Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowledge , teaching and learning are only justified in so far as they contribute to that much more ambitious end . |
| 2 | This ‘ immediacy ’ of meaning in oral society he relates to the society 's functional needs , citing Malinowski 's claim that ‘ in the Trobriands the outer world was only named in so far as it yielded useful things ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 3 | Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) . |
| 4 | It ended : ‘ Nonetheless , I consider myself to have been blessed to have had the chance to so serve for as long as I did . ’ |
| 5 | Roosevelt thought that Korea would be suited to trusteeship for an undefined period , which could perhaps last for as long as forty years . |
| 6 | Another group of researchers , this time in Sweden , has discovered that this protective effect does n't only last for as long as the baby is breastfed . |
| 7 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 8 | Later , Patrick discovered that Tracey 's tree would not balance as one rod was not pushed in as far as the others . |
| 9 | Norm then told him to carry on just playing for as long as he could . |
| 10 | In classical homoeopathy a single dose of a high potency is given to the patient and , assuming improvement , is not repeated for as long as the patient continues to improve . |
| 11 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 12 | Technically it does not : the right is still upheld in so far as the jury are told that no inferences can be drawn from silence in the face of allegations . |
| 13 | The earliest industrial sites are now often looked after as carefully as those of abbeys and castles . |
| 14 | Admittedly , he says , some behaviour is regarded as externally caused in as far as the real explanation is not the intentional one . |
| 15 | The request that you have done me the honour to make , to receive the record of my voice , is one that I cheerfully comply with so far as lies in my power ; though I lament to say that the voice which I transmit to you is only the relic of an organ the employment of which has been overstrained . |
| 16 | ‘ I said when I came to Pittodrie that I wanted to go on playing for as long as possible , ’ Aitken said afterwards . |
| 17 | True Londoners were sobered up by what was happening to their town , but young fellows , sometimes coming from as far as California , felt very lost and lonely , and sometimes escaped via the bottle . |
| 18 | The premium is then fixed for as long as you continue the Plan , even when you cross into other age bands , and no matter how times you claim against it . |
| 19 | Yasmin is expecting another child in the autumn and , although she will have to make some difficult decisions about whether or not to continue with her career after the baby is born , she is still determined to carry on working for as long as she can . |
| 20 | As soon as one person 's work has been built into the computer , it stays there and goes on working for as long as needed . |