Example sentences of "as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Color Purple does not portray this same view as widely as The Outsiders , mainly because Celie is coloured and in the era that the book was set — 1920 's , racism was very strong and coloured people had no rights at all . |
| 2 | You think to yourself now what am I giving , what am I giving in the contribution box now as compared to one , two , three , four , five , years ago , it may be the same and it may be as much as you can afford , well if that 's so , then that 's grand is n't it ? |
| 3 | As long as the machine could be there too . |
| 4 | But America will be right to say no , as long as it has worries about its own inflation . |
| 5 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
| 6 | But , as long as they are in my hands , I can not bring myself to destroy any more , or anything written by you . |
| 7 | All is well as long as the subject is lying down , but when he stands up , the reflexes which normally make arteries all over the body contract to meet the new hydrostatic conditions no longer operate effectively , and a sharp and dangerous fall of blood pressure follows . |
| 8 | Any one of us may also apprehend an individual whom we know to be , or whom we have reasonable grounds for suspecting to be , guilty of such an offence as long as it has been committed . |
| 9 | As long as it was a boy . |
| 10 | She is now reasonably well as long as she is at home , but car journeys and other people 's houses usually bring her symptoms on again . |
| 11 | As long as its concern ( in the absence of a vision ) is for ‘ maintaining the ethos of Anglicanism ’ , it is doomed to grow old and cold and to die . |
| 12 | Or again , for the ruling class or race against which such a movement rebels , as long as its authority is secure there are very strong practical advantages in thinking of its subjects as incapable of governing themselves , happy and carefree in their poverty , innately inferior in intelligence , out of work only if lazy , loyal and grateful for all one has done for them unless misled by irresponsible agitators ; it is only when they start to be dangerously restive that it becomes practically useful to understand their motives and capacities better . |
| 13 | It 's the same with interest rates ; as long as they stay within a relatively narrow band , we can plan ahead . |
| 14 | The existence of a good counselling relationship will overcome such mishaps , as long as they are not too frequent or too insensitive . |
| 15 | Although you are changing colour every two rows , usually as long as long as you are changing between just two of your colours , the card is n't marked . |
| 16 | Use a strip of knitting as long as you want for your finished garland , sewn as you go so that you have a covered cone , about six inches of knitting unsewn , another cone — as long as long as you want your garland to be . |
| 17 | Many think that such profits will continue as long as big borrowers run the government . |
| 18 | In short , nothing that is in the process of development or change , strictly speaking , can be claimed to be numerically the same as long as this process lasts , for existents are individuated only by their full life-cycles . |
| 19 | The Ministry of propaganda did what it could to play down such disasters and tried for as long as possible to preserve the illusion that they were not important , but Fascism now began to lose a lot of its popular support . |
| 20 | Father dismissed all this as typical South American ferment , and believed that all would be well as long as we sang a hymn before breakfast . |
| 21 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 22 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 23 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 24 | Fred , I know you think you will never understand such things as long as you live . |
| 25 | Plotted on double logarithmic graph paper this emerges as a straight line making forecasting of costs for projected future batches of the same product a simple exercise as long as conditions are not seriously altered . |
| 26 | As long as nothing happens nothing will happen — okay ? |
| 27 | But , if the material is commonplace , there would be nothing to stop an ex-employee deriving the same or similar material again as long as he did not simply copy his employer 's material . |
| 28 | She says they treat all patients they same , as long as they pay . |
| 29 | Leaflets from different parties can be delivered at the same time as long as they are not folded together . |
| 30 | Milk distribution would work in the same way in that as long as the milk is put into the system at one point , it does not matter where it is taken out . ’ |