Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They seem unskilled in the simple acts that console women when they are distressed — like being held gently for as long as they need to be held , making murmuring noises rather than using words ( or even worse , forming sentences ) , wiping tears away and blowing noses … in other words giving the same comfort which you would give to a child . |
| 3 | Corporatism tends to " fit " the facts best with respect to the major functional economic groupings of capital and labour ; with respect to issues of economic policy ( especially in so far as they concern incomes ) in periods of boom when labour can not be easily disciplined by market forces ; and at the level of the central state . |
| 4 | Over the past few years , part of the Left in Britain has moved into a more considered view as to the limits of elements of the British constitution , at the same time as it has become increasingly alive to the merits of elements of that same constitution — especially in so far as they bear on the issues of democracy , the sovereignty of Parliament and the people , and civil liberties . |
| 5 | The debate over the respective roles of nuclear and conventional arms was inevitably bound up with questions of authority and influence within Nato , especially in so far as they related to the possible use of nuclear weapons , and to their proliferation within the alliance . |
| 6 | But this was a drama , the story of the circumstances of Van Gogh 's life ; ‘ No attempt has been made , ’ wrote Meier-Graefe , ‘ to make a critical analysis of the pictures , which enter upon the scene only in so far as they concern the drama directly or indirectly . ’ |
| 7 | They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world . |
| 8 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |
| 9 | But this does not mean that it is fitted only to be used on matters at the extreme end of the spectrum of abstraction — that it can , for instance , discuss people only in so far as they are rational beings , or sets of behaviour-patterns , or immortal souls . |
| 10 | The primal father of the horde is masterful , self-confident , independent and absolutely narcissistic ; other people are loved only in so far as they serve his needs . |
| 11 | Definitions are useful only in so far as they encapsulate a particular conception or theory of the phenomena one wishes to study . |
| 12 | Specifically , the history of English since about 1550 is often presented as what Lass ( 1976 : xi ) has called a ‘ single-minded march ’ towards RP and modern standard English , with divergent developments either excluded or admitted only in so far as they throw light on ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 13 | Since s. 2(2) OLA 1957 requires the occupier to take such care as is reasonable to see that visitors will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which they are invited or permitted by the occupier to be there , lawful visitors will be owed a duty only in so far as they remain within the scope of their invitation or permission to be on the premises . |
| 14 | Tied cottagers received protection under the Rent Act 1957 only in so far as they were ‘ tenants ’ who were entitled to four weeks ' notice to quit and could not be evicted without prior warning . |
| 15 | New inventions are applied only in so far as they fit existing missions and strategies determined in previous wars . |
| 16 | Sufferers get better in the Fellowships ; treatment centres and counsellors are of value only in so far as they help sufferers towards an understanding of the principles and processes of the Fellowships . |
| 17 | Accounting statements from the past were relevant only in so far as they provided some clue to future cash surpluses . |
| 18 | But in his analyses of kinship relations or of cooking , for example , Lévi-Strauss 's approach is based entirely on the assumption that they are systems which are structured like a language ; that is to say , that their individual elements have meaning only in so far as they are part of an overall system . |
| 19 | With pragmatism truth and usefulness become fused : ‘ ideas … become true just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relations with other parts of our experience . ’ |
| 20 | No one to stop them keeping her here for as long as they wanted . |
| 21 | But as far as I 'm concerned , they 're welcome to be here for as long as they need . ’ |
| 22 | The development of such trading centres is only relevant here in as far as they point to the direction in which economy was evolving in the sixth and seventh centuries . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 25 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |