Example sentences of "[adv] as they are [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as they are kept busy in Port-au-Prince until the morning , we can continue with only minor alterations . ’ |
| 2 | Wetland plants will be in their element , so long as they are given generous mulches to keep the moisture in . |
| 3 | In this case I am actually drawing with the brush and the colours will merge quite nicely as they are painted wet into wet . |
| 4 | Just as they are taught other subjects , they should increasingly be taught about such topics as mental handicap so that they do not grow up with the prejudices that their parents may possess . |
| 5 | There are of course many aspects of language usage that depend on these relations ( see e.g. Brown & Levinson , 1978 , 1979 ) , but these usages are only relevant to the topic of social deixis in so far as they are grammaticalized Obvious examples of such grammaticalizations are " polite " pronouns and titles of address , but there are many other manifestations of social deixis ( see Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 183-92 , 281-5 ; Levinson , 1977 , 1979b ) . |
| 6 | As such it certainly extends to local — and , as I think , also statutory bodies in so far as they are exercising autonomous rule . |