Example sentences of "[adv] as they are [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tolerate most soils so long as they are well drained and do not lie wet in winter and would prefer a sheltered position away from the worst of the winter 's cold winds . |
| 2 | Third , from a methodological perspective , perspective , mentalistic accounts are seen as valid so long as they are closely tied to observations , so that any proposed link between behaviour and underlying knowledge is subject to rigorous scrutiny and ultimately to falsification through additional empirical enquiry ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 3 | Self-contradiction is natural in the human make-up ; inconsistencies are not worrying in themselves , so long as they are n't planted by memoir-writers or biographers putting down other biographers . |
| 4 | Deer can be hunted , for example , whatever the reason , and nothing wrong is done so long as they are not overhunted . |
| 5 | Speakers of languages like Japanese , Hungarian and Spanish , which do not have weak syllables to anything like the same extent as English does , may well find such exercises of some value ( as long as they are not overdone to the point where learners feel they have to speak English as though they were reciting verse ) . |
| 6 | Leaflets from different parties can be delivered at the same time as long as they are not folded together . |
| 7 | So long as they are not excluded candidates having " too few " votes must be allowed to collect if they can enough transferred votes to bring them up to the quota . |
| 8 | Rhetorical questions work , then , when they are answered in what follows , and so long as they are not over-used . |
| 9 | It is important that this potentially very valuable approach safeguards itself so far as possible against misinterpretation : in particular , that the content of religious belief does not really matter , that knowledge of religious tradition is unimportant , and that any opinions and beliefs are acceptable so long as they are sincerely held . |
| 10 | There are so many tribes of Orcs that it is impossible to count them , especially as they are constantly breaking up and reforming under the leadership of new ambitious Orc Warlords . |
| 11 | Put oil into a clear glass bottle , then add spikes of lavender flowers , picked just as they are about to open . |
| 12 | The saucy six RUN their hands up the men 's legs just as they are about to make a vital shot . |
| 13 | ‘ What happens is that just as they are about to speak , they take a quick breath , ’ explains Angela Caine . |
| 14 | It pays to use a sterilised rooting compost , or a medium such as horticultural vermiculite , rather than garden soil , but these may contain minimal nutrients , so pot up into a potting compost as soon as they are well rooted . |
| 15 | These tax rates can be regarded as progressive , proportional or regressive , though such terms must be defined strictly as they are often used loosely . |
| 16 | ( a ) Under the Partnership Act As already mentioned , Pt II of the Partnership Act contains certain basic provisions to regulate the rights and duties of partners in so far as they are not defined in writing or otherwise discernible in some course of conduct . |
| 17 | Political sociologists , in so far as they are not engaged in mainly descriptive and historical studies , now devote much of their effort either to analysing methodological problems of the kind which I outlined in the Introduction , or to reappraising and reinterpreting those nineteenth-century theories in which the ideas with which I have been concerned throughout this book — democracy , class , capitalism , socialism , the nation — were originally formulated and diffused . |
| 18 | No action is needed today as they are not encroaching into the British Sector . |
| 19 | ‘ My aspirations were then as they are now to make it my business to make clothes . |