Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pragmatist might suggest that precision is fine only so long as everyone understands the term : in fact , Pulex irritans is less obviously a flea , than ‘ flea ’ . |
| 2 | Just so long as we understand each other . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Good , ’ he said coldly , ‘ just so long as we understand each other . |
| 4 | So long as they understand or we have communicated to them , why we want them to do that . |
| 5 | So long as they understand that there 's this also the erm you know er said to me , Oh it 's just English sort of said differently . |
| 6 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 7 | I explained that the meeting could elect anything it wished so long as it understood that the ‘ original organisers , … would make up their own minds what status , if any , to accord those elected . |
| 8 | ‘ Ask by all means , so long as you understand how limited my freedom may be to answer . ’ |
| 9 | And so as I understand it that 's the situation |
| 10 | Er medically , as best as I understand what the doctors tell me , er I 'm er fine to carry the responsibilities and strain of er the cabinet job that I had . |
| 11 | on this , and I 'll reiterate this , is the process that we go through as I understand it for introducing procedures , is that we take a diagonal slice through the organization er in other words there 's a draft procedure produced . |
| 12 | Soon as you understand one part of what it means , you lose any chance of understanding the rest . ’ |
| 13 | Partly of course because as soon as you understand it you say , ‘ Oh , yes , of course , how easy , how simple ! ’ |
| 14 | As long as historical materialism no longer saw itself as involved in the objective crisis complex , as soon as it understood its critique exclusively as positive science and the dialectic objectively as the law of the world , then the ideological character of consciousness had to take on a metaphysical quality … . |
| 15 | ‘ I have contacted Bruno 's lawyer and told him to tell Frank that if he wants to fight Lennox he should get in contact with us directly as I understand that Duff 's promotional contract expires in April . |
| 16 | Now as I understand it the minister 's position is that he be bound to refer that matter to the partner responsible for audit and that partner er would then be put on notice that er he ought to report it to the relevant authority . |
| 17 | Yes , yes , they 're out of the youth cup now as I understand . |
| 18 | Therefore this was a battle now as he understood a battle , however mangled beforehand by being half-decided at a distance . |
| 19 | It was obviously different from the religion of Jesus , as far as we understand it , and also from the Jewish vision of St Paul , who had been the first to bring the semitic faith to the hellenistic world of the Roman empire . |
| 20 | Our efforts to meet the company have so far been unsuccessful , but as far as we understand from the AEU ( which has a single union agreement with Montupet ) , there are no special mechanisms to target recruitment and training on the unemployed and it is worth bearing in mind that the code of practice of the new Fair Employment Act puts the idea of the merit principle above that of equality of outcome or the achievement of social justice . |
| 21 | As far as I understood , I was n't taking part in a vendetta against the German race . ’ |
| 22 | I explained , falteringly , my motives — at least , as far as I understood them myself . |
| 23 | In so far as I understand the logic here , heterosexual sodomy is surrogate homosexuality and homosexual sodomy is surrogate heterosexuality — or rather surrogate heterosexual incestuous genital intercourse . |
| 24 | As far as I understand it , it was Angela who pursued the interest in Tony DeFries . |
| 25 | But the ability to produce such phrases does not constitute communicative competence in so far as I understand the concept ( Widdowson 1978 , 1979 , 1983 , 1984a , 1989 ) , or as discussed in , for example , Canale and Swain 1980 , and Bachman 1990 . |
| 26 | As far as I understand from the gossip there 's nothing 'll come out of it by goin' to the polis ; it 's got to come from Parliament . |
| 27 | As far as I understand there is not real move to do anything about the current trend for teams to kick the ball from 22 to 22 . |
| 28 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 29 | When the union representative Alex Ross was asked by a Royal Commission whether he would " ask a woman to lock up a form ( sic ) " , he replied spontaneously , " Oh yes , they can do that as far as I understand " . |
| 30 | ‘ As far as I understand it , the individual actors made their own arrangements . ’ |