Example sentences of "for [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The [ draft ] FRS requires such instruments to be accounted for wholly as a liability . |
| 2 | The hut had been cared for inside as well as out and it was being used . |
| 3 | Again , he could not have stayed for long as in 1680 he was back preaching in Mauchline . |
| 4 | Peace did not reign for long as he provoked the ultimate chop for himself by one day taking his scissors to all of the models ' heads and cropping them . |
| 5 | He took his seat in the House in February 1833 , but did not enjoy his position for long as , in the following month , he caught a chill and died in London 28 March 1833 . |
| 6 | This is proved by a letter from one Mr. Wildhagen to Sir William le Fleming and dated the 19 October 1721 : " hellip ; your honr know it is impossible for the men to work att your Fells of Conistone in the winter season for long as their houses are unbuilt , they haveing so far to come and go to thir lodgings … |
| 7 | Modigliani and Miller argue that this situation can not persist for long as it offers arbitrage profits to the individual investor . |
| 8 | But unfortunately this did not last for long as we came to a narrow , shallow strip of the river . |
| 9 | It clearly precludes the collection of data for its own sake , or just in case it might turn out to be useful ; and it requires that information shall be kept for only as long as it remains relevant . |
| 10 | There are probably about 50 stars within radio range if we assume that they have had radio technology for only as long as we have . |
| 11 | Well some are for tonight as well . |
| 12 | There were only three divisions in the city — east , west , and central — and each of us in our own division knew we were the élite ; for just as the men in the west were certain they were best , so the men from the east remained convinced of their own superiority . |
| 13 | The possibility of confusion is very great ; for just as Eleanor of Castile landed at Acre in 1270 , accompanying Edward on the seventh crusade , so Eleanor of Aquitaine had landed there 120 years before , accompanying her husband ( that is , her first , Louis VII of France ) on his crusade — which is presumably what Pound means by ‘ Acre , again ’ . |
| 14 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 15 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 16 | The selection of methods and resources is a major topic in itself , for just as there is no one best method of learning there is no one best method of teaching . |
| 17 | There is no set pattern for grieving , for just as no two people love in the same way , no two people grieve in the same way . |
| 18 | I have had a word with Swan and he has agreed to become your personal private aeroplane for just as long as you remain small enough to fly on his back . ’ |
| 19 | For just as the properties of individuals are dependent on their social context , the set of social relations which constitutes a practice does not exist in isolation . |
| 20 | For just as Marx , when faced with the problem ‘ How does man make his history ? ’ replied with another question , ‘ How is the man who makes history made ? ’ , so the proposal that the economic organisation of a society determines its superstructure should prompt us to ask how the base itself is determined . |
| 21 | Far from it , for he has matched his chosen designs to the theme of the growth of professionalism in architecture from the formation of the Architects ' Club in 1791 to the founding of the Institute of British Architects in 1837 ; and more than this , for just as architects strove for recognition in a professional world being transformed by the Industrial Revolution and new sciences , so does Worsley show us how this new breed of architect acquired technical proficiencies : in the presentation of drawings , in methods of copying and reproduction , in colour coding , and in advanced modes of perspective . |
| 22 | The King was on a royal throne near the entrance , and the two Bishops of Durham and Ely stood at his feet A good omen had encouraged Hugh for just as he reached the chapel steps he heard the choir in full voice chanting the words " Hail renowned bishop of Christ " . |
| 23 | For just as the British rejected the multimillion-pound blandishments by Suchard three years ago on behalf of richer , more bitter European chocolate , so Continental consumers are largely unimpressed by UK products . |
| 24 | I can sleep anywhere for just as long as I 've got . |
| 25 | For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed . |
| 26 | For just as the latter are then not receiving as much employment as they would normally like at the prevailing real wage rate , so the former are not providing as much as they would normally like . |
| 27 | The quay was deserted ; soon the Black Pig was floating out on the falling tide , and for once as they hoisted the mainsail the crew were well pleased to be going back to sea . |
| 28 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 29 | I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) . |
| 30 | But it was seeing her waving — standing there and seeming to wave for ever as she backed away from me . |