Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is fat chance of that for as long as the Government allows the banks to carry on with their grasping one-way policy . |
| 2 | The adulterer is the cause of this in so far as his/her act has allowed a superhuman being to attack the spouse . |
| 3 | Mr Hunt said of the changes in the poll tax rules for teenagers : ‘ A new wider exemption will apply to all young adults under the age of 20 for so long as they are still at school or in full-time further — though not higher -education . ’ |
| 4 | The black tarred roof had been ‘ like that for as long as I can remember . ’ |
| 5 | They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could . |
| 6 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 7 | Baffled Lilly , from Anfield , Liverpool , added : ‘ I 've been like this for as long as I can remember . |
| 8 | In this sense it has a similar role to that of the Office of Fair Trading in relation to UK competition rules such as the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 , the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , although in a number of respects and in particular in so far as the Commission has the power to take binding decisions , its powers are more extensive than the Office of Fair Trading . |