Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] long as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently as long as I get it on a P C disk , five inch |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I remember one day , there was an awful row and a crowd gathered and Mary Jane Worty said : ‘ I 'll come down as long as that young PC there takes me into Argyle Street Bridewell . ’ |
| 3 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 4 | All four Gospels hark back to a period long before their own composition — perhaps as long as sixty or seventy years . |
| 5 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 6 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 7 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 8 | A junior Defence Minister attempted to explain that a bomb might easily be planted in a barracks : ‘ Anyone could walk in as long as they were carrying a package which did not look suspicious . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He means , ’ said Rita , slowly , in her loud classroom voice , ‘ anyone could walk in as long as he or she were not carrying a package that did look suspicious . ’ |
| 10 | He took a pride in his job and he did n't mind how many hours he put in as long as he got paid for them . |
| 11 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 12 | There was a heady scent of rosemary and thyme in the air , and she breathed it in , feeling strangely at peace for the first time in as long as she could remember . |
| 13 | I mean , one scapegoat is enough as long as he does hit bit . ’ |
| 14 | Fair enough as long as they come back and they put a ticket on . |
| 15 | It has proved convenient for Conservatives and Labour parties and will probably continue to be so as long as one of them holds office . |
| 16 | It is the last bastion against all these evils , and will remain so as long as it keeps acquiring books it does not have when they are found and brought to it . |
| 17 | The copper is then moving against a concentration gradient , yet it will continue to do so as long as light is shone on the system to initiate the chain of transferred electrons . |
| 18 | Folates are found in wholegrain cereals , fruit and vegetables , so as long as her diet included plenty of these the risk of spina bifida was low . |
| 19 | Gilmore said , ‘ The army has worked with the civil authority to bring about a reduction in violence and will continue to do so as long as it is necessary . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Now then , as your duly elected leader , let me assure you that I am always working tirelessly on your behalf , and I will continue to do so as long as I remain your duly elected leader . |
| 21 | And given that it was Godolphin himself who supplied these items — most were simply terrestrial trivia , revered in the Dominions because of their place of origin — and given that he would not cease to do so as long as the fever of collection was upon him and he could exchange such items for artifacts from the Imajica , Peccable 's business would flourish . |
| 22 | So as long as gender and race can be satisfactorily subordinated to class then Marxism does not need refuting , and history can be reasserted as the single narrative of the Third International . |
| 23 | The new 600 Plus film packs for all cameras , £8.99 for a pack of 10 , include a battery to power all the camera 's functions — so as long as a film is loaded , the camera has power . |
| 24 | So as long as you you 're thinking that they 're doing okay and meeting the market demand . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's all kegs nowadays , so as long as you keep it fairly cool , it comes up smiling . ’ |
| 26 | So as long as you get rid of that one , two , three , four , you can press the space bar and then enter . |
| 27 | The FMLN had reaffirmed on July 29 that the second 20 per cent of its guerrillas due to demobilize on July 31 would not do so as long as socio-economic conditions for their re-integration into the civilian life remained " non-existent " [ for start of demobilization in June see p. 38957 ] . |
| 28 | So as long as you 're in the X positive , then you 're moving in a positive direction , or a er |
| 29 | so as long as they er did n't actually have |
| 30 | So as long as you 're behind the ball you can keep moving |