Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The game against Marseille will now be a battle but so long as we have someone like Andy Goram behind us , we feel solid . |
| 2 | ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them . |
| 3 | They want rearing and all that , they want to rear you see but so long as you get them settled and stand on them do anything , keep them down . |
| 4 | Many knitters worry about damaging their machines if they break the rules , but so long as you allow the machine to guide you , you should n't damage it . |
| 5 | Hodge did not deem Rhee essential to a future government but so long as he remained one of the few nationally known leaders , his cooperation was required . |
| 6 | Well , it 's all Greek to me , but so long as it keeps him happy . ’ |
| 7 | But so far as I know they have never been reprinted , and I have let slip from my memory now the name of the author ( a salutary warning against undue pride for those of us writing today ) . |
| 8 | Lithium batteries are even better , but so far as I know are only available in PP3 size . |
| 9 | I am open to contradiction , but so far as I understand , the Association as such , played no direct part either in the recent increases in apprentices ' salaries , which were reviewed automatically , nor in the revival of their indenture , which is the result of a tortuous and painfully slow consideration by the Law Society . |
| 10 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 11 | As the years pass the disease takes a heavier and heavier toll not only physically but also emotionally as it progresses through the group . |
| 12 | Of course , the holders of irredeemable stock were not obliged to exchange it for South Sea stock , but as fast as they did so the company would issue an equal amount of its stock . |
| 13 | The charity 's national organizer , Vivienne Parry , set about finding some mothers-to-be to meet the Princess ; but as fast as she found them , they went into labour . |
| 14 | Adele had looked up at him , not quickly but as quickly as she 'd been able . |
| 15 | Of course it 's only a rummage-search , but as far as we 've gone , there 's nothing in that boat at all that has n't a right to be there . ’ |
| 16 | He was known to be a political activist , but as far as we know had no record of violence . |
| 17 | ‘ But as far as we know , she is still mechanically fine and she has still got some running life which is why she will be touring the preserved railways . ’ |
| 18 | always say this because , you know , developments happen all the time , but as far as we know , genes are handed on as complete discrete enti entities , in units is what discovered . |
| 19 | ‘ The test has shown positive , but as far as we know at the moment it could have come from many different sources . ’ |
| 20 | Our efforts to meet the company have so far been unsuccessful , but as far as we understand from the AEU ( which has a single union agreement with Montupet ) , there are no special mechanisms to target recruitment and training on the unemployed and it is worth bearing in mind that the code of practice of the new Fair Employment Act puts the idea of the merit principle above that of equality of outcome or the achievement of social justice . |
| 21 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 22 | I only saw it open a few times but as far as I remember there were a couple of old ledgers and a stack of pocket files . ’ |
| 23 | But as far as I knew , he had no other friends in Salamanca , though he had only to lift his little finger and both men and women would have come running at his bidding . |
| 24 | I was weak , highly emotional , but as far as I knew , well . |
| 25 | I mean I 'm no historian , you 'd have to check up on this with my hubby , but as far as I know the Reformation started up North in Europe a guid lang mile away from Rome and the Pope and that , up in the Region of what we now know as Holland , and Germany and Alsace Lorraine . |
| 26 | He went back to Nuremberg in 1946 to testify , but as far as I know that 's the only time he ever left the country . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm sure he wo n't mind me mentioning the fact , but as far as I know Graham Marsden is still waiting for that elusive ’ two ’ , not that he has n't had his share of big roach , it 's just that the needle of his scales apparently aggravatingly always sticks at around 1lb 15oz ! |
| 28 | Similar challenges have been organised previously in London , Canterbury etc but as far as I know this one is a ‘ first ’ for Edinburgh . |
| 29 | And it covers everything but as far as I know , and I 'm willing to be corrected |
| 30 | Occasionally she would receive a postcard , coloured views usually of London with nondescript , meaningless messages , but as far as he knew she never replied . |