Example sentences of "as [adv] as they are [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice case management for people with long term mental illness has developed into a range of techniques that can be described along 12 different axes ( box 2 ) , which aim to ensure that patients with long term psychiatric disorders receive consistent and continuing services for as long as they are required and that services do not focus inappropriately on patients with less severe conditions . |
| 2 | Printed with a new thermal chromatic invisible ink , the animals and trees actually disappear from the T-shirt when you get hot — just as quickly as they are disappearing from the wild , in fact ! |
| 3 | Yesterday morning the Tories were rejoicing at the prospect of Bryan Gould splitting the Labour Party as deeply as they are split . |
| 4 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 5 | Although police remove the illegally-parked cars almost as fast as they are abandoned , the local body responsible for administering parking is insisting that someone pay the hefty excess charges incurred by the prolonged presence of other cars in legal spaces . |
| 6 | Obviously the factory system with its complicated industrial mechanism can not function profitably without a large and growing demand ready and willing to absorb its products as fast as they are produced . |