Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the aura of the military genius paving the way for lasting prosperity through final victory could almost by definition last only so long as one glorious triumph after another — and all without significant material sacrifice and loss — was attained . |
| 2 | So long as one of the applicant 's motives is to obtain a favourable outcome , leave should be granted provided the claim is not unarguable . |
| 3 | It is generally characteristic of arms races , including human ones , that although all would be better off if none of them escalated , so long as one of them escalates none can afford not to . |
| 4 | So long as two key sequences do not produce overlapping remainders this can achieve results considerably better than true randomization . |
| 5 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 6 | In so far as millions of families live under economic conditions of existence that separate their mode of life , their interests and their culture from those of other classes … they form a class . |
| 7 | And so one may say , in more directly Piagetian terms , that the child 's thinking fails , by our lights , in so far as one thought is not balanced ( ‘ in equilibrium with ’ in Piaget 's jargon ) by another . |
| 8 | Lawfulness is clearly an issue in so far as one of the fundamental principles of the British , no less than most other constitutions , is that government action should take place under the authority of , and in accordance with law the narrow literal meaning of the rule of law — so that repeated unlawful actions or a perceived casualness towards the duty to comply with the law would in itself begin to raise doubts about the legitimacy of governmental action . |
| 9 | So far as one of its most important components was concerned , early opera developed pari passu with solo song , but its evolution was controlled by other factors . |
| 10 | For Bickerton , the continuum — a dynamic system of lects — is necessary to explain the complexities of the Guyanese linguistic situation : " for Guyanese Creole clearly does not constitute a language , in so far as one end of it is indistinguishable from English " ( Bickerton 1973 : 166 ) . |
| 11 | But , so far as two-thirds of appellants are concerned , the most dissatisfying aspect of the appeal process lies in a discovery that the appeal has been unsuccessful . |
| 12 | But , again , we must beware the limits of anecdotal evidence ; several of Ryder 's examples are from the 1930s and 1940s ( and one from as long ago as 1909 ) and would breach today 's legal standards . |
| 13 | In an effort to separate as far as possible the discussion of equity from the discussion of efficiency , modern welfare economics uses the idea of Pareto-efficiency named after the economist Vilfredo Pareto whose Manuel D'Economie Politique was published as long ago as 1909 . |
| 14 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |
| 15 | Underpinning these changes there has been an acceleration in the trend towards the ‘ professionalisation ’ of journalism , a tendency noted as long ago as 1976 by Graham Cleverly in The Fleet Street Disaster : higher salaries ( at least on the nationals ) , fewer unsociable hours , less bloke-ishness and booze . |
| 16 | As long ago as 1970 , the Coldstream-Summerson Report reflected the growing concern about vocational courses and suggested they be recognized so that they became design ‘ technician ’ courses along the lines of the definition laid down in the 1969 Haslegrave Report . |
| 17 | This showed that as long ago as 1923 a research worker drew attention to the usefulness of vibration to aid speechreading . |
| 18 | As long ago as 1925 , when the American Victor company was trying to decide whether to use the Western Electric recording system , Victor executives complained that ‘ it did n't sound like a phonograph ’ . |
| 19 | The 30MW sets were extremely conservative ( the first set with the standard conditions had been commissioned as long ago as 1929 ) , but Pask , the chief engineer , resisted pressure to reduce the number of such sets in the early years and concentrate more on the 60MW design . |
| 20 | As long ago as 1957 Chomsky pointed out the weaknesses of n-gram techniques to provide an English grammar based on their inability to cope with long distance dependencies . |
| 21 | Coldingham Priory was founded as long ago as 635 AD . |
| 22 | With the 21st century on the horizon it is wrong that small firms remain locked into legislation drafted as long ago as 1844 . |
| 23 | As long ago as 1980 , he dominated the most potent fast attack in history . |
| 24 | As long ago as 1980 , he dominated the most potent fast attack in history . |
| 25 | For example , in the USA , books on the topic appeared as long ago as 1980 , when Brown and Wardwell ( 1980 ) made the following observations about the phenomenon : |
| 26 | In fact , as long ago as 1980 we had shown that , just as amino acid incorporation into proteins increases for twenty-four hours after training , so too does fucose incorporation into glycoproteins of the pre- and postsynaptic membrane . |
| 27 | Food irradiation was approved in the US for some uses as long ago as 1963 . |
| 28 | It was , after all , as long ago as 1899 that John Dewey enunciated the principle of his ‘ Copernican revolution ’ in education whereby , just as ‘ the astronomical centre shifted from the earth to the sun ’ , so ‘ In this case the child becomes the sun about which the appliances of education revolve ; he is the centre about which they are organised . ’ |
| 29 | Signs of this were evident at Christmas and , happily , at Easter , too , Not only did Channel 4 go out in peak time with Granada 's king Lear on Easter Monday but also had the bright idea of showing us on that day , in Are you having any fun ? archive material demonstrating how the British had determinedly convinced themselves they were enjoying themselves as long ago as 1896 and as lately as 1964 . |
| 30 | The final question which arises is whether , in the exercise of our discretion , we should let mandamus go bearing in mind that the events with which we are concerned occurred as long ago as 1989 and then occupied no more than perhaps three quarters of an hour . |