Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now breathe in slowly as you did in Step 1 but gradually raise your arms overhead in time with the inhalation until the backs of your hands touch the floor . |
| 2 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 3 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 4 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 5 | Modern society , it may be argued , is not like a set of neatly intermeshing and well-oiled cogs , but rather a game in which groups of players have considerable discretion so long as they keep within a set of rules which are often themselves rather loosely defined or at least open to negotiation and change . |
| 6 | ( p93 ) It would appear that as long as the buyer communicates the purpose for which the goods are required , he does not have to specify all of the particular applications so long as they fall within the scope of normal purpose . |
| 7 | So long as they believed in themselves they could make shift with constitutions and parliaments and dull republics . |
| 8 | That way everyone born after that particular time would have their sins forgiven so long as they believed in Jesus . |
| 9 | But it will be hard to accept that these people are serious about democracy — or can do much more to further its cause — so long as they stay in the same party as democracy-haters . |
| 10 | More generally on durability , it seems that the requirement that the goods be of merchantable quality is a continuing requirement that they will continue to be of merchantable quality for a reasonable period after delivery so long as they remain in the same apparent state as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . |
| 11 | In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock said that the condition of fitness for purpose was a continuing obligation ‘ that the goods will continue to be fit for that purpose for a reasonable time after delivery , so long as they remain in the same apparent state and condition as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . ’ |
| 12 | Independent soft-commission brokers regard it as an acceptable method of payment so long as they deal at the best price . |
| 13 | The former mandatory distinction , between brokers , who acted only as agents for their clients , and jobbers who acted only as market-making principals , has disappeared ; as a result of ‘ Big Bang ’ , firms may now act as either , so long as they disclose to the client whether they are acting as agents or principals . |
| 14 | By way of contrast members of a moral or rule-based association share nothing other than their recognition of the authority of those practices ; sharers of a common language , for example , may say what they like so long as they comply with the canons of that language . |
| 15 | So long as we looked upon the production of value and the value of the product of capital individually , the bodily form of the commodities produced was wholly immaterial for the analysis , whether it was machines , for instance , corn , or looking glasses . |
| 16 | But we can not explain why this is always objectionable , so long as we remain on the plane of justice as I have defined it . |
| 17 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 18 | ‘ We are very comfortable at Government House and Lady Franklin will not hear of our going from it so long as we remain in town . |
| 19 | This may provide another justification for the anthropic principle , for if all the histories are possible , then so long as we exist in one of the histories , we may use the anthropic principle to explain why the universe is found to be the way it is . |
| 20 | In the event it was 1928 before they finally left the course on loan to a Mr. Parsons so long as he looked after them . |
| 21 | It would be impossible to persuade anyone to act as trustee unless the discretion entrusted to him were very liberally conferred , and it is now possible for a trustee to delegate to an agent , not merely pieces of business requiring especial skill , but the whole business of the trust , and escape liability so long as he acts in good faith . |
| 22 | Wright — so long as he remained in exile — could write what he liked . |
| 23 | He knew he was safe so long as he remained in the kitchen . |
| 24 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on the plain words of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Rent Act 1977 a statutory tenant enjoyed that status so long as he remained in occupation of the dwelling house as his residence , and , therefore , the defendant had remained a statutory tenant after the possession order had been made ; that since she was neither a statutorily protected nor an excluded tenant within the meaning of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she was entitled to the protection of section 3 of that Act and could not lawfully be removed from the premises until the possession order had been executed in accordance with rules of court ; that since the only method of enforcement provided by the County Court Rules 1981 was by execution of a possession warrant in accordance with Ord. 26 , r. 17 , the plaintiff was not entitled to re-enter by other means ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Act of 1988 ( post , pp. 879B , 881D–E , G–H , 882A–B , B–C , 883C–E ) . |
| 25 | He believed that so long as he remained in the Government the Press attacks would continue and that his supposedly malevolent influence would be blamed for every failure . |
| 26 | The tsar had been enthusiastic about change so long as he remained in the orbit of Elena Pavlovna , but in St Petersburg his convictions or his courage deserted him . |
| 27 | ‘ So long as it stays like that . ’ |
| 28 | It explained everything , though she fought it , fought the nightmare truth of her growing feelings for him , her respect , her admiration , her jealousy , her pain , her longing to make him feel something for her , anything , so long as it came from the heart and not the body … |
| 29 | So long as it remains within 8″ of its regiment during the game , the detachment may take any leadership-based tests on the leadership value of the parent regiment , including any bonuses that apply for standards , magic items , and so forth . |
| 30 | So long as it remains in this room , he wrote , it is not finished . |