Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 2 | 10.7.10 The rights and licences hereby granted or agreed to be granted to a Non-academic Party pursuant to Clauses 10.7.2 b to 10.7.6 shall be exercisable on identical terms by any Related company of that Party for so long as it remains such , subject to the obtaining from such companies of suitable undertakings as to confidence and delivery up . |
| 3 | The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change . |
| 4 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
| 5 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 6 | But the process does n't work ( that is , accord with our intuitions ) anything like as powerfully as it does in music . |
| 7 | For all those who scoffed at the idea of my mastering anything complex like Excel , I 'm pleased to say that I 've bought my first copy , and it 's nothing like as hard as I thought . |
| 8 | HE 'S the wackiest cop on TV — and he aims to make you groan like never before as he tries to crack his latest case . |
| 9 | What had come to the poets in their most serene or passionate moments we glided into as easily as we gathered flowers for Maud or Blanche or Mabel , as we lay in the grass with our eyes divided between the books , the land and the clouds . |
| 10 | For the present , then , the vital need is to do everything possible to secure a safe retirement of XH558 , where she will be cared for as well as she has been since becoming the VDF display aircraft . |
| 11 | That Madam , Gary used to say , she 's been forty for as long as we 've known her . |
| 12 | I 've found a place where we can sleep safely for as long as we like . " |
| 13 | The first items unpacked were trout-rods ; and they stayed up , ready and waiting for instant use for as long as we lived there . |
| 14 | Sophisticated dyes and colourings make it possible to hide this sign of age for as long as we wish and those in public life may , unfortunately , believe that only by covering the tell-tale grey will they maintain their credibility as energetic and creative top people . |
| 15 | Whatever we want from our lives now — the Booker Prize , a recording contract , a promotion , a Porsche convertible , the girl at the Virgin Megastore checkout desk — we can not possibly have coveted it for as long as we have cherished dreams of football glory , dreams which have remained fundamentally unchanged since childhood . |
| 16 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 17 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 18 | That same prize will elude the British for as long as they yearn for it publicly . |
| 19 | I 'm sure England will play all their games at Wembley for as long as they stay in . |
| 20 | To use an analogy from short sight : people who wear glasses are relieved of the effects of their short sight for as long as they continue to wear them and for as long as they remember that there are still some things ( such as seeing clearly underwater ) that they can not do even if they are wearing glasses . |
| 21 | The idea of ‘ care in the community ’ has developed over the past 20 years to encourage the development of services to help older people in need of care to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish , and for as long as is practical . |
| 22 | Having got this far they can rest on their laurels for as long as they wish . |
| 23 | My hon. Friends who will sit on the Committee will be entertained to hear that they can debate the Bill for as long as they wish , but sadly it will be open to the Government Whip to stand up whenever he wishes and move the adjournment . |
| 24 | Do they really go on for as long as they seem to , or are they , as some people have suggested , fleeting sensations before waking up ? |
| 25 | If the relatives are able to go to the mortuary or viewing room and be with the person who has died for as long as they feel it to be necessary , then they are more able to start absorbing the fact of their loved one 's death , because again they have the evidence in front of them . |
| 26 | Certainly , and not surprisingly , the higher stratum of more secure workers and to a lesser extent their families had access to better health and also housing provision in this period before the state played a significant role in either area — at least for as long as they remained in fairly regular work . |
| 27 | It is perhaps surprising , with Healings ' huge mill in nearby Tewkesbury , that a few mills such as Northway and particularly Aston , managed to function for as long as they did . |
| 28 | A more liberal choice proposed by the Shop Hours Reform Council — allowing large shops to open for up to six hours on a Sunday , and small ones for as long as they wanted — would encourage almost half of all shops to do so . |
| 29 | No one to stop them keeping her here for as long as they wanted . |
| 30 | The second interpretation can be arrived at by reading the provision in two parts : ( 1 ) judges ' commissions are to be made for as long as they behave themselves , implying that if they misbehave they may be dismissed by the Crown ; ( 2 ) they may be removed by the Crown on an Address of both Houses , even though they have not misbehaved themselves . |