Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as they are [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as they are stimulated by low-frequency nervous impulses , such muscles can respond directly to stretching . |
| 2 | Detached garages with a floor area of less than 30sq m ( 325sq ft ) are exempt from control , so long as they are constructed wholly of non-combustible material ( which most garages are ) , or are more than 1m from the boundary in the case of wooden buildings . |
| 3 | So long as they are kept busy in Port-au-Prince until the morning , we can continue with only minor alterations . ’ |
| 4 | The master is liable for wrongful acts and defaults of his servant — though they may be unauthorized or even forbidden by him — so long as they are done within the scope of the employment . |
| 5 | Wetland plants will be in their element , so long as they are given generous mulches to keep the moisture in . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman will have read and re-read circular 7/91 which contains the exceptions policy , allowing homes to be provided on sites not normally designated as residential so long as they are aimed at local people . |
| 7 | The House of Lords held that parental rights are recognised in law only for so long as they are needed for the protection of the child . |
| 8 | We do not object to women working the keyboards , so long as they are paid the same wages as men . |
| 9 | His view is that consumers should be told the whole truth : ‘ If the public wants fish fingers made up of minced fish that 's OK , so long as they are told and can make up their own minds . |
| 10 | Polar adaptations of a few species , so far as they are recognized , are discussed in Chapter 6 . |
| 11 | Secondly , it is arguable that most other theories , e.g. those based on semantic components , can be subsumed within it , in so far as they are built on consistent and logical lines . |
| 12 | The smaller nations get short shrift on somewhat different grounds : in so far as they are affected by general trends , their history recapitulates that of the major states . |
| 13 | In so far as they are based upon analogy with the position of courts of law which are not under any such general duty , this reasoning is being undermined as the judiciary increasingly require some statement of reasons within judgments . |
| 14 | There are of course many aspects of language usage that depend on these relations ( see e.g. Brown & Levinson , 1978 , 1979 ) , but these usages are only relevant to the topic of social deixis in so far as they are grammaticalized Obvious examples of such grammaticalizations are " polite " pronouns and titles of address , but there are many other manifestations of social deixis ( see Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 183-92 , 281-5 ; Levinson , 1977 , 1979b ) . |
| 15 | As such it certainly extends to local — and , as I think , also statutory bodies in so far as they are exercising autonomous rule . |
| 16 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 17 | From inside that belief system the responses that are made to overload and pressure will seem , in so far as they are considered consciously , to be sensible , vital or even inevitable . |
| 18 | This Fact Sheet will be followed by a series of Briefing Papers for MPs , which will go beyond the facts to a description of the types of arguments that have been employed by researchers to study the causes of unemployment , including the possible effects so far as they are known of various remedies that have been proposed . |
| 19 | This can be seen in the example of river action : in climates with rain at all seasons erosion and deposition are almost continuous except in so far as they are varied by floods ; in areas marginal to ice sheets the short periods of summer thaw , which result in enormous increases in the discharge of meltwater streams issuing from the ice , are the significant ones ; in deserts it may well be that the isolated rainfall , occurring perhaps once every five or ten years , is of greater significance than anything else . |
| 20 | In the case of bodies other than courts , in so far as they are required to apply the law they are required to apply the law correctly . |
| 21 | Besides , even those who argue that the answer to women 's dependency/op-pression in the home is for them to take outside jobs ( as if the sort of jobs open to most women were in any way more congenial and less exploitative than housework , except in so far as they are paid ) and put their children into publicly funded day-care centres , must surely allow that some women ( as well as men , of course ) would choose freely to look after children , otherwise how are the centres to be staffed ? |
| 22 | The better opinion is that the pre-1926 priorities of the legal over the equitable estate , and of the earlier in time over the later , still apply , except in so far as they are abrogated by the provisions of the 1925 legislation . |
| 23 | In practice case management for people with long term mental illness has developed into a range of techniques that can be described along 12 different axes ( box 2 ) , which aim to ensure that patients with long term psychiatric disorders receive consistent and continuing services for as long as they are required and that services do not focus inappropriately on patients with less severe conditions . |
| 24 | Printed with a new thermal chromatic invisible ink , the animals and trees actually disappear from the T-shirt when you get hot — just as quickly as they are disappearing from the wild , in fact ! |
| 25 | Yesterday morning the Tories were rejoicing at the prospect of Bryan Gould splitting the Labour Party as deeply as they are split . |
| 26 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 27 | Although police remove the illegally-parked cars almost as fast as they are abandoned , the local body responsible for administering parking is insisting that someone pay the hefty excess charges incurred by the prolonged presence of other cars in legal spaces . |
| 28 | Obviously the factory system with its complicated industrial mechanism can not function profitably without a large and growing demand ready and willing to absorb its products as fast as they are produced . |
| 29 | In this garden annuals and bedding are used particularly well as they are dotted around perennials and shrubs , rather than grown together in a bedding scheme . |
| 30 | In this case I am actually drawing with the brush and the colours will merge quite nicely as they are painted wet into wet . |