Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 5 | ‘ Only as far as they know she had n't seen a doctor . ’ |
| 6 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 7 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 8 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 9 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 10 | Then deaths declined steeply as mysteriously as they had increased . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that their super-sensitive barbules detect our lines just as easily as they detect food , but , fortunately for us , they usually accept our offerings in spite of the obvious danger they have felt , though the same danger compels them to take the bait ‘ hit-and-run ’ style . |
| 12 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 13 | Blackbirds , wrens and some others will mock a ferret just as readily as they mock any other predator . |
| 14 | And then , just as suddenly as they 'd started , they stopped . |
| 15 | Then , just as suddenly as they had grabbed at his throat , the hands released his windpipe and the weight lifted off him . |
| 16 | Although the skirt panels look perfectly flat when seen on air , in reality they follow varying angles to the original base vertical planes , bending ever so slightly as they rise up from the fender section to join up at the midriff . |
| 17 | Only later was this amended to allow the return of Yugoslavs home so long as they went willingly . |
| 18 | I know that nowadays the congregations at chapels have sadly declined but if the services lasted as long today as they did in my childhood they would be empty altogether . |
| 19 | We are told that the global military expenditure every year amounts to £235,000 million , twice as much as the nations spend on health , and half as much again as they spend on education . |
| 20 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 21 | I can not say whether or not they impinged as much then as they seem to with retrospect . |
| 22 | Now as far as they know their money is coming . |
| 23 | The school parties stuck as rigidly together as they had done upon Victoria Station , lacking only their uniforms and labels , disastrously hampered by lack of space . |
| 24 | The factories on the east bank of the Medway were even worse off as they had no direct railway outlet and also a poor road system . |
| 25 | People just did n't take themselves quite so seriously as they do at Crufts . |
| 26 | He took Sotheby 's into the art financing business , and directed staff to cultivate potential buyers at least as carefully as they had hitherto cultivated sellers . |
| 27 | Once returns began to grow and disillusion amongst consumers had set in , the new players began to withdraw from the market almost as quickly as they had entered . |
| 28 | The storms seldom last long and the floods subside almost as quickly as they arise . |
| 29 | When they have moved forwards as far as they feel they want to go they then leave one of the bottles , place both their hands on the other and have to get back without touching the the floor with any part of their body . |
| 30 | Despite this , most people persist in proposing their ideas at least twice as often as they suggest them ! |