Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
| 2 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 3 | Not so long as we 've got the stuff . |
| 4 | Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) An applicant shall not be treated as having failed to comply with subsection ( 2 ) ( b ) above if the notice is , without any fault or intention of his , removed , obscured or defaced before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered , so long as he has taken reasonable steps for its protection and , if need be , replacement . |
| 6 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 7 | There 's also a guy called Ron Tyson who collects every magazine article ever written about Hendrix … so long as it 's got Hendrix on the front cover . |
| 8 | I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number . |
| 9 | So long as I 've got somebody now there 's nobody along here . |
| 10 | You 've lost your ships , you 've lost your friends in Ireland , you 've lost the Lady Emma and the active support of the Pope , but you 're still strong enough to stop Harald of Norway from using you as a base , and you 're no threat to Wessex so long as you get rid of those Normans . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’ |
| 12 | SO LONG AS YOU 'VE GOT YOUR ELF , THAT 'S THE MAIN THING ! |
| 13 | That 's capitalism and you , so long as you 've got buyers and sellers you get this antagonism of interest between buyers and sellers . |
| 14 | If they are lost or stolen , you can recover their value so long as you have kept a note of their numbers separately . |
| 15 | Here 's money for my meat ; I would have left it on the board , so soon As I had made my meal ; and parted With prayers for the provider |
| 16 | He had seen Nehushtah only once as she 'd weaved her way , in a froth of acolytes , across the gardens . |
| 17 | I think that so far as we 've got . |
| 18 | We , we are er Chairman involved in Redhill proposals in so far as we have submitted erm a series of er points to the local authorities concerned and tomorrow er as it happens is the date for the pre-enquiry meeting , the enquiry is due to be held er in I think late spring May er time , I 'm not sure of the exact date |
| 19 | In so far as they have grown up in an ad hoc fashion , designed by the art colleges on an individual basis , it is difficult to generalize about them . |
| 20 | so far as they have made some er adjustment , we will be able to judge whether the scale of adjustment they 've made was a was a reasonable thing . |
| 21 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 22 | Assuming , then , that your memory of the principal facts of your subject , so far as you have studied it , is proving adequate , how can you improve the results of study by further techniques ? |
| 23 | He was grappling to define love itself , in so far as he had experienced it and now understood it . |
| 24 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
| 25 | The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 . |
| 26 | But managing director Mr Peter Jarvis admitted : ‘ Because of the squeeze on spending , retailing , particularly in the South-east , is not doing so well as we had hoped . ’ |
| 27 | She would not let herself be diverted ; she would go on exactly as she had planned . |
| 28 | Sadly , I can not share your optimistic conclusion , which implies we will always muddle through together as we have done so often in the past . |
| 29 | But her radio was in place , her maps and street guide and other papers were still present although not exactly as she had left them . |
| 30 | Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted . |