Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [pron] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | In the United States , the Library of Congress has been classifying and cataloguing audio-visual materials for many years , so long as they were deposited at the Library for copyright purposes . |
2 | Children , after all , he thought , looking at Abigail , were happy wherever they were , so long as they were loved … |
3 | And so long as they were eating out … |
4 | Apart from the implications of this for prayers and strategy , it was a comforting thought — so long as one was winning . |
5 | But Fritz was n't too perturbed what his rooms were used for — so long as he was paid , and many factions and organizations , both political and criminal , operating in London used the Warehouse Hotel , as it was called , for their meetings . |
6 | But he said , thoughtfully , that he believed the Robemaker would weave anything so long as he was paid sufficiently highly . |
7 | But — so long as it was made clear that this was a genuine option , and entirely voluntary — we are in favour of lenders in this country at least recommending insurance and pointing out its advantages . |
8 | The commodity might have been hides , jade , tobacco , salt or precious metals , so long as it was accepted as a means of discharging obligations . |
9 | He agreed to do homage so long as it was spelt out that Aquitaine should belong to him and his heirs for ever . |
10 | So long as I was looking for someone who might want to murder Michael Banks , I was getting nowhere . |
11 | Bread never went mouldy in Algeria , which meant that so long as I was prepared for a good chew , I could always buy enough to last to the next village . |
12 | No harm in picking up the extra dough , so long as I was doing my client 's work at the same time . ’ |
13 | In other words , FTC would be quite happy to share coverage of the game with the BBC and ITV , so long as there was give and take . |
14 | Their Lordships abstain from detailed discussions of these questions , in so far as they were developed in argument , for that would lead the Board to fall into precisely the errors against which Griffiths L.J . |
15 | Would-be ambassadors thus continued to be trained , in so far as they were trained at all , by the time-honoured method of acting as secretaries to older and more experienced diplomats , or by being attached in some subordinate capacity to one of their country 's embassies abroad . |
16 | In so far as they were looking forward , it was with a much more gradual pace of development in mind . |
17 | The Court of Appeal held that those transactions were valid so far as they were entered into for the purposes of interest rate risk management and not for trading purposes . |
18 | But the anti-clerical and anti-hierarchical sentiments , unless they undermined the faith and declared doctrine ( so far as it was understood ) , were not in themselves heretical . |
19 | His mission , in so far as it was to reconcile the Nationalists and Communists , was a failure and indeed could hardly have been expected to be otherwise . |
20 | In 1911 Law was known — in so far as he was known at all in the parliamentary party — as a spirited debater . |
21 | Joe saw Tony only briefly as he was working long hours . |
22 | It just it just takes the edge off it so it is a good tip actually it 's just if you 've time beforehand is just even as you were saying producing a thought pattern like this even just doing the first level just in pencil . |
23 | It seemed to be RAF policy to shift people around from time to time , usually just as they were beginning to take root somewhere . |
24 | ( 2 ) For as long as they were presenting the case , the prosecution had done so on the footing that it was section 18 or nothing . |
25 | I decided to try for as long as he was trying . |
26 | Determined to recover as quickly as possible , she sucked harder on the juice and asked the nurse for another one as soon as she was finished . |
27 | Moulds do not usually grow fast , and conditions had to be found in which large quantities of Penicillium notatum could be produced as quickly as they were wanted . |
28 | Riven was already thinking of bright hearths and warm beds as they made their way along the summits , following Bicker in single file now , their mounts ' hoofs throwing up bobbles of snow that were swept away into the air as quickly as they were kicked up . |
29 | Culley tracked left and found him again , startled by the way the image was drawn to stand before him , as if his voice must be heard , as if the man must see as clearly as he was seen — Levis , stetson , a loose shirt ; a rifle cradled in one arm . |
30 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |