Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It bounces alarmingly as it gathers speed . |
| 2 | Nor is there anything remotely convincing about its performance ; there is a feeling of some urgency from 4000rpm but the power stops as suddenly as it starts so that the 6500rpm red line is a merely a figment of someone 's imagination . |
| 3 | However , as Ketamine lacks the euphoric and social properties that led o the widespread use of MDMA , the drug is likely to disappear as suddenly as it seems to have emerged . |
| 4 | It is difficult to accept such an argument , however , much as one admires the zeal of human capital theorists . |
| 5 | MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound . |
| 6 | But , says WAYNE SHELFORD , much as it hurts , defeat was the best thing that could have happened … |
| 7 | Modern writers do not over-stress a moral view but have sufficient faith in it to allow it to emerge , much as it does in everyday life . |
| 8 | This ideology relating to gender roles underpins the structure of sociology much as it does the structure of social life . |
| 9 | These considerations hold out some hope that , while the problem of maintaining lead times will remain serious , it will remain a manageable problem , much as it has in the past . |
| 10 | It belongs to a journalist absent in Eastern Europe , and is really just a large closet with a marble fireplace and a tiny bedroom and a bathroom where Candice sits across the bidet unembarrassed , much as she sits across his body . |
| 11 | The young mother may feel that she has nothing to offer — after all , much as she loves her children , their conversation may be less than stimulating . |
| 12 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 13 | Almost all the basic ideas of group theory occur naturally as one studies the cube and a fair amount of advanced group theory emerges . |
| 14 | And Joanna 's bones have strengthened naturally as she has grown older . |
| 15 | So long as nobody knows how it started . ’ |
| 16 | The pragmatist might suggest that precision is fine only so long as everyone understands the term : in fact , Pulex irritans is less obviously a flea , than ‘ flea ’ . |
| 17 | So long as everyone has an equal right to vote there must be a limit to the variations in prosperity in the community that are politically acceptable . |
| 18 | In the world of an inside ethnography as Favret-Saada identifies , ‘ one is never able to choose between subjectivism and the objective method as it was taught ’ ( ibid. 23 ) , so long as one wishes to find out answers which , in traditional ethnography , are often missing from the finite corpus of empirical observation . |
| 19 | As long as nothing happens nothing will happen — okay ? |
| 20 | Thus , this lens allows the patient to view a stimulus for as long as s/he desires while also enabling the investigator to present the stimulus to one hemisphere alone . |
| 21 | Thus , this lens allows the patient to view a stimulus for as long as s/he desires while also enabling the investigator to present the stimulus to one hemisphere alone . |
| 22 | There should be approximate equivalence of numbers so long as there has been no preferential loss of either jaws or teeth , and the expected percentage values should be in the region of 100 per cent . |
| 23 | In the UK , the present position is that microbiological processes are patentable so long as there has been a significant human intervention in the discovery of the organism and its isolation . |
| 24 | USER FRIENDLY should make today another classic payday for local hero George Duffield so long as she gets the green light to tackle the Coalite St Leger at Doncaster . |
| 25 | 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home . |
| 26 | That it does n't matter if you cheat on your wife , so long as she does n't find out . |
| 27 | If the father is trying to instil good table manners while the mother is arguing , ‘ What does it matter , so long as she eats ? ’ , or the mother is trying to set up a sensible bedtime routine while father says ‘ Another half-hour wo n't hurt ’ , mealtimes and bedtimes will soon turn into problem areas . |
| 28 | The allowance is given from the date of bereavement to the end of that tax year , and for the following year so long as she has not remarried by the start of that year . |
| 29 | Since she was capable of loving so deeply , she can still , if she chooses , remain in the business of giving and receiving love for as long as she lives , for although she may feel that she is no longer everything to anyone , she can still mean a great deal to a number of people . |
| 30 | And I want her to know that she is welcome in my house for as long as she wishes . ’ |