Example sentences of "long as [adj] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Citizens of the United Kingdom do , however , have an individual right of access to the European enforcement agencies whether Her Majesty 's government likes it or not , so long that is , and only so long as that government continues to accede to the Convention and the jurisdiction of the machinery which it establishes . |
| 2 | So long as that situation continues , the British meat and livestock industry will be placed at a severe competitive disadvantage . |
| 3 | That prospect is anyway slight so long as Soviet-American cosiness continues and Iraq 's war machine remains broken . |
| 4 | Its distribution in space becomes more and more contorted by the velocity fluctuations , but so long as molecular diffusion plays no role , the marked fluid is always just the same fluid . |
| 5 | And yet , so long as this land contains a politically-aware football manager , Mrs T will not be forgotten . |
| 6 | Christians must have difficulty in using the bible to speak to contemporary issues so long as this belief persists . |
| 7 | In short , nothing that is in the process of development or change , strictly speaking , can be claimed to be numerically the same as long as this process lasts , for existents are individuated only by their full life-cycles . |
| 8 | I 'm going to live for as long as this forest remains standing . |
| 9 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 10 | But , for as long as any paradigm holds , they do have some court of last resort . |
| 11 | The process will continue for as long as earthly life endures . |
| 12 | This probably represents the future , at any rate so long as petroleum-led growth continues to provide opportunities for differentiation . |
| 13 | So long as parliamentary sovereignty remains " the one fundamental law " of the Constitution , there is no way in which substantive rights can be entrenched and put beyond the reach of Parliament . |