Example sentences of "[adv] as we [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes .
2 Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run .
3 The class can take on the role of any group of people unified by a common concern or problem , so long as we ensure that every child has an active role to play .
4 So long as we think that good must be identical with some one natural property we can not but suppose that all good things have some such property in common .
5 In analysing this argument , Hirschi ( 1973 , p. 171 ) concludes that ‘ Sociology will suffer … so long as we believe that our assumptions guarantee truth , while their assumptions guarantee error , whatever the facts may be ’ .
6 Engineers already knew this , just as we know that the refrigerator will not work if it is not plugged in ; but Carnot 's achievement , when recognized after a quarter of a century , allowed theoretical understanding and in the end further advance in practice .
7 Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed .
8 Speaking of the activities of elementary particle physicists , he writes that whereas the activity appears essential as long as we believe in the independent existence of fundamental laws that we can still hope to know better , it loses practically its whole motivation as soon as we believe that the sole objective of the scientists is to make their impressions mutually consistent .
9 A further possible source of latent inhibition emerges as soon as we accept that any stimulus can be construed as consisting of a set of elements .
10 In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 .
11 It would take a musical analysis to find out whether the offerings to which these two extremes respond are really worlds apart ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 13 ) , we know that the question implied in the final sentence has already been answered in his own mind , just as surely as we know that he has not done the musical analysis but simply conflated Elvis and … whom ?
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