Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as balance is concerned , would a teacher in a school with Afro-Caribbean children on the register have to present a case for as well as against apartheid when covering South Africa ? |
| 2 | Thus , this lens allows the patient to view a stimulus for as long as s/he desires while also enabling the investigator to present the stimulus to one hemisphere alone . |
| 3 | Thus , this lens allows the patient to view a stimulus for as long as s/he desires while also enabling the investigator to present the stimulus to one hemisphere alone . |
| 4 | There are the careerists amongst the senior management of the school , some of whom will seem to have ‘ sold out to the system ’ : to affect a philosophy in so far as it looks in their own interests to do so , to have become executives and to have lost touch with the pupils . |
| 5 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 6 | As I have often said , I believe that Israel within her pre-1967 frontiers is a democracy , which is not true of many , if any , other states in that part of the world , but she is not a democracy in so far as the occupied territories are concerned . |
| 7 | Although the perfume is rapidly diluted by the air , the male 's antennae are so sensitive that he can detect a female from as far as 5 kilometres away . |
| 8 | Well , as you know , she did n't have a sweet tooth , not her , but I — They were sent to her twice a year for as long as I can remember . |
| 9 | There is some authority to suggest that a doctor is under a duty to prevent the suicide of such a patient in so far as there is a duty to control the patient . |
| 10 | Sadly , many an organist falls prey to the ponderous and unrhythmic playing which is invited by the instrument 's ability to sustain a note for as long as the key is depressed , with results which may be sentimental or lugubrious . |
| 11 | It must therefore be recognised that a court which has jurisdiction under article 5(3) over an action in so far as it is based on tort or delict does not have jurisdiction over that action in so far as it is not so based . |
| 12 | Lawfulness is clearly an issue in so far as one of the fundamental principles of the British , no less than most other constitutions , is that government action should take place under the authority of , and in accordance with law the narrow literal meaning of the rule of law — so that repeated unlawful actions or a perceived casualness towards the duty to comply with the law would in itself begin to raise doubts about the legitimacy of governmental action . |
| 13 | Chris avoided tedium very successfully ; he resisted having an agenda for as long as possible and always refused point-blank to have a vote on anything , so meetings never got hung up on procedure , nor were they subjected to much prior lobbying . |