Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Mark them down with your knife down the back down here , you know , right down so as you had a mark .
2 For ‘ the game ’ was one that everyone played , and that was all right so long as you took your losses without squealing .
3 And Clara , overcome by the wonderful , felicitous acceptability of his offer , an offer so familiar to her , so marvellously manageable , trembled only most slightly as she said , staring down at the limp arrangements of her hands , " Oui , surement . "
4 It 'll be all right soon as he gets it . ’
5 This example of practical remembrance is paralleled in our other welfare facilities — at Sussexdown and Richard Peack House and the Eagle Lodges — and perhaps most importantly as we reach out through our Honorary Welfare Officers and out members to find and to help individuals in need .
6 If it does n't mean so much today as it did , it 's because rock is n't as strong as it was , it does n't matter so much anymore . ’
7 There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA .
8 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 .
9 Furthermore s. 2(4) European Communities Act 1972 provides that any Act of the Westminster Parliament shall be presumed not to conflict with EEC legislation , and will be given effect only so far as it does not conflict with the EEC legislation .
10 An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem .
11 Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ .
12 Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him .
13 Academics already in post retain their tenure only so long as they do not move to another university or accept promotion within their present university .
14 They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office .
15 Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run .
16 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 ’ .
17 The two figures have been kind of squelched together just as in , in Exodus there are two , sorry in erm in er Genesis there are two er Garden of Eden stories so they claim there are two Moses figures who have been erm as it were compounded together , but both of them says Freud were powerful religious leaders and they probably did give their followers moral principles , perhaps not exactly as we have but something very like it and so Freud is not sceptical about that .
18 So as far as I know there are no plans .
19 Only as far as they know she had n't seen a doctor . ’
20 I like you very much , Shelley , but I will come only as far as you ask me to . ’
21 As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with .
22 LADY DAVERS : You 'll break her spirit quite , brother , you 'll carry your passion as much too far as I have done .
23 She had remembered all too well as she spoke to Glyn .
24 Her hand shook only very slightly as she put the empty glass down on the table .
25 Just so long as we maintain the candidacy . ’
26 Just so long as we understand each other . ’
27 ‘ Good , ’ he said coldly , ‘ just so long as we understand each other .
28 But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity …
29 Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment .
30 ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’
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