Example sentences of "long [conj] it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are therefore presented with a book which was not ‘ written in order … but like as the matter came to the creature in mind … for it was so long ere it was written that she had forgotten the time and the order when things befell ’ . |
| 2 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 3 | Well as long as it was cooked . |
| 4 | Through the early 1960s , it refused to join a common front of uranium export suppliers as long as it was treated differently by Canada from the United States and United Kingdom over sales of uranium . |
| 5 | Evolution was acceptable as long as it was presented as a purposeful process in which the human race played a central role as the goal towards which natural progress was aimed . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , he had relented to the extent of allowing the teachers to bring a bottle as long as it was kept out of sight of the paying customers . |
| 7 | Women supported the idea of compulsory leave from work as long as it was paid leave and called for the adoption of the International Labour Organisation 's Washington Convention , which provided for six weeks maternity leave before and after childbirth . |
| 8 | She drank Guinness , smoked Gauloises and would eat anything as long as it was loaded with garlic … |
| 9 | Expansion of German 's borders , especially the incorporation of ‘ ethnic ’ German territory into the Reich , was massively popular , as long as it was attained without bloodshed . |
| 10 | It could be signed as soon as the fathers agreed the match or as late as the wedding night itself , just as long as it was signed before the consummation . |
| 11 | The merged ‘ Norfolk and Suffolk Polled ’ could be any colour as long as it was polled and it was not until the Red Poll herdbook was formed in 1874 that the colour of the breed was formally agreed as red , preferably deep in colour , with a red udder ; white touches were permitted only in the tail switch , or on the udder and just in front of the udder on the inside flank . |
| 12 | The US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs , Herman Cohen , visited Mauritius on Nov. 9-11 and reaffirmed that the USA would maintain a presence in the Indian Ocean region as long as it was considered necessary . |
| 13 | As a result any act was justifiable as long as it was performed with the working of the spirit . |