Example sentences of "[adv] as it [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple .
2 But America will be right to say no , as long as it has worries about its own inflation .
3 The combination is dramatic and somehow unexpected in a senecio , especially as it takes place in autumn when most other border perennials have flowered and then faded .
4 All I could offer was a hatchback whose tyres puncture as soon as it catches sight of anything other than motorway .
5 For this reason EC Directives in the 1960s provided for the repeal of such legislation ( in so far as it affected nationals of member states ) as the requirement of West German law that foreign companies wishing to pursue business activities in West Germany must obtain special authorisation from the West German authorities .
6 Such an interpretation now appears at best inadequate , not only because monopoly capitalism ( that is , capitalism in which large corporations dominate the economy ) , so far as it escapes regulation by the interventionist state , seems quite compatible with a liberal democratic regime ; but also because the rise of fascism depended upon a number of other factors .
7 On a more general level it is possible to say that since painting is in any case an art of illusion , in so far as it conveys sensations of volume and depth on a two-dimensional surface , it was easier for the Cubists to break with traditional conventions , to push the ‘ illusion ’ one step further , and to invent a new pictorial language , than it was to find a new way of dealing with the solid , tangible forms themselves .
8 On the other hand , the very pursuit of ‘ respectability ’ , especially in so far as it involved claims to status recognition and participation in local institutions , was a source of social tension , a focal point in the growth of class identity .
9 Thus Article 92(1) states that , " any aid granted by a Member State or through State resources in any form whatsoever which distorts or threatens to distort competition by favouring certain undertakings or the production of certain goods shall , in so far as it affects trade between Member States , be incompatible with the common market " .
10 As the work of a man who is not only a poet but a Catholic poet , Paradiso is hardly a typical case , but the sheer volume of fiction produced in Spanish America in recent decades — and continues to be produced — scarcely betokens a general collapse of confidence in the written word , and it is noteworthy that Cabrera Infante 's Three Trapped Tigers , for example , re-creates the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Havana even as it casts doubt on the feasibility of such an enterprise .
11 The victim settles horizontally , floating downwind as it waddles side to side , then gently descends to the earth .
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