Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as they could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were even willing to occupy pre-moulded nests so long as they could carry out their normal movements before laying . |
| 2 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 3 | As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines . |
| 4 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 5 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |
| 6 | Thus when determining what contracts fall within or outside the ambit of s 3 , issues of reasonableness , equality of bargaining power and the possibility of negotiation are in fact not very relevant , except in so far as they could move a judge to finding that terms were standard or not in borderline cases . |
| 7 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 8 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |
| 9 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 10 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 11 | Afterwards Brewer said he could see Auckland holding the shield for as long as they could keep together their very strong scrum of Olo Brown , Sean Fitzpatrick , Steve McDowell , Michael Jones , Gary Whetton , Robin Brooke , Mark Carter and Zinzan Brooke — All Blacks all . |
| 12 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 13 | But now , the men on board ship above him were screaming , and with three holes fired on each side of the vessel , he gave the signal to bear away as swiftly as they could ply their paddles . |
| 14 | But advertising is itself extremely volatile and profits could take a dive as easily as they could soar . |
| 15 | British Rail asserts , and the hon. Member for Keighley said so again tonight , that in physical terms the planned exit of the lines from King 's Cross at the south-eastern corner of the new proposed station is such that lines could go to Stratford just as easily as they could have gone southwards . |
| 16 | This followed the line of the river , which ran straight from almost as far away as they could see , flowing smoothly without fords , gravel shallows or plank bridges . |
| 17 | A spokesman for Destiny Technology said settlement talks fell through because they ‘ were not moving as rapidly as they could have . ’ |
| 18 | His stretched knuckles tapped as far as they could reach . |
| 19 | As far as they could tell , it was the only thing which existed here , wherever " here " was , Everything else was snow ; the white plain . |
| 20 | As far as they could tell , the writing , by a ballpoint , was Egan 's . |
| 21 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 22 | He replied that it did seem strange to him too , but that at every stage God — as far as they could discern — had opened the way to do this . |
| 23 | As far as they could see , the walls were plain white , with evenly spaced-out black doors . |
| 24 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |
| 25 | And those beetles of yours — the ones that could n't get home because the sheet was moving almost as fast as they could walk — that must be how it is for light moving through our space . |
| 26 | As they got older they accompanied their parents in the evening too , running as fast as they could go for fear of being late for the six o'clock open air meeting in one of the streets . |
| 27 | They rode back up the valley as fast as they could go . |