Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pink Industry played on , rather ineffectively as it happened . |
| 2 | Even bottom right may be all right as it is . |
| 3 | They were grand boys and so courageous … maybe too much so as it turned out . |
| 4 | They were now walking along together as it was too cold to stand about . |
| 5 | It is likely that a structure which was appropriate to an organisation at a particular stage in its development will become less so as it matures . |
| 6 | Never mind where so long as it is a public space . |
| 7 | So long as it remains in this room , he wrote , it is not finished . |
| 8 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 9 | Chicken 's feet used to give the lie to my bravura claim to Eat Anything , so long as it was recently dead . |
| 10 | Barry Quirke , chairman of the Institute of Statisticians , said : ‘ We would be very keen to support any initiative to set up an independent committee , so long as it has teeth . |
| 11 | The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change . |
| 12 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the government claims that old currency left in interest-bearing accounts should hold its value , so long as it is not spent . |
| 14 | Any gift or campaign contribution is legal so long as it is reported . |
| 15 | At first , this stress on ‘ natural religion ’ , as it was called , did not necessarily mean the abandonment of Christianity as revealed in the Scriptures ; so long as it was not inconsistent with reason , it could be accepted . |
| 16 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 17 | Even where a trustee has misappropriated trust property the fund may still preserve its identity , and , so long as it can be identified , the rights of the beneficiaries will attach to the fund into whatever form it may have been converted by him . |
| 18 | I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me . |
| 19 | The conduct element is causing ‘ actual bodily harm ’ , which has been given the wide definition of ‘ any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim ’ so long as it is not merely transient or trifling' . |
| 20 | ‘ Just so long as it does n't get in here . ’ |
| 21 | Just so long as it 's not ‘ gall ’ , ’ Lily said . |
| 22 | It is clear then that the DUP will receive the votes of the working-class loyalists so long as it retains an image of being more unionist than the Officials , unless there should be an alternative to the right of the DUP . |
| 23 | In other words , so long as it was cheap , the precautionary principle might be applied . |
| 24 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
| 25 | His position could be summed up as saying that so long as it has not been established beyond doubt that God does not exist , we should believe in God . |
| 26 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |
| 27 | There could , indeed , be no two opinions as to the right of every one of the great national subdivisions of Europe to dispose of itself , independently of its neighbours in all internal matters , so long as it did not encroach upon the liberty of others . |
| 28 | I explained that the meeting could elect anything it wished so long as it understood that the ‘ original organisers , … would make up their own minds what status , if any , to accord those elected . |
| 29 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |
| 30 | You can therefore put such a fodder crop onto tripods or a fence when damp , confident that it will dry out , so long as it is not loaded too tight . |