Example sentences of "as [adv] as they [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With their bizarre appearance and seemingly mysterious but treacherous way of life , the dodders have certainly latched on to human imagination as successfully as they do to the innumerable species of plants they parasitise , spawning fables , myths and fascinating names such as love vine , immortal vine , vine in the sky , beggar vine , strangleweed , devil 's gut , scald and so on . |
| 2 | That same prize will elude the British for as long as they yearn for it publicly . |
| 3 | They seem unskilled in the simple acts that console women when they are distressed — like being held gently for as long as they need to be held , making murmuring noises rather than using words ( or even worse , forming sentences ) , wiping tears away and blowing noses … in other words giving the same comfort which you would give to a child . |
| 4 | Do they really go on for as long as they seem to , or are they , as some people have suggested , fleeting sensations before waking up ? |
| 5 | The issues Rushdie involuntarily personifies are great indeed , and for as long as they continue to be treated as an inconvenience , democracy itself is diminished . |
| 6 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |
| 7 | Snooker frames with Julian last about twice as long as they do with anybody else . |
| 8 | I have never experienced an aggressive or bullying rasbora of any species , and they mix well in the peaceful community aquarium , swimming alongside companions from the other side of the world as easily as they integrate with their natural South East Asian cohabitants . |
| 9 | This is probably the most difficult material to handle because the many characters and nationalities involved in the various available libretti must express themselves as distinctively as they do in real life and the choreographer must try and ensure his design has some semblance of reality if it is to communicate meaning . |
| 10 | The development of such trading centres is only relevant here in as far as they point to the direction in which economy was evolving in the sixth and seventh centuries . |
| 11 | The Government have always abided by , and agreed with , the additionality rules as far as they apply to Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | The domestic dog is thought to have evolved from the wolf , yet wolves and other wild dogs bark about as often as they appear at Crufts . |
| 13 | No matter — shooting up on the purest essence of Led Zep , The Stones , and the obligatory clutch of the early '70s Yank noisemaster , Thee Hypnotics leap straight outta the museum and into the '90s , resurrecting the spirit as well as they sound of their sonic ancestors . |
| 14 | No matter — shooting up on the purest essence of Led Zep , The Stones , and the obligatory clutch of the early '70s Yank noisemaster , Thee Hypnotics leap straight outta the museum and into the '90s , resurrecting the spirit as well as they sound of their sonic ancestors . |
| 15 | Only because of Labour proposals and actions have schools managed to deal as well as they have with L M S. Congratulations , I say , go to the Labour Group . |
| 16 | Though economists quarrel about the causes of the 1930s depression as inconclusively as they do about everything else , certain basic features are not in doubt . |