Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] as they are [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 2 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 3 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 4 | We have tried to present both sides of the hunting and shooting debate , and will be publishing the results of last month 's field sports questionnaire as soon as they are analysed . |
| 5 | As soon as they are born , she takes them into her huge jaws where they lie in pouches as she carries them back down the river . |
| 6 | Surface-dwelling rodents like guinea pigs and agoutis , in contrast to their burrowing relatives , can run almost as soon as they are born , and the calves of wildebeest , born while the herd is on migration , can stand up and trot after their mother within five minutes of dropping to the ground . |
| 7 | Eggs begin to develop as soon as they are warmed to , and maintained at , the correct temperature , so each egg laid by the mallee fowl starts developing as soon as the female deposits it in the incubator . |
| 8 | However , please do not hesitate to ask if you think that something is wrong — it is usually easier to rectify differences if they are brought to our attention as soon as they are discovered . |
| 9 | The fact that many works in this category may be produced directly on a computer before any other tangible form exists presents no serious problems because these works will exist , in terms of copyright protection , the instant they are recorded ; that is , as soon as they are stored on a computer disk or printed out on paper . |
| 10 | Systems may therefore be rejected as soon as they are implemented . |
| 11 | Moreover , some senior research directors are particularly chagrined by credits which are frozen as soon as they are granted . |
| 12 | As long as there is an abundant supply of water high temperatures tend to be associated with high rates of weathering , although this does not necessarily result in deep weathering profiles for , as we have already noted , where slope gradients are steep the products of weathering may be removed almost as soon as they are created . |
| 13 | All dates will be confirmed as soon as they are finalised by the Regional Committees . |
| 14 | As soon as they are formed , the 14 C atoms rapidly combine with oxygen to form carbon dioxide which is chemically indistinguishable from carbon dioxide containing either of the other carbon isotopes . |
| 15 | As we descend we slow down and begin to call out hazards as soon as they are seen : ‘ wires left to right 500 metres ’ , ‘ birds two o'clock ’ . |
| 16 | However , the clues to the cause can lead to better ways of treating the disease as soon as they are recognised . |
| 17 | As soon as they are elected , the people is enslaved , it is nothing ’ . |
| 18 | I will shortly be preparing more detailed notes and will make them available to you as soon as they are completed . |
| 19 | As soon as they are replaced they are broken again and the church authorities are considering wire netting as a protection . |
| 20 | All others should be removed as soon as they are spotted . |
| 21 | To many Shetlanders this is often seen to be part of a more general shortcoming on behalf of incomers — their over-riding desire to maintain the status quo in local communities as soon as they are established there . |
| 22 | Another effect of the development of the hard woody stem is that , as soon as they are established , climbers drop the tendency to put up new growth from ground level ( as ramblers do ) and so pruning has to follow a different principle ( see pages 54–72 ) . |
| 23 | In addition , the automated check-in facility will alert readers to current issues of periodicals as soon as they are processed . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ The babies are sold on and shipped round the world as soon as they are weaned from their mothers at about a year or 18 months . |
| 25 | Moreover , looking at total dear-up rates flatters the police , since it includes crimes which , by their very nature , are usually cleared up as soon as they are reported . |
| 26 | Possible extensions to active word edges are not added to the Chart as soon as they are found but are placed on the Agenda . |
| 27 | While most , for example narcissi and scillas , should be planted as soon as they are bought , tulips should not go in to the garden until November . |
| 28 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 29 | Spread over sixteen pages ( I , 56–71 ) these remarks function as part of a story , but as soon as they are put together it is a dull mind which does not reflect , ‘ Power corrupts , and absolute power corrupts absolutely ’ . |
| 30 | As soon as they are settled , they discard their caterpillar costumes . |