Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [is] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is out , try relighting it with a match , so long as there is no strong smell of gas . |
| 2 | They can work down an excellent tilth after ploughing so long as there is no unrotted turf . |
| 3 | The desired formula ( strictly valid only if constituency seats and list seats are equal in number ) will then show that the system will function tidily so long as there is no party for which x exceeds 2y . |
| 4 | So long as there is a full right of appeal against a refusal of leave — a right which the present Government sought , at one stage , to abolish — this handicap is acceptable , even though it places public authorities in a more privileged position than the ordinary litigant . |
| 5 | Any of these conditions is pleasurable so long as there is a good likelihood of satisfaction in reasonably short order . |
| 6 | We see no reason why the decision should be unanimous so long as there is a majority in favour . |
| 7 | So long as there is a need for collective decision-making and for policies which give direction to a whole community or society , and so long as or whenever unanimity can not be achieved , it is hard to see what alternative there can be to the minority being compelled to go along with the decision of the majority . |
| 8 | Is the Minister satisfied that those humanitarian needs have been met and are being met , or that they can be met so long as there is a risk to the Kurdish population from the evil dictator in Baghdad ? |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Bush reiterated his commitment to maintain the 39,000 US troops stationed in South Korea " so long as there is a need and we 're welcome " . |
| 10 | Conditions can be imposed for regulating the development or use of any land under the control of the applicant , whether or not it is the land to which the application relates , so long as there is a definite relationship between the object of the condition and the development permitted . |
| 11 | So long as there is the prospect that a majority Labour government can be elected to a position of absolute power at Westminster then our unionist wing is content not to question the democratic credentials of such a route to power . |
| 12 | Sam was also a masterly shepherd and an expert breeder of Swaledale sheep , a most hardy animal which roams at will along the high fells and can live through all but the most brutal winters , even possessing the stamina to survive being buried for days under several feel of snow , so long as there is an air hole . |
| 13 | It may have been of more limited scope , for example , ‘ I refuse to have a blood transfusion , so long as there is an effective alternative . ’ |
| 14 | But how can that ever be , so long as there 's the possibility that you can escape back into your filthy damn whiteness ? ’ |
| 15 | But for as long as there 's an Oxford University , some things will never change . |
| 16 | Never mind where so long as it is a public space . |
| 17 | The next breakpoint is 600dpi — so long as it is a true 600dpi system and not an interpolated one where the dots in the middle are filled in if the ones on either side are present . |
| 18 | MOMENTS of passion can include ice-cream so long as it is the grown-up variety . |
| 19 | especially as there 's a monetary incentive . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I could come all over bitter and say that 's very noble and gallant of the President , especially as there 's no chance of his being blown out of his seat in the Oval Office when this little lot goes up , but I wo n't . |
| 21 | Especially as there 's no guarantee I wo n't fail . |
| 22 | The morphological interpretation of these structures presents many problems , especially as there is a basic and long-standing controversy as to whether they are , at least in part , modified abdominal appendages serially homologous with the thoracic limbs , or whether they are simply secondary sternal processes . |
| 23 | Especially as there is a shortage of officers . |
| 24 | We abandoned the last Munro , especially as it 's a top that can be combined with Meall Greigh to be bagged another day , and staggered down into the long glen that would take us back to our morning starting point . |
| 25 | So as there 's no other comments er , Vince would you have you got any ? |
| 26 | Hypnosis is akin to being in love in that the same sapping of the subject 's initiative takes place , even more so as there is no possibility of sexual satisfaction , which exists as a possibility even in unrequited love relationships . |
| 27 | The much publicised schism between Adobe and Apple followed by the latter 's siding with Microsoft — a company it was then attacking in the courts — all seems a little strange , especially so as there is no actual product involved , only a ‘ standard ’ . |
| 28 | On nearby Beinn an Lochain , a route called the Frog does n't stir the same dread , perhaps reasonably so as it is a II/III crossing Toad , and put up by Tom Redfern and Klaus Schwartz . |
| 29 | Stage I and Stage II averages are printed separately as it is the Stage II average only which forms the basis for determining the class of honours . |
| 30 | Clearly there must be a re-creation of many aspects of the court of Napoleon I , but it would be a great mistake to see the court of the Second Empire as a simple pastiche — just as it is a great mistake to see in Napoleon III nothing but a simulacrum of his uncle . |