Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as it is [verb] " in BNC.

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31 Any deficiencies in this software may be forgiven in so far as it is distributed entirely free of charge ; no registration fee is requested by the author .
32 A striking example of their dissociation is provided by the following exchange : on the one hand , Runciman takes it for granted that methodological individualism is ‘ now generally conceded to be almost trivially true ’ , while on the other Torrance asserts that ‘ In so far as methodological individualism is true it is trivial and irrelevant to sociology , while in so far as it is used to curb or dictate explanatory methods it is either incoherent or false ’ .
33 Aristotle also doubted whether there could be time without thinking beings , since he regarded time as not merely succession but ‘ succession in so far as it is numbered ’ , and nothing can be numbered unless there is someone to do the counting .
34 So far as it is known , Noble has been the only born-deaf person ever to be a Freemason in Britain .
35 If it covers the case only superficially there is the possibility of palliation and suppression without cure , the more so as it is repeated so frequently .
36 Does my right hon. Friend agree , however , that for 20 years he and his predecessors have pursued the will-of-the-wisp of power-sharing , devolved government ; and that , for as long as it is pursued , the IRA will believe , rightly or wrongly , that it will get us out in the end ?
37 The other unusual and perhaps best known characteristic of Trolls is that their flesh is able to regrow almost as quickly as it is damaged .
38 A host state may restrict the activities of a financial institution as far as it is justified by the general good .
39 This paint will run as far as it is allowed but will not bleed .
40 This paint will run as far as it is allowed but will not bleed .
41 Steers ( 1964 ) took up this point and argued that the structure and history , as far as it is known , of Blakeney Point pointed to a westwards movement of material in the long term view .
42 With their wingers , the ball is flashing across the face of goal as often as it is delivered in the air and Cantona will probably thrive on this sort of service .
43 The next stage , provided the accumulation is not destroyed almost as fast as it is formed , is the colonisation of the incipient dune by marram grass , Ammophila arenaria .
44 Oxygen is much less soluble in water than carbon dioxide and in order for fish life to be sustained it must be replenished as fast as it is used up .
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