Example sentences of "[adv] as [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They watched enviously as Nigel and Juliet settled themselves inside . |
| 2 | And the word ‘ property ’ must be taken literally as ownership or , as we say today , private property . |
| 3 | Liquids on the other hand flow if subjected to a stress ; they do not store the energy but dissipate it almost entirely as heat and thus possess high damping characteristics . |
| 4 | But Reagan did not appear at North 's trial , much as North and his lawyers tried ; he did not appear until Poindexter 's , in the spring of 1990 . |
| 5 | The magnificent late twelfth-century font in the great church of San Frediano at Lucca shows Pharaoh drowning in the Red Sea ; and he and his troops are dressed up much as Frederick and his knights must have appeared to the Lucchese of the 1160s . |
| 6 | as naturally as breath and dreamt them up , |
| 7 | He 'll have to know who 's coming but as I say , I 'm not bothered so long as Arthur and Angela 's there and and dad . |
| 8 | Game theory demonstrates that it is usually most adaptive to be variable or unpredictable , so long as evolution or personal experience takes care to set the odds appropriately . |
| 9 | If we have to make a comparison between the individual approaches , I think that channel two felt we had to be punished for our sins while Channel 4 took the more sanguine view that for so long as love and sex exist , television might as well look on , an electronic voyeuristic intermediary . |
| 10 | So long as philosophers and psychologists of the nineteenth century had to wrestle with an implicit mind — body problem , it was virtually impossible for evolutionists to tackle the evolution of higher mental processes of a distinctively human kind . |
| 11 | So long as France and Scotland were run by three members of the mighty Guise family , the cardinal and the duke in France and their sister Mary in Scotland , then the only way for the Lords of the Congregation to achieve their religious ends , and prevent Scotland from sinking into provincial status , was to resist the regent . |
| 12 | In most subsequent cases , it became clear that considerations of comity would not prevail against the usual procedures of the Federal Rules so long as deponents or documents were to be produced within the United States , from whatever source . |
| 13 | This shortfall is made up by investment demand and so long as investment and saving are equal , aggregate demand ( which in this simple model is consumption plus investment ) will necessarily equal the total value of production . |
| 14 | folks so long as Angela and Arthur get there and |
| 15 | In 22 the Poet is so much a part of the Friend that he can not age , himself , ‘ So long as youth and thou are of one date ’ . |
| 16 | Whatever the government , the NHS has always been seen as underfunded and that is unlikely to change so long as children and old people wait months for operations . |
| 17 | Lord Sankey 's attitude indicates that a court of law in the United Kingdom would need weighty evidence before becoming willing to abandon the principle of legality according to the pre-existing constitutional norms , and so it should , so long as uncertainty as to the ‘ realities ’ prevails . |
| 18 | And we cause the hunger and poverty , we , as the West , not necessarily as individuals because we insist on a lifestyle that acquires things and in doing that , er we 've subverted God . |
| 19 | Concern has been expressed about the delays in determining the merits test , especially as delay and refusal of legal aid appear to be related . |
| 20 | Obviously Ted and I were n't always around to scrutinize the intricate excitements of this new love , especially as Dad and Eva spent many evenings over the river in London proper , going to the theatre to see controversial plays , to German films or to lectures by Marxists , and to high-class parties . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , all right , ’ Sam grumbled , ‘ but it 's a pity , especially as Anna and I leave tomorrow . |
| 22 | When Frances arrived at her new home , to be followed weeks later by her children and their nanny , she had every hope that the children would be relatively unaffected by her marital breakdown , especially as Sarah and Jane were away at boarding-school . |
| 23 | Contributions from Squadron members are related in the order that they joined the unit and make for fascinating reading , especially as raids and operations inter-weave with different opinions coming to the fore — Alan has added occasional notes only by way of factual back-up , ensuring the originality of the contributor 's writing . |
| 24 | Aluminium provides a very strong structure but may not perform as well thermally as PVCU while wood requires more maintenance than either . |
| 25 | They were not legally entitled to do so as teenagers and various factors may trigger their desire to find their birth parents at this stage . |
| 26 | cabinet , so as Marian that says |
| 27 | It 's 8 o'clock as Kenneth and I strut into Dr McKenzie 's consulting room for the results of the tests . |
| 28 | ‘ For the window-catch , ’ he explained patiently as Loretta and Bridget stared at him . |
| 29 | In the south-east corner of the massif , however , this fall is interrupted by other heights of sufficient stature and character to be classed not merely as foothills but as separate entities deserving individual attention : of these , Norber and Moughton , enclosing between them the lonely valley of Crummackdale , display features of unusual interest . |
| 30 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |