Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , not caring a damn so long as she was here . |
| 2 | This is good news for the company since all three markets are relatively recession-proof so far as the demand for their product is concerned , which in turn makes them a fairly buoyant customer base . |
| 3 | If we try to imagine how a mind of superhuman power and reach , but normal so far as the logical processes of its thought are concerned , … would use the scientific method , the process would be as follows : First , all facts would be observed and recorded , without selection or a priori guess as to their relative importance . |
| 4 | These were highly controversial so far as the implementation of the Regulation is concerned , with the British Department of National Heritage fearing an increase by 250,000 in export documents required by the antiquities trade , as all archaeological goods , even of no value , are required to have export papers . |
| 5 | Whatever it might have been , it was short-lived so far as James was concerned . |
| 6 | But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple . |
| 7 | The coexistence in Francia of Louis and Lothar as co-emperors was possible so long as Lothar remained unmarried . |
| 8 | All this will be possible so long as the materials … possess the qualities of being first hand , sensory , within the pupil 's experience , limited in quantity , and making human sense . |
| 9 | Second , in the NATO member states , the relative lack of formal restrictions has contributed to the public unease about defence policy , which is associated in people 's minds with threats of all-out nuclear war : far from assisting deterrence this situation is highly corrosive so far as effective defence and deterrence are concerned . |
| 10 | This freedom — to publish , of the press , of the media — should remain intact so long as laws are not broken . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman will have read and re-read circular 7/91 which contains the exceptions policy , allowing homes to be provided on sites not normally designated as residential so long as they are aimed at local people . |
| 12 | Footnotes in plenty have been added to Dodd , but his pattern remains a fair summary of the early preaching so far as we can reconstruct it . |
| 13 | But the effect left in the mind by this UK and USA reservation is unfortunate : it suggests , rightly or wrongly , that these nuclear powers are prepared to support the most elaborate codification limiting the use of conventional force , but at the same time want to keep their hands completely free so far as nuclear weapons use is concerned . |
| 14 | With less children , a woman can feel at peace , she does n't get old so quickly as she has n't got so much work . |
| 15 | Radical surgery for prostatic cancer has become acceptable so far as long term functional results are concerned : continence can be maintained or restored in virtually all patients , and potency is maintained in 50–70% of those who are potent preoperatively . |
| 16 | Damp is acceptable so long as the cellar is not in use and so long as it does not rise above the ground floor dpc . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | This may seem perfectly acceptable so long as we are convinced of the absolute rightness of these standards ; but the question must arise whether there is any point in seeking for single comprehensive definitions of such categories as poetry , literature , art , etc. , or whether it is not better to regard the definitions that may be devised as applicable only to certain kinds of literature or certain aspects of texts . |
| 19 | It is important that this potentially very valuable approach safeguards itself so far as possible against misinterpretation : in particular , that the content of religious belief does not really matter , that knowledge of religious tradition is unimportant , and that any opinions and beliefs are acceptable so long as they are sincerely held . |
| 20 | Whether the victim did believe that immediate violence would be used is immaterial so long as the offender intended to cause the victim to have that belief . |
| 21 | But smoking was obviously kosher as far as this old bat went . |
| 22 | But it was still kosher as far as Albert Roger Quigley was concerned . |
| 23 | Fish are unable to spawn as their breeding grounds are buried or destroyed by sand banks created by the dredgers , whose operations render water undrinkable as far as 60 km downstream . |
| 24 | Mrs Symons was , as a matter of fact , a frequent visitor to this house before the war ; indeed , she was among the most popular as far as the staff were concerned due to the kind appreciation she never shied from showing . |
| 25 | But I imagine this often happens — people are for all practical purposes sane as far as the analyst 's door and become mad as they stretch themselves out and explain their sanity . |
| 26 | Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out . |
| 27 | It was this very situation — one where the workers themselves could take control of the struggle , organise and demand on their own behalf — which was not acceptable as far as the trade union bureaucracy and leadership were concerned . |
| 28 | On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) . |
| 29 | The area between the Severn and Stroud is perhaps one of the more interesting as far as Gloucestershire 's industrial heritage is concerned . |
| 30 | There are over protective parents and there are those that will defend the indefensible as far as their children are concerned . |