Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] as [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number . |
| 2 | Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club . |
| 3 | The laughter fled from her eyes as quickly as it had come . |
| 4 | ‘ But then what do these Ministry Inspectors know about education ? ’ resumed the headmaster hastily , discarding doubts as quickly as he had assumed them . |
| 5 | You can write single line , multi statement functions so long as you have a colon after the definition statement . |
| 6 | Hence if a registered shareholder , A , first executes a transfer to a purchaser , B , and later to another , C , while both remain unregistered B will have priority over C. If , however , C succeeds in obtaining registration before B , he will have priority over B so long as he had no notice , at the time of purchase , of the transfer to B. If C did have notice , although he has been registered his prima facie title will not prevail over that of B who will be entitled to have the register rectified ( assuming that there are no grounds on which the company could refuse to register B ) and in the meantime C 's legal interest will be subject to the equitable interest of B. If both transfers were gifts , the position would presumably be different ; the gift to B would leave A without any beneficial interest that he could give to C and , not being a ‘ purchaser , ’ C could not obtain priority by registration ; his legal interest , on his becoming the registered holder , would be subject to the prior equity of B. |
| 7 | And no-one has covered Northern Ireland as thoroughly as we have : Panorama 's Dirty War examined the way British intelligence ran agent Brian Nelson ; Lethal Force tested the suspicion that men who could have been captured or wanted to surrender had been shot dead whilst a special on the Guildford Four broke new ground , exposing the role of the DPP 's office in withholding crucial evidence . |
| 8 | But a great man , a potens , in Charles 's kingdom could quit the scene as completely as he had momentarily seemed to dominate it : if he died leaving only young sons , or no sons at all , or if he moved to another Carolingian kingdom , Charles might redistribute his honores as he put it , voluntarie — " in accordance with my will " . |
| 9 | But when you 're a £2.5m striker who 's living up to his price-tag as spectacularly as he has done , there are always going to be people out to bring you down a peg or two . |
| 10 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
| 11 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 12 | Peta and Isobel fell in love with the place as surely as we have and they , like us , concentrated on the commonplace . |
| 13 | If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’ |
| 14 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 15 | I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom . |
| 16 | By the time of Waterloo , for those few who could afford the coaches , passenger travel was perhaps four times as fast as it had been in 1750 between major centres and twice as fast elsewhere . |
| 17 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 18 | Praying was ten times as hard as it had ever been in Africa , so was steering clear of hatred , a problem Isobel had never encountered before . |
| 19 | are employed in the construction industry — that may be why the effects of the recession have not hit Shrewsbury as hard as they have hit other parts of the country , although we have felt the cold wind . |
| 20 | On 4 July 1638 Alured got into serious trouble with the court for saying of the Scots that ‘ they did well ’ in opposing the king and he hoped ‘ they would reform this land by a parliament as well as they have done theirs already ’ . |
| 21 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 22 | People are like chameleons : they can adjust themselves to any environment so long as they 've no alternative . |
| 23 | He bent to kiss her and before she could recover he had pulled the sheets over her and walked out , closing the door and going down the stairs as softly as he had come up . |
| 24 | But his words had deflated Robbie 's anger as suddenly as it had blown up . |
| 25 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 26 | By the second year there was considerable disappointment that they had not developed the purchasing role as far as they had hoped . |
| 27 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 28 | In fact , if we all had sex as often as we had surveys we would n't have time to answer the surveys in the first place . |
| 29 | The stunned children filed out of the church as quietly as they had filed in . |
| 30 | Now he was slipping away from life as uncomplainingly as he had lived it . |