Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] as it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 2 | I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number . |
| 3 | Clearly , this must be the case so long as it remains the only easily available platform for interactive multimedia . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) A covenant by the lessee for the repair of the premises is of no effect so far as it relates to the matters mentioned in subsection ( l ) ( a ) to ( c ) , except so far as it imposes on the lessee any of the requirements mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) ( a ) or ( c ) . |
| 5 | To quote that part of this Act so far as it affects a member of a local authority may be useful . |
| 6 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 7 | Hence section 252 provides that a private company ( whether or not small or medium-sized ) may elect ( by elective resolution in accordance with section 379A ) to dispense with the laying of accounts , and this dispensation applies in respect of the financial year in which the election is made and to subsequent financial years so long as it remains in force . |
| 8 | It is clear then that the DUP will receive the votes of the working-class loyalists so long as it retains an image of being more unionist than the Officials , unless there should be an alternative to the right of the DUP . |
| 9 | This argument seems to me sound so far as it goes , but it does not go very far . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | because the verderers … and … the Steward of the Forest made no mention in their rolls of the name of the said page , nor of his delivery , nor of his escape , and the business of the King so far as it relates to the said boy is entirely undone , therefore they are in mercy . |
| 12 | The sunflower does not learn by experience to turn its head more effectively as it matures , or not to turn at all if it is repeatedly electrically shocked every time it does so . |
| 13 | Darwin 's concept of evolution may hold water as far as it goes , but without the inclusion of an omnipotent ‘ Master Mind ’ , working from outside to plan the possibility of purposeful development , it makes no sense to me at all . |
| 14 | Secondly , what would happen to the profitability of Britain 's least successful credit operators if it reacted to the credit demand signals of customers as rapidly as it responds to their credit risk signals ? |
| 15 | To counter this , water is secreted into a contractile vacuole as fast as it enters the amoeba . |
| 16 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 17 | The exchange rate is excellent and you 'll find a pound goes three times as far as it does in Britain ( a feast in a good restaurant can be less than £3 ) . |
| 18 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 19 | ‘ Cheap electricity 's the answer to the first — sod the cost to the environment so long as it keeps down the cost to the consumer . |
| 20 | it is a good theory so far as it goes . |
| 21 | And what I want to do today is to talk about Totem and Taboo rather more as it looks back , than as it looks forward , and not just to , to the past in Freud , but to the past in other respects , as you will see . |
| 22 | By and large , Parliament and the judiciary have taken the view that free speech is a very good thing so long as it does not cause trouble . |
| 23 | Erm we 've we 've actually developed social housing really rather as it 's been an opportunity we 've grabbed it and we 've done it , you know , some of it 's been very very good an and nobody 's knocking that but I think it is time that we took stock and actually had a a proper policy and a proper strategy on sa on social housing . |
| 24 | Furthermore , it appears that electronic exchanges have wider bid-ask spreads , which might be a reflection of inadequate liquidity due to the lack of locals ( although there seems to be no inherent reason why individuals trading on their own account could not use an electronic system so long as it enables the scalping and other arbitrage trading practices typically carried out by locals ) . |
| 25 | Since recessive threats to the money markets occurred in the ‘ big bangs ’ of the 1980s , the enterprise culture has shown it can remove jobs as quickly as it creates them . |
| 26 | It has widespread support in the House as far as it goes , but missing is legislation to protect against victimisation . |