Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 It seems everything I get in here , Gateways I 've got ta get some fish paste cos I do n't know what I 've got and what I have n't that 's it in in Cos I wan na defrost mine .
32 I was surprised that Madame expressed herself so warmly when she spoke of Nissim .
33 Explaining the situation , he watched patiently enough while she dealt with the disk he needed , and then he said gratefully , ‘ Thanks , Lissa .
34 Visiting rights have the great advantage of being optional , not obligatory , so Christopher and Jane were only together because they wanted to be .
35 But it is so long since I went to a party , ’ she whispered .
36 Modern society , it may be argued , is not like a set of neatly intermeshing and well-oiled cogs , but rather a game in which groups of players have considerable discretion so long as they keep within a set of rules which are often themselves rather loosely defined or at least open to negotiation and change .
37 ( p93 ) It would appear that as long as the buyer communicates the purpose for which the goods are required , he does not have to specify all of the particular applications so long as they fall within the scope of normal purpose .
38 So long as they believed in themselves they could make shift with constitutions and parliaments and dull republics .
39 That way everyone born after that particular time would have their sins forgiven so long as they believed in Jesus .
40 But it will be hard to accept that these people are serious about democracy — or can do much more to further its cause — so long as they stay in the same party as democracy-haters .
41 More generally on durability , it seems that the requirement that the goods be of merchantable quality is a continuing requirement that they will continue to be of merchantable quality for a reasonable period after delivery so long as they remain in the same apparent state as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear .
42 In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock said that the condition of fitness for purpose was a continuing obligation ‘ that the goods will continue to be fit for that purpose for a reasonable time after delivery , so long as they remain in the same apparent state and condition as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . ’
43 Independent soft-commission brokers regard it as an acceptable method of payment so long as they deal at the best price .
44 The former mandatory distinction , between brokers , who acted only as agents for their clients , and jobbers who acted only as market-making principals , has disappeared ; as a result of ‘ Big Bang ’ , firms may now act as either , so long as they disclose to the client whether they are acting as agents or principals .
45 By way of contrast members of a moral or rule-based association share nothing other than their recognition of the authority of those practices ; sharers of a common language , for example , may say what they like so long as they comply with the canons of that language .
46 So long as we looked upon the production of value and the value of the product of capital individually , the bodily form of the commodities produced was wholly immaterial for the analysis , whether it was machines , for instance , corn , or looking glasses .
47 But we can not explain why this is always objectionable , so long as we remain on the plane of justice as I have defined it .
48 However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled .
49 ‘ We are very comfortable at Government House and Lady Franklin will not hear of our going from it so long as we remain in town .
50 This may provide another justification for the anthropic principle , for if all the histories are possible , then so long as we exist in one of the histories , we may use the anthropic principle to explain why the universe is found to be the way it is .
51 In the event it was 1928 before they finally left the course on loan to a Mr. Parsons so long as he looked after them .
52 It would be impossible to persuade anyone to act as trustee unless the discretion entrusted to him were very liberally conferred , and it is now possible for a trustee to delegate to an agent , not merely pieces of business requiring especial skill , but the whole business of the trust , and escape liability so long as he acts in good faith .
53 Wright — so long as he remained in exile — could write what he liked .
54 He knew he was safe so long as he remained in the kitchen .
55 Held , dismissing the appeal , that on the plain words of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Rent Act 1977 a statutory tenant enjoyed that status so long as he remained in occupation of the dwelling house as his residence , and , therefore , the defendant had remained a statutory tenant after the possession order had been made ; that since she was neither a statutorily protected nor an excluded tenant within the meaning of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she was entitled to the protection of section 3 of that Act and could not lawfully be removed from the premises until the possession order had been executed in accordance with rules of court ; that since the only method of enforcement provided by the County Court Rules 1981 was by execution of a possession warrant in accordance with Ord. 26 , r. 17 , the plaintiff was not entitled to re-enter by other means ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Act of 1988 ( post , pp. 879B , 881D–E , G–H , 882A–B , B–C , 883C–E ) .
56 He believed that so long as he remained in the Government the Press attacks would continue and that his supposedly malevolent influence would be blamed for every failure .
57 The tsar had been enthusiastic about change so long as he remained in the orbit of Elena Pavlovna , but in St Petersburg his convictions or his courage deserted him .
58 So long as it stays like that . ’
59 It explained everything , though she fought it , fought the nightmare truth of her growing feelings for him , her respect , her admiration , her jealousy , her pain , her longing to make him feel something for her , anything , so long as it came from the heart and not the body …
60 So long as it remains within 8″ of its regiment during the game , the detachment may take any leadership-based tests on the leadership value of the parent regiment , including any bonuses that apply for standards , magic items , and so forth .
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