Example sentences of "so [adv] as the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few of these , from the vantage point of 1990 , flourished as corporations so successfully as the BBC , which gained a reputation as one of the great creations of social and cultural policy in the twentieth century . |
| 2 | The Soviet Union , for its part , let it be known that if serious trouble did break out in East Germany Soviet troops would not move in , as they did to quell the 1953 revolt — so long as the West did not interfere either . |
| 3 | If you want to keep Pimelodus pictus with small fish , you might find you can get away with it in a densely planted tank , so long as the Pims are getting plenty of other food to eat . |
| 4 | A powerful Japan could work either for or against South Korea ; so long as the United States exercised a controlling influence over Japan , it would work for rather than against South Korea . |
| 5 | Whatever the legal rights and wrongs , so long as the Angevins actually held Gisors they were clearly negotiating from a position of strength and could reasonably hope that one day the King of France would be forced to concede their case . |
| 6 | Akashi said that so long as the Khmers Rouges refused to disarm , a freeze was necessary to maintain the balance of power in the country . |
| 7 | In Fig. 22.6 , the large polygonal features are permanent structures ; that is to say , once the flow has been established the polygonal pattern remains unchanging so long as the Rayleigh number is maintained constant , although the details of just where the polygons locate themselves will be different each time the experiment is performed . |
| 8 | A statement warned : ‘ So long as the SDLP continue to exercise a veto on political progress in Ulster , courtesy of IRA violence , and so long as Sinn Fein/IRA continue to act as the military wing of Irish nationalism , then so long will our war against them continue and intensify . ’ |
| 9 | The sub-committee can simply decide to allocate eight of these to applicants for Theology and Development ( so long as the WCC Scholarship Unit in Geneva passes on sufficient applications ) . |
| 10 | On top of all this there is the pronouncement by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate that it sees no reason why the PWR should not receive a licence for construction and operation in the UK , so long as the CEGB and the people who are to build the power station get it right . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State 's duty so far as the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge are concerned , is only to ‘ consult . ’ |
| 12 | In so far as the Manchester Corporation case is inconsistent with the principle to which I have referred it is wrong and is not good law . |
| 13 | So far as the Rome Convention is concerned , I of course accept that it is legitimate and appropriate to take its provisions into account in construing article 5(1) : the Arcado case [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 1539 , 1555 , and see , also , Ivenel v. Schwab ( Case 133/81 ) [ 1982 ] E.C.R. 1891 , 1900 . |
| 14 | But , so far as the US and its poodles in the UN Security Council are concerned , law is not the issue . |
| 15 | But we can not forget that in fabliau terms the wife of the Shipman 's Tale can be credited as a successful trickster ; in so far as the Shipman 's Tale does develop an antifeminist perspective in the ways suggested above , it enhances the antifeminist possibilities of a genre that is characteristically only playfully antifeminist . |
| 16 | So far as the UK is concerned , the proposed Directive contains little that is new in substance and , indeed , it shows clear signs of actually being based on the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers , the UK rulebook for takeovers . |
| 17 | So far as the Galway schoolboy was concerned , he was not much preoccupied in future by the Sinn Fein enemy who had driven him out . |
| 18 | That put the cork in the bottle , so far as the Danuese were concerned . |
| 19 | The 1936 Act was certainly effective so far as the United Kingdom was concerned . |
| 20 | Legally , it would seem that nothing less would do , so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 21 | Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 22 | In so far as the United Kingdom might wish to argue that it itself has the right under the Convention to retain requirements such as those at issue , reference can also be made to the court 's judgment in Commission of the European Economic Community v. Italian Republic ( Case 10/61 ) [ 1962 ] E.C.R. 1 , from which it appears that according to the principles of international law , a member state which , by virtue of the entry into force of the E.E.C . |
| 23 | So far as the La Pintada case [ 1985 ] A.C. 104 is concerned , that case differs from the present in the following material respects : ( 1 ) In the La Pintada case the plaintiffs were seeking to establish an extension of the common law that would apply in parallel to the statutory provisions . |
| 24 | In so far as the Gulf war is concerned , the hon. Gentleman is referring to one of the most successful military operations ever undertaken by this country or any other . |
| 25 | No other genuine document exists , nor ( so far as the Canterbury monks could establish ) ever had existed , which granted the primacy to the whole succession of archbishops . |
| 26 | So far as the Yek were concerned any man who was not of the race of the True people — the Yek , the N'pani , the Ch'noze — was an alien , barely human , and as such was forever suspect . |
| 27 | In so far as the RHA did feel impelled to act , the constant worry about shortages of staff and inadequacies of conditions at its mental hospitals , making neglect or abuse of patients more likely to occur , played a significant part in decision-making . |
| 28 | Therefore , so far as the ICC is concerned , the matter is closed . ’ |
| 29 | Now what were the limits so far as the Vietnam war was concerned ? |
| 30 | Now what were the limits so far as the Vietnam war was concerned ? |