Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in Devon has 70 members and is carried on much as when it was founded in 1799 . |
| 2 | So long as there is a need for collective decision-making and for policies which give direction to a whole community or society , and so long as or whenever unanimity can not be achieved , it is hard to see what alternative there can be to the minority being compelled to go along with the decision of the majority . |
| 3 | Have you ever seen things so clearly as when you were first in love ? |
| 4 | Taking your point that chemistry at university is a privileged subject in so far as that the equipment available is more sophisticated , more expense , more accurate , possibly , surely universities ought to be doing something to help kids in schools ? |
| 5 | I have expressed phenomenalism so far as if all phenomenalists agree that observation statements report the nature of the reporter 's own sensory states . |
| 6 | Now if this is erm , a perhaps a non representative hundred in so far as if , if you can compare it with er the , the average in the West of Scotland , I know your speaking as , as an expert because you work , well , well tell me exactly what you do , I know your with the transport |
| 7 | Under pressure from government economic policies and spending cuts , the predisposition to rethink conventional provision is slight , except in so far as as competition for student numbers , effective teaching hours and fee-income intensifies the concentration on popular recreational and leisure pursuits , rather than innovative and developmental work in areas which can not be relied upon to be lucrative . |
| 8 | This adage applies in many specialities , but never so appropriately as where French furniture is concerned . |
| 9 | In fact , Lance Percival came to a conclusion as long ago as when the One Over The Eight show was still running that Ken would n't have minded if his comedy days had been over , too . |
| 10 | So just go down there as and when they 're needed ? |
| 11 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 12 | With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry . |
| 13 | The Stealer loped slowly away as though injured , dodging from one steel column to the next . |
| 14 | Not really as though you 'd know it ! |
| 15 | It is not even as though the Government have adhered to their own reasons for refusing to act on this in the past . |
| 16 | His wrinkled face creased more deeply as though he were smiling . |
| 17 | and she says she 's still as bad off now as when she went in to get the house , you know the five thousand odd , she 's would , she 's , she 's , I had a bit last , I , I wished you had it all , I said do n't lie , I said do n't tell me you have n't had it I says cos you have , she says yeah , I says what you done with it ? |
| 18 | It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat . |
| 19 | He took no part in the digging but squatted on the edge of the ditch , fidgeting backwards and forwards , sometimes nibbling and then starting up suddenly as though he could hear some sound in the wood . |
| 20 | Mr Cedric Multhrop subsided into one of the comfortable armchairs in his lounge , then leapt up guiltily as though a mere hotel owner had no place to be sitting down in his guests ' domain . |
| 21 | He held it up triumphantly as though it were a trophy then knelt beside the nearest keg and traced his finger around the seal of the small bung . |
| 22 | Turning up here as and when it suited him . |
| 23 | Moreover , those techs were kneeling and bowing their heads — while the priest began to rant , his eyeballs rolling up whitely as though to stare inside his own skull . |
| 24 | Individualised programmes , alternative activities and simplified worksheets , when they are directed at certain children can cut them off from their peers as effectively as if they had been withdrawn . |
| 25 | If he played golf as badly as that he 'd pack it in . |
| 26 | He stood back to look down the line of her figure under the flimsy nightgown , his eyes caressing her as blatantly as if she had been naked . |
| 27 | If you eat more on some days and less on others , you will shed weight just as successfully as if you stuck to the same number of calories each day . |
| 28 | Lee had felt the emotional voltage in the room heighten to a point when she thought that Philippa would slam the door behind her , hard , but the door closed as gently as if there were a baby asleep in the house . |
| 29 | She instructed him to wash her , and was surprised when he soaped her as gently as if she was a baby . |
| 30 | Where the court is satisfied , on the application of the official receiver , that the bankrupt has failed to comply with any of his obligations under the Act , it can order that time shall cease to run for as long as or subject to such conditions as it thinks fit ( s 279(3) ) . |