Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as they [verb] " in BNC.

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1 There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA .
2 Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him .
3 Academics already in post retain their tenure only so long as they do not move to another university or accept promotion within their present university .
4 They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office .
5 Ministers of the Crown will no longer be responsible for the internal workings of such organisations , accept in so far as they fulfil their contractual obligations .
6 Only as far as they know she had n't seen a doctor . ’
7 The man on the rod would be unable to reel in fast enough as they ran down on the Zodiac .
8 But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity …
9 Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment .
10 ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’
11 Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value .
12 Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod .
13 Any birthday celebrations always seem to be over as swiftly as they begin , and the anticipation is probably just as important as the event itself , but a pressed flower picture can serve as a lovely memento .
14 Then deaths declined steeply as mysteriously as they had increased .
15 They believe that everyone should write as they do : not as well as they do , of course , but in the same fashion .
16 There is no doubt that their super-sensitive barbules detect our lines just as easily as they detect food , but , fortunately for us , they usually accept our offerings in spite of the obvious danger they have felt , though the same danger compels them to take the bait ‘ hit-and-run ’ style .
17 Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas .
18 Blackbirds , wrens and some others will mock a ferret just as readily as they mock any other predator .
19 And then , just as suddenly as they 'd started , they stopped .
20 Then , just as suddenly as they had grabbed at his throat , the hands released his windpipe and the weight lifted off him .
21 Although the skirt panels look perfectly flat when seen on air , in reality they follow varying angles to the original base vertical planes , bending ever so slightly as they rise up from the fender section to join up at the midriff .
22 Only later was this amended to allow the return of Yugoslavs home so long as they went willingly .
23 Too many pilots allow their glider to zoom up too steeply as they leave the ground .
24 I know that nowadays the congregations at chapels have sadly declined but if the services lasted as long today as they did in my childhood they would be empty altogether .
25 We are told that the global military expenditure every year amounts to £235,000 million , twice as much as the nations spend on health , and half as much again as they spend on education .
26 The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 .
27 I can not say whether or not they impinged as much then as they seem to with retrospect .
28 They can come back as often as they like . ’
29 Now as far as they know their money is coming .
30 The school parties stuck as rigidly together as they had done upon Victoria Station , lacking only their uniforms and labels , disastrously hampered by lack of space .
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