Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It clearly precludes the collection of data for its own sake , or just in case it might turn out to be useful ; and it requires that information shall be kept for only as long as it remains relevant . |
| 2 | There are probably about 50 stars within radio range if we assume that they have had radio technology for only as long as we have . |
| 3 | Other documents must be filed and served as soon as practicable , subject to any direction of the appellate court . |
| 4 | At this Pennethorne was instructed to take steps to purchase the remainder of the property authorized under the 1855 Act as soon as possible . |
| 5 | Serve as soon as possible to retain the flavour . |
| 6 | She followed him everywhere , allowing him to bully and browbeat her for all he was worth just as long as he did n't banish her . |
| 7 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 8 | I have had a word with Swan and he has agreed to become your personal private aeroplane for just as long as you remain small enough to fly on his back . ’ |
| 9 | I can sleep anywhere for just as long as I 've got . |
| 10 | In the same year , writing of how as good writers ‘ we have not borrowed , we have been quickened , and we become bearers of a tradition ’ , Eliot complains ( before quoting a revoicing of Seneca by Chapman which would be used in ‘ Gerontion ’ ) that in contemporary poetry , ‘ No dead voices speak through the living voice ; no reincarnation , no re-creation . ’ |
| 11 | A modernist moment , too : this is the sort of exchange , in which the everyday tampers with the sublime , that we like to think of proprietorially as typical of our own wry and unfoolable age . |
| 12 | The Institute claims that it acted as quickly as possible in the circumstances because the DTI did not publish its reports until 1990 . |
| 13 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 14 | Labour MP Bob Cryer said : ‘ The authorities had better clarify the position as rapidly as possible . |
| 15 | Unemployed workers were encouraged to look on the NUWM as a " trade union of the unemployed " acting as far as possible as their representative . |
| 16 | His father , who once appeared in the Evening Standard as Spurs ' Number One fan , did not consider such suspicious activities as sport , so one day when he was 17 Kasmin decided to get as far away from home as possible , and fled to New Zealand . |
| 17 | Within this great encircling babel of tongues and cultures , aspirations and rivalries , lie the Pacific islands , regarded from afar as idyllic and palm-fringed and all more or less the same . |
| 18 | Just get as far away from here as possible ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Dogs are welcome in here as long as they do n't wee on the carpet , ’ she said . |
| 20 | This uninterrupted period of rule was ended abruptly on Feb. 3 , 1989 , by a coup led by Gen. Andrés Rodríguez , who was sworn in immediately as interim President [ see p. 36458 ] . |
| 21 | Many parts of it are extremely rural with farming the predominant industry ; watercourses here are maintained to a high standard of cleanliness and relied upon heavily as potable supply for the many industrial cities elsewhere in the authority 's jurisdiction . |
| 22 | The Foxton Lift seems almost to have come and gone in secret ; the remains at Foxton were until recently as mysterious to most people as the Iron Age hill fort at Burrough on the Hill on another side of Leicestershire . |
| 23 | ‘ For today as undisputed , undefeated , universally-accepted champion of the world , I reject , renounce , repudiate and totally dismiss the unfair , immoral , unethical and downright silly actions of the WBC and their president Jose Sulaiman . |
| 24 | He feels he has a lot to say and wants to do a serious in depth interview dealing with The Smiths current position as well as certain endeavours he 's been involved in . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ So why do n't you do the ordering for tomorrow as usual ? |
| 26 | But it is precisely those antibodies which and dismiss to cavalierly as unimportant for prevention of progression of HIV disease ! |
| 27 | My concern over this for almost as long as I can remember . |
| 28 | At the Bull & Gate , next door to the Town & Country Club in London 's Kentish Town , the management has been promoting pub rock in a back room with adjoining outer bar for almost as long as the form has existed . |
| 29 | For three months she went by Underground to the Wimbledon home of Elizabeth Russell where for almost as long as anyone can remember she has schooled the daughters of knights , dukes and earls in the delights of sauces , sponges and souffles . |
| 30 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |