Example sentences of "long as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some detainees have been held for as long as seven years without charge or trial . |
| 2 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 3 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 4 | Maximum clarity , he wrote , for as long as it takes . |
| 5 | Never mind where so long as it is a public space . |
| 6 | So long as it remains in this room , he wrote , it is not finished . |
| 7 | So long as we have language , he argued , we simply can not conceive it . |
| 8 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 9 | I stayed in the cafe for as long as I felt I could and then went back outside . |
| 10 | Wetland plants will be in their element , so long as they are given generous mulches to keep the moisture in . |
| 11 | To dry beans , leave the mature pods on the plants as long as possible , then pull them up by the roots and hang them in the sun to complete drying . |
| 12 | Root crops for storage are best left in the ground for as long as possible , provided they are dug up before severe frosts set in . |
| 13 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 14 | After the birth , intercourse can begin again as soon as you feel ready and so long as you do n't feel any discomfort . |
| 15 | But as one said , ‘ so long as you 're not reading that bloody sociology ’ . |
| 16 | In the world of an inside ethnography as Favret-Saada identifies , ‘ one is never able to choose between subjectivism and the objective method as it was taught ’ ( ibid. 23 ) , so long as one wishes to find out answers which , in traditional ethnography , are often missing from the finite corpus of empirical observation . |
| 17 | So long as I stuck to squawks and Pretty fucking Polly , I was fine ? |
| 18 | Immediate first aid for a bleeding nose is to tilt the head back and pinch the nostrils together for as long as it takes . |
| 19 | ‘ So long as we get him out ’ — Cameron was still cagey . |
| 20 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |
| 21 | ‘ Nothing is enough , so long as we have no hand in government . ’ |
| 22 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 23 | So long as your people will take them food . |
| 24 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 25 | ‘ So long as we are not like generals to them . ’ |
| 26 | So long as we adopt a broadly ‘ functionalist ’ philosophy of mind — in which mental states are defined in terms of their causal relations to sensory inputs , motor outputs and to one another — this ‘ computational theory of the mind ’ is a very satisfying general account of the mind-body relationship . |
| 27 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 28 | You may say , against this , that there can surely be some form of appearance/reality distinction so long as the input systems can deliver up information about such objective facts as occlusion . |
| 29 | Moreover , we showed , in a small study , that non-conservers of length will say that a one-inch and a ten-inch stick are the same length so long as their tips are on a level . |
| 30 | This is not the case in non- autistic mentally handicapped children , who do well on false belief tasks so long as their mental age , by other criteria , is above three years . |