Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as it [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 2 | Writing a doctorate on the British response to the church conflict in Nazi Germany , I was well aware that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had refused to grant that the established national Protestant Church was in fact a Christian church so long as it refused to ordain people who were racially Jewish . |
| 3 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 4 | Section 296A(1) also makes any term or condition in an agreement void in so far as it purports to prohibit or restrict the use of any device or means to observe , study or test the functioning of a computer program in order to understand the ideas and principles underlying any element of the program . |
| 5 | We will not follow Gassendi in much of this , but it will be of interest to note what he says in so far as it relates to experience . |
| 6 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 7 | The chapter sets the tenor for the whole work in so far as it tries to examine the social conditions under which blacks became involved in sport , first in the USA and then in Great Britain . |
| 8 | ( b ) by finding that a domestic statute passed prior to entry is repealed by implication by the European Communities Act 1972 in so far as it fails to accord with our community obligations and thus does not represent the latest intention of Parliament ; |
| 9 | Pulling power may be slightly down as it Deems to fall off quickly against head winds or uphill gradients , when running constant changing up and down with overdrive even on the level . |
| 10 | A spokesman said the seven Kurds released from Haslar detention centre , near Gosport , Hampshire , and all 18 from Gloucester Prison were given temporary admission ‘ for as long as it takes to assess their cases ’ . |
| 11 | With its inflation still rising , the country on the verge of a perilous wage-price spiral and public finances deeply in the red , the Bundesbank has made it clear that it will keep the German economy locked in a vice of high interest rates for as long as it takes to squeeze out inflation . |
| 12 | The heating is switched on only for as long as it takes to dry the washing . |
| 13 | He said the atmosphere at each gathering had been one of calm , loving concern , and this would continue for as long as it took to get the children home . |
| 14 | ‘ Again , I lived with Mike for as long as it took to get the divorce and then I arranged the wedding . |
| 15 | However , as Ketamine lacks the euphoric and social properties that led o the widespread use of MDMA , the drug is likely to disappear as suddenly as it seems to have emerged . |
| 16 | Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ? |
| 17 | We were pleased to have your Easter card , and hope that the year continued as well as it seems to have begun . |