Example sentences of "[adv] as [indef pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to accept such an argument , however , much as one admires the zeal of human capital theorists . |
| 2 | Almost all the basic ideas of group theory occur naturally as one studies the cube and a fair amount of advanced group theory emerges . |
| 3 | So long as nobody knows how it started . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As long as nothing happens nothing will happen — okay ? |
| 8 | Apart from resleeving the cylinders around three decades ago , it has continued to function satisfactorily for as long as anyone cares to remember ! |
| 9 | So long as someone knows you 're down there and comes to dig you out , then a basement 's always best , even if the rest goes down like a pack of cards . ’ |
| 10 | Beyond this , especially as one proceeds into issues of criminology and penology , account must be taken of psychology and arguably of medical science . |
| 11 | Perhaps as one remembers this , one could pause to think that we have weapons 1000 times more powerful than the ones which caused this destruction . |
| 12 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 13 | For example , now that autumn is fading and the leaves are carpeting the ground in a tapestry of brilliant colours , just as one imagines that winter is only a clear night sky away , along come some plants which we might all associate with a spring display . |
| 14 | One does not learn to " think like a scientist " by perpetually following instructions on work-cards , just as one does not learn how to " think like an artist " by perpetually joining up dotted lines or painting in " colours according to numbers . |
| 15 | Those who believe that the growth of planned economy brings with it the possibility ( on the narrow basis of the dying out of the law of value ) of acting just as one pleases , do not understand the ABC of economic science . |
| 16 | Among the visually handicapped pupils there will , of course , be as many heterogeneous characteristics as among children in any class , some being immediately attractive and outgoing , others timid or aggressive , just as one finds among their classmates . |
| 17 | The point is that tonight — Magnapop 's UK debut — is peppered with punky teenage licks and festering grungy rumbles , yet just as one expects lyrics concerning death , drinking and corporate rock shagging , Linda hops , hiccups and beams , ‘ Wo n't you let me walk you home from school ? /Can I meet you at the pool ? ’ |
| 18 | Just as someone has short sight , penicillin allergy or diabetes never recovers from these conditions but can nonetheless do or not do various things that diminish their effects or progress , similarly , sufferers from addictive disease even though they may no longer use the substance or behaviour of addiction . |
| 19 | David Lynch has optioned D M Thomas ' story of Freud , a woman and Russia , The White Hotel , and has a more obviously Lynchian novel in development , Delacorta 's Vida , about a 16-year-old who becomes a private eye just as someone starts shooting the architects of America . |
| 20 | Therefore once you everything settles and you switch it on at night or in the day , anytime , as soon as somebody opens the door , the bell will go off . |
| 21 | As soon as something happens , woof you 're there . |
| 22 | If you 're form two they always look to you to , I mean we ca n't do our thing by ourselves but soon as something needs done , doing they look to us . |
| 23 | As soon as one says that one is going to study organizational life indeed , any aspect of human life — one runs up against the problem of what lens to use to view the scene . |
| 24 | Although this might seem in one sense to be an unequivocal expression of deference , it becomes clear that it is purely conventional as soon as one imagines an Englishman acting in this way in the presence of his Queen . |
| 25 | As soon as one does so , its lips close around it , giving it a firm hold . |
| 26 | The data are now available as soon as one begins to theorise . |
| 27 | This sort of argument is so commonly used in the social sciences that it almost passes unnoticed ; but as soon as one stops to think about it one is faced with the problem in hand . |
| 28 | " As soon as one enters " Jura " and the whole region centred on this French Department , one is aware of the respect which is due to French Gruyère cheese . |
| 29 | In reading , or being read to , one has the security of knowing that one has the ability to withdraw from the emotional situation as soon as one wishes or needs to do so . |
| 30 | As we noted in the introduction , however , problems arise as soon as one enquires about the relationship between ‘ science ’ and ‘ religion ’ in the past . |