Example sentences of "[adv] as be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , yesterday underlined that UK rates would remain ‘ as high as necessary for as long as is necessary to keep downward pressure on inflation ’ . |
| 2 | So far about 400 hectares of land have been reclaimed and the programme is to continue for as long as is necessary . |
| 3 | In nature these fish only come together to reproduce , and stay together for as long as is necessary to raise young . |
| 4 | A commitment to maintain the ‘ Pact for Democracy ’ for as long as is necessary . |
| 5 | The President may be watching to see how long Mr Buchanan remains a contender , delaying as long as is necessary making an appointment that could fuel his opponent 's campaign . |
| 6 | Clockwatching has no place and everyone is expected to work as long as is necessary to do the job — and to do so without complaint . |
| 7 | Secure placements , once made , should only be for so long as is necessary and unavoidable . |
| 8 | The idea of ‘ care in the community ’ has developed over the past 20 years to encourage the development of services to help older people in need of care to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish , and for as long as is practical . |
| 9 | There is a tendency not to offer housing to dementia sufferers ( especially where known behaviour problems exist ) , but on the other hand to try to help tenants who develop dementia as long as is reasonable . |
| 10 | Net systems can extend from as little as 50 yards ( 45.7 metres ) to as long as is manageable . |
| 11 | Continue for as long as is comfortable . |
| 12 | Look at the person — maintain contact with the eyes for as long as is comfortable , look away to the mouth when it becomes uncomfortable , then return to the eyes . |
| 13 | The boys stood this for as long as was decent , and then , after a particularly heavy blow to the head , the brothers grabbed the Bosnian refugee by both feet and up-ended him over the sand . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) The justices were under a duty to make any secure accommodation order only for so long as was necessary . |
| 15 | ‘ the justices were under a duty to make any secure accommodation order only for as long as was necessary ’ — and again the guidance and regulations are referred to — ‘ In the light of the evidence that a full planning meeting was due to be held on 30 December 1991 the magistrates should either have adjourned the application until after that meeting or should have made an order to last until shortly after that meeting . |
| 16 | Sir Hector , who was in Shetland yesterday for the fourth time this year , said monitoring of water and fish samples around the islands would continue for as long as was necessary . |
| 17 | 1.24 Pursuant to the Queen 's Bench Masters ' Practice Direction of 29 November 1989 , in order to save time at trial , copies of disclosed medical or other experts ' reports upon which any party intends to rely ( whether agreed or not ) must be lodged by that party as soon after setting down as is practicable . |
| 18 | Friday 18th June will go down as being Black Friday in the minds of certain men at the Institute . |
| 19 | So I 'm always reaching down to people , and I do n't mean down as being inferior , reaching out to people is a better phrase , and I , I never give up about people wanting to partake . |
| 20 | then they 'll mark you down as being non-competent |
| 21 | By leaving the analysis at the abstract level , Freud has enabled some psychotherapists to oppose all crowd phenomena in religious and political action , to see it all as being pathological . |
| 22 | But these workers had a " guts feeling " that if things were designed to last much longer and an infrastructure was set up to repair them , at least as much work would be created in doing so as was available in the capital-intensive mass production lines producing the throw-away goods . |
| 23 | In animals , X would have to be genetically specified , although it might be specified merely as being different , in any way , from other members of the species . |
| 24 | Indeed , the first ( voluntary ) codes of recommendation for livestock drawn up by the Ministry of Agriculture were described as setting standards below which profitability would be jeopardised , not as being desirable for the animals ' welfare . |
| 25 | Factors such as the availability and characteristics of labour are seen as having been important at certain periods ‘ until the early 1970s ’ ( ibid. ) , but not as being fundamental . |
| 26 | What is significant about this treatment of the topic is the way in which the overall theory is constrained — and constraints , ( in effect , metrical filters ) , are susceptible of mentalistic investigation just as are syntactic or phonological rules . |
| 27 | That which is good or bad morally is so with a necessity which is apparent to reason just as are fundamental truths of mathematics . |
| 28 | If site 194 is released for extending the area I would be grateful to be advised as soon as is practical so that I can discuss details with the Forestry Commission . |
| 29 | Brandon Gough , chairman of Coopers , said that heads of agreement have been signed and that the merger would be put into effect ‘ as soon as is practicable ’ . |
| 30 | The detainee making a request ‘ must be permitted to consult a solicitor as soon as is practicable except to the extent that delay is permitted by this section ’ . |