Example sentences of "long [conj] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't really look at him , though I immediately smelled alcohol on his breath , and thought , that firm is n't going to last long if it 's sending out drunken drivers to pick up clients . |
| 2 | We have n't yet found a UK outlet for Star Trek : The Screen Saver , but no doubt it wo n't be long before it 's beamed over . |
| 3 | That 's with me , seeing that it was so long before it was diagnosed , that 's why my feet and hands are still paralysed . |
| 4 | However , double standards were used ind attacks on the ‘ alien menace ’ in the fascist press used many anti-semitic stereotypes long before it was accepted as an official weapon ; for instance in Blackshirt in October 1933 those Jews who attacked fascism were likened to a cancer in the body politic . |
| 5 | It is certainly the case that the idea that existence is not a predicate , a quality of things such as blueness or hardness , was clearly recognised in classical philosophy long before it was taken up by Kant in the eighteenth century and further refined by Bertrand Russell in the twentieth . |
| 6 | We do , however , know that tea was valued and enjoyed in China and Japan for many centuries , long before it was introduced to India , Ceylon and Africa . |
| 7 | Long before it was finished , in 1769 , at a cost of £175,000 , Scotland was once more tranquil . |
| 8 | Extraordinarily powerful and detailed American serial killer first novel that lingers in the mind long after it 's finished . |
| 9 | Our folk up at Dalvaine and that , they spoke the Gaelic long after it was spoken down the glen . |
| 10 | C. T. Onions , the philologist , another fellow of Magdalen , was a founder member of the Kolbitar , and not long after it was founded two other fellows of Magdalen were asked to join : Jack Lewis and Bruce McFarlane , the historian . |
| 11 | Not long after it was taken , her mother 's letters went unanswered . |
| 12 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently . |
| 13 | When no specific instruction are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently . |
| 14 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently , Guidelines on layouts are published in the British Standards Institution booklet ‘ Guide to Typewriting ’ ( PD 6506 : 1982 ) . |
| 15 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently . |
| 16 | Mr Green , 55 , author of the definitive Grand National chronicle , A Race Apart , added : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the present starting system so long as it is operated properly . |
| 17 | Mr Green , 55 , author of the Grand National chronicle , A Race Apart , said : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the present starting system so long as it is operated properly . |
| 18 | There may be nothing behind it , but it does n't make any difference so long as it is honoured . |
| 19 | We should prefer to see it being done in London so long as it is done by male labour , it is no matter where . |
| 20 | 8.1 Neither party shall be under any liability to the other if and for so long as it is prevented from or delayed in performing any of its obligations under this Agreement by reason of circumstances beyond its reasonable control . |
| 21 | Sport encompasses things like hunting , all sorts of hunting : fox , hare otter , camel or whatever , just so long as it is conducted with hounds . |
| 22 | Borrowing is looked upon as a natural part of everyday life so long as it is kept within bounds . |
| 23 | Borrowing is looked upon as a natural part of everyday life so long as it is kept within bounds . |
| 24 | It matters little whether there is much evidence of individualism creating achievement or loss so long as it is believed that it does . |
| 25 | long as it is sealed , but if it escapes in large quantities , when a hole is drilled for example , the tiny fibres can cause serious lung diseases . |
| 26 | So long as it is confined to strict military targets — roads , bridges , supply depots , gun emplacements — bombing need not alienate either public opinion in the West or the ordinary Serbs who must help change the minds of their stubborn , self-styled leaders . |
| 27 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 28 | Equally , in the words of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills ( 1936 P.C. ) ‘ there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter ; a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description . ’ |
| 29 | As Lord Wright said in Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd [ 1936 ] AC 85 : It may also be pointed out that there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter : a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description , eg woollen undergarments , a hot-water bottle , a second-hand reaping machine , to select a few obvious illustrations . |
| 30 | Does my right hon. Friend agree , however , that for 20 years he and his predecessors have pursued the will-of-the-wisp of power-sharing , devolved government ; and that , for as long as it is pursued , the IRA will believe , rightly or wrongly , that it will get us out in the end ? |