Example sentences of "[adv] as it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ideology relating to gender roles underpins the structure of sociology much as it does the structure of social life . |
| 2 | Indeed , it is most unlikely that Israel will give up its nuclear capability in the foreseeable future , so long as it foresees a threat to its land from its neighbour . |
| 3 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
| 4 | It is clear then that the DUP will receive the votes of the working-class loyalists so long as it retains an image of being more unionist than the Officials , unless there should be an alternative to the right of the DUP . |
| 5 | He might feel that any heir , even one who disinherits him , is worth having so long as it keeps the name going . ’ |
| 6 | The compensation deal will cost the government an estimated A$100m and involves Canberra waiving airport landing charges for as long as it takes the airlines to recoup their losses from keeping about 21,000 non-pilot employees on their staff during the dispute . |
| 7 | Furthermore , it appears that electronic exchanges have wider bid-ask spreads , which might be a reflection of inadequate liquidity due to the lack of locals ( although there seems to be no inherent reason why individuals trading on their own account could not use an electronic system so long as it enables the scalping and other arbitrage trading practices typically carried out by locals ) . |
| 8 | But at least it pays no rent and in practice it is secure so long as it farms the land and avoids bankruptcy . |
| 9 | So long as it invested the money in buses , that was all right . |
| 10 | It need not be accurate so long as it shows the disposition of the rooms — — information which will be of great value later . |
| 11 | NEXT loops execute at integer speed whether or not the control variable is an " integer variable " ( % type ) , so long as it has an integer value . |
| 12 | Further discussion on the domestic division of labour can be found in chapter 4 , section 4.3 , especially as it affects the inequality between men and women . |
| 13 | I thoroughly enjoyed the film on Woodcuts by Rigby Graham ( On Board productions , Peterborough PE3 8SB ) , especially as it underlines the fact that printmaking need not involve a lot of expensive and complicated equipment . |
| 14 | As a safety measure , the warhead completes its arming process only as it nears the target . |
| 15 | Let the hand spring away as it touches the skin . |
| 16 | It will take a second Pearl Harbor for the Americans to realise how inefficient the NSA really is , just as it took the Falklands War of 1982 to reveal the deficiencies at GCHQ . |
| 17 | Just as it dislikes the thought of securitising its mortgage assets — ‘ why give away margin ? ’ asks Jon Foulds , its chairman since 1990 — so it also knows that underwriting the insurance it sells would eventually be more profitable than taking commissions from Standard Life . |
| 18 | The obvious solution is to stop filling scarce space with bulky rubbish just as it left the bin : switch to recycling and incineration . |
| 19 | Emerson Fittipaldi was the next Lotus world champion and , just as it seemed the midas touch was deserting Chapman , American Mario Andretti lifted the 1978 title in the Lotus 78/79 , with team-mate Ronnie Peterson ( Swe ) second . |
| 20 | just as it reached the top of the trunk , the bird flew away . |
| 21 | Just as it collapses the hierarchy of narrative levels , so the novel un-builds the hierarchy of metatextual discourses that has come lately to encrust itself around ‘ metafictional ’ novels . |
| 22 | The ‘ appearance ’ is of the wall stopping just as it reaches the board ; but do not the input systems deliver up the information that the wall continues behind the occluder ? |
| 23 | Hungary lost much foreign creditor confidence as a consequence of the general deterioration in its economic performance just as it approached a period when it needed substantial foreign loans to service its debts , finance its convertible currency account deficit and replenish hard currency reserves . |
| 24 | In its latest quarterly review , the Bank said the economy was still bumping along the bottom — just as it reported a year ago . |
| 25 | This one act of his expelled him into the wilderness more forcibly than any other , just as it did the novelist George Gissing in England . |
| 26 | As soon as it entered the fallow he began an excited scream of view halloa , halloa ! and flapped his arms . |
| 27 | I have ridden in the hon. Gentleman 's car , which is so large that it enters Wandsworth as soon as it enters the boundary of Lambeth . |
| 28 | The car blew up as soon as it hit the wall . ’ |
| 29 | TIMING was not on the side of Thames Television yesterday as it unveiled the £57million purchase of American TV production house Reeves . |
| 30 | She circumvented fat tourists in fancy dress , civic marshals in baggy overalls , then a personal camera drone , its head swivelling back and forth as it scanned the canal for its owner at home . |