewed automatically , nor in the revival of their indenture , which is the result of a tortuous and painfully slow consideration by the Law Society . |
| 12 | One last matter please erm , so far as I understand that you 've not yet drafted the separate staff requirement for reconnaissance , I beg you pardon , reconnaissance equipment for Eurofighter two thousand . |