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

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31 From September 1990 parents , and in some cases the pupils themselves , have a right to see the record in so far as it is made after 31 August 1989 .
32 Firstly , the blackboard is a passive data structure in so far as it is updated by a central processor , while the TRACE II is active , composed of many , very simple , independent , processing units .
33 BCG does not say ‘ invest and grow ’ here , but implies that investment should be made in so far as it is needed to maintain a favourable position ; BCG seems to be ambivalent here about the need to invest to increase market share .
34 Any deficiencies in this software may be forgiven in so far as it is distributed entirely free of charge ; no registration fee is requested by the author .
35 A striking example of their dissociation is provided by the following exchange : on the one hand , Runciman takes it for granted that methodological individualism is ‘ now generally conceded to be almost trivially true ’ , while on the other Torrance asserts that ‘ In so far as methodological individualism is true it is trivial and irrelevant to sociology , while in so far as it is used to curb or dictate explanatory methods it is either incoherent or false ’ .
36 Aristotle also doubted whether there could be time without thinking beings , since he regarded time as not merely succession but ‘ succession in so far as it is numbered ’ , and nothing can be numbered unless there is someone to do the counting .
37 So far as it is known , Noble has been the only born-deaf person ever to be a Freemason in Britain .
38 This means that the registering and monitoring arrangements need to be changed and that the statutory authorities need to establish through the joint planning mechanisms a way of incorporating these changes , that health and local authorities need to create a place for the private sector in the planning progress and that the role of bodies like the Mental Welfare Commission , the Hospital Advisory Service , the health councils needs to be extended to encompass and specifically address the whole business of monitoring the provision in the private sector in so far as it 's supported by public funds .
39 But the anti-clerical and anti-hierarchical sentiments , unless they undermined the faith and declared doctrine ( so far as it was understood ) , were not in themselves heretical .
40 His mission , in so far as it was to reconcile the Nationalists and Communists , was a failure and indeed could hardly have been expected to be otherwise .
41 you get a bit of paint on it I 'd have a job to get it off so I take them off , then put them on just as it 's going off , you know , so you got ta
42 Penelope lay among them , eating the cold leathery pizza — surely not quite as it was meant to be ? and drinking sweet tea .
43 If it covers the case only superficially there is the possibility of palliation and suppression without cure , the more so as it is repeated so frequently .
44 Does my right hon. Friend agree , however , that for 20 years he and his predecessors have pursued the will-of-the-wisp of power-sharing , devolved government ; and that , for as long as it is pursued , the IRA will believe , rightly or wrongly , that it will get us out in the end ?
45 The other unusual and perhaps best known characteristic of Trolls is that their flesh is able to regrow almost as quickly as it is damaged .
46 A host state may restrict the activities of a financial institution as far as it is justified by the general good .
47 This paint will run as far as it is allowed but will not bleed .
48 This paint will run as far as it is allowed but will not bleed .
49 Steers ( 1964 ) took up this point and argued that the structure and history , as far as it is known , of Blakeney Point pointed to a westwards movement of material in the long term view .
50 Furthermore , the Germans and others who in Freud 's time were antisemitic , but who had not yet , as far as it was known , introduced the Final Solution , had been coerced into Christianity quite recently in their history .
51 With their wingers , the ball is flashing across the face of goal as often as it is delivered in the air and Cantona will probably thrive on this sort of service .
52 Erm it would be wrong to say Wales is a weak region on the basis of this , it 's just not , does n't appear , or does n't expect to grow as strongly as it was growing .
53 We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s .
54 The next stage , provided the accumulation is not destroyed almost as fast as it is formed , is the colonisation of the incipient dune by marram grass , Ammophila arenaria .
55 Oxygen is much less soluble in water than carbon dioxide and in order for fish life to be sustained it must be replenished as fast as it is used up .
56 Eventually an equilibrium was reached , and although the Troll flesh was still there Grom was digesting it as fast as it was regrowing .
57 Whatever they ate they kept on getting ill , because Rabscuttle was hiding in the store-rooms and spoiling the food as fast as it was brought in .
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