(complex conjunctions) so long as | on condition that | in the event that – English Grammar Profiler
Here are examples of ‘so long as’ and ‘on condition that’ meaning ‘only if’:
So long as they keep to themselves, it makes no difference to me.
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The house and grounds are left to the city of Gotham on condition that they never be demolished,
altered or otherwise interfered with.
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Here’s an example of ‘in the event that’ meaning ‘should something happen’:
I’m here to protect you in the event that someone tries to access your mind through your dreams.
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The English Grammar Profile C2 Point 122 in CLAUSES/conditional is defined as:
conditional subordinate clauses with a range of conjunctions (‘so long as’, ‘on condition that’, ‘in the event that’) with past, present or future reference.
Pearson lists two of these as GSE 64 B2
- a range of complex conjunctions in conditional statements (all three types).
- clause1 (action or event) + ‘on condition that/as long as/ providing that/provided that‘ + clause 2 (condition)
*‘provided that’ is listed at B2 in the EGP.
A search on iWeb corpus for:
so long as * *
1 SO LONG AS IT IS 2991
2 SO LONG AS THEY ARE 2674 3 SO LONG AS YOU DO 2379 4 SO LONG AS YOU HAVE 2005 5 SO LONG AS YOU ARE 1670 6 SO LONG AS IT ‘S 1501 7 SO LONG AS THERE IS 1324 8 SO LONG AS THEY DO 1227 9 SO LONG AS IT DOES 1004 10 SO LONG AS YOU ‘RE 976 11 SO LONG AS YOU CAN 903 12 SO LONG AS THEY HAVE 650 13 SO LONG AS YOU KEEP 577 14 SO LONG AS THERE ARE 569 15 SO LONG AS THEY ‘RE 547 16 SO LONG AS IT WAS 485 17 SO LONG AS WE ARE 410 18 SO LONG AS THEY CAN 397 19 SO LONG AS YOU KNOW 362
20 SO LONG AS THEY WERE 345
on condition that * *
1 ON CONDITION THAT HE WOULD 58
2 ON CONDITION THAT HE SHOULD 57 3 ON CONDITION THAT IT IS 43 4 ON CONDITION THAT THEY ARE 41 5 ON CONDITION THAT IT BE 32 6 ON CONDITION THAT THEY WOULD 32 7 ON CONDITION THAT THEY SHOULD 30 8 ON CONDITION THAT : 26 9 ON CONDITION THAT HE BE 25 10 ON CONDITION THAT HE NOT 24 11 ON CONDITION THAT THEY BE 23 12 ON CONDITION THAT HIS NAME 20 13 ON CONDITION THAT HE DOES 19 14 ON CONDITION THAT THEY NOT 18 15 ON CONDITION THAT THEY DO 17 16 ON CONDITION THAT HE WILL 16 17 ON CONDITION THAT IT WAS 16 18 ON CONDITION THAT SHE WOULD 16 19 ON CONDITION THAT THE DEFENDANT 16
20 ON CONDITION THAT HE ENTER 15
in the event that *
(sadly iWeb has imposed a 5 token limit on all searches!)
1 IN THE EVENT THAT THE 11325
2 IN THE EVENT THAT YOU 10759 3 IN THE EVENT THAT A 6630 4 IN THE EVENT THAT YOUR 2722 5 IN THE EVENT THAT ANY 2106 6 IN THE EVENT THAT AN 1856 7 IN THE EVENT THAT WE 1838 8 IN THE EVENT THAT THEY 1398 9 IN THE EVENT THAT IT 1360 10 IN THE EVENT THAT THERE 1346 11 IN THE EVENT THAT THIS 713 12 IN THE EVENT THAT ONE 614 13 IN THE EVENT THAT I 587 14 IN THE EVENT THAT SOMETHING 480 15 IN THE EVENT THAT HE 426 16 IN THE EVENT THAT SUCH 378 17 IN THE EVENT THAT SOMEONE 375 18 IN THE EVENT THAT NO 319 19 IN THE EVENT THAT ALL 220
20 IN THE EVENT THAT , 199