Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found Clelia 's company extraordinarily entertaining , and bracing only in so far as she liked to be braced : she could hardly follow a word , for instance , of the art references in her conversation , but Clelia managed somehow to combine a great air of erudition and abstruseness with a marked facility for making explanations , so that ignorance was no bar to amusement . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the dollar was the principal reserve asset , and was likely to remain so for as long as the rest of the world accepted dollars and the monetary authorities of individual countries did not exert their option of exchanging dollars for gold . |
| 3 | Fourthly , the 1966 White Paper made it plain that at that time it was the government 's intention that the polytechnics should remain primarily teaching institutions ; as the DES notes of guidance subsequently indicated , research would be justified only in so far as it was of educational value to the teaching staff and of benefit to industry and business . |
| 4 | Specifically , the history of English since about 1550 is often presented as what Lass ( 1976 : xi ) has called a ‘ single-minded march ’ towards RP and modern standard English , with divergent developments either excluded or admitted only in so far as they throw light on ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 5 | Then j–g properly for as long as you can . |
| 6 | Treaty should be considered only in so far as there are situations other than those covered by one or other of the specific provisions at issue here . |
| 7 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 8 | Stung to the quick , Kammerer retorted that : ‘ Boulenger was lucky for apparently his eggs developed normally for as long as 5 days before they died . |
| 9 | New inventions are applied only in so far as they fit existing missions and strategies determined in previous wars . |
| 10 | I have shopped here for as long as I can remember . |
| 11 | He delayed going upstairs for as long as possible , partly in a hopeless pretense of getting the papers finished with , and partly to avoid Sara . |
| 12 | Apart from resleeving the cylinders around three decades ago , it has continued to function satisfactorily for as long as anyone cares to remember ! |
| 13 | I 've found a place where we can sleep safely for as long as we like . " |
| 14 | The survey shows that crime is not rising anywhere near as fast as police figures suggest . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll of course stay here for as long as you like . |
| 16 | In nature these fish only come together to reproduce , and stay together for as long as is necessary to raise young . |
| 17 | ‘ You may rest here for as long as Moinet orders or you may rest in hospital . ’ |
| 18 | Whatever kind of mix you use to facilitate rapid dispersing when it sinks , thrown bait will not spread anywhere near as efficiently as a loose feed which can be spread accurately from a boat . |
| 19 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
| 20 | Thus , liability for death or personal injury arising from such a breach of contract can not be excluded or restricted at all ; liability for other loss or injury arising from such a breach can be excluded only in so far as the exclusion clause satisfies the requirement of reasonableness , Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , section 2 ( see paragraph 10–24 above ) . |
| 21 | His father 's been put away for as long as need be till he comes to his senses : he 's actually nuts . |
| 22 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 23 | The obligation will usually last only for as long as the information retains the necessary quality of confidence . |
| 24 | The primal father of the horde is masterful , self-confident , independent and absolutely narcissistic ; other people are loved only in so far as they serve his needs . |
| 25 | Such fears , however , should not be dismissed lightly in so far as genetic engineering is still in its infancy . |
| 26 | Then jog properly for as long as you can without getting uncomfortably out of breath . |
| 27 | Then jog properly for as long as you can without getting uncomfortably out of breath . |
| 28 | Then jog properly for as long as you can , still moving your arms . |
| 29 | Then jog properly for as long as you can without getting uncomfortably out of breath . |
| 30 | Then jog properly for as long as you comfortably can . |