Example sentences of "[adv] as we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls were very beautiful , and flirtatious , but as royal guests there was no question of us , much as we entertained the thought , lumbering off with our torches in the direction of pitiful screams . |
| 2 | ‘ The results were much as we had expected in an extremely tough year , ’ said Mr Heath yesterday . |
| 3 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 4 | Searle presented his argument , which attacks the basic tenet of artificial intelligence that machines can in principle understand symbols and signalled events much as we do , in the form of an analogy in a much-quoted paper : ‘ Minds , brains and programmes ’ ( Behavioural and Brain Sciences , vol 3 , p 417 ) . |
| 5 | Bees normally use microbes to ferment food proteins , much as we deal with cheese or yoghurt . |
| 6 | Much as we love our Church , we know it falls far short of its inheritance of faith . |
| 7 | Going back to the family problem just mentioned , much as we love that child in spite of his problems , we would not let ourselves be completely taken over . |
| 8 | By contrast gardening , much as we love it , is generally a bit static . |
| 9 | Much as we found originally , it handles quite neutrally at modest speeds , understeers progressively beyond that , but always has the power to boot the tail away . |
| 10 | Privacy was not a word in our vocabulary , and postcards and diaries were mercilessly read aloud as we trekked through the jungle of North Borneo . |
| 11 | But unfortunately this did not last for long as we came to a narrow , shallow strip of the river . |
| 12 | She liked us to keep to our promise , but quite understood if the children were ill , or something else cropped up , and we got behind — so long as we let her know immediately . |
| 13 | This is fine so long as we recognize how little we genuinely know about education , and how cautious therefore must be the -claims that we are able to make . |
| 14 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 15 | ‘ We are very comfortable at Government House and Lady Franklin will not hear of our going from it so long as we remain in town . |
| 16 | But we can not explain why this is always objectionable , so long as we remain on the plane of justice as I have defined it . |
| 17 | Sophisticated dyes and colourings make it possible to hide this sign of age for as long as we wish and those in public life may , unfortunately , believe that only by covering the tell-tale grey will they maintain their credibility as energetic and creative top people . |
| 18 | ‘ So long as we get him out ’ — Cameron was still cagey . |
| 19 | So so long as we get something . |
| 20 | Father dismissed all this as typical South American ferment , and believed that all would be well as long as we sang a hymn before breakfast . |
| 21 | Just so long as we maintain the candidacy . ’ |
| 22 | So long as we boil it , it should be OK . |
| 23 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 24 | So long as we looked upon the production of value and the value of the product of capital individually , the bodily form of the commodities produced was wholly immaterial for the analysis , whether it was machines , for instance , corn , or looking glasses . |
| 25 | This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) . |
| 26 | He believed as Lionel Curtis did that Indians ' souls had to be renovated before they were fit to govern : he deeply shocked the American journalist William Shirer by announcing that ‘ Self-government … is inconceivable and unattainable without the removal of untouchability , as it also is without Hindu-Moslem unity … we shall be unfit to gain independence so long as we keep in bondage a fifth of the population of Hindustan . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Some have praised our style and said it does n't matter if we go down , so long as we keep playing football . |
| 28 | President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine denied Tory MPs were looking for a new leader , saying : ‘ We know that so long as we keep our nerve and pursue policies that are important we can come through . |
| 29 | Never , so long as we lived , he said , were we to mention to anyone , not our next-of-kin , not even those in other sections of the Station , what was the nature of our work . |
| 30 | The first items unpacked were trout-rods ; and they stayed up , ready and waiting for instant use for as long as we lived there . |