Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 2 | The environmental conditions with which the system is in equilibrium may shift , and only so long as the equilibrium can be set at new and workable positions can the species survive . |
| 3 | Those standing by the IBM shares for the sake of the thumping 6% plus yield now recognise that the dividend is safe only so long as the present management team is in place — and few would gamble much now on John Akers and his cronies seeing the year out . |
| 4 | Conti 's opinion was that reconciliation could be achieved , but only so long as the Scriptures were understood to speak the language of common people . |
| 5 | The system can function only so long as the financial stability of LCH 's position is preserved so that the risks normally inherent in futures and options trading are effectively balanced . |
| 6 | First , gathering , hunting , and fishing do not represent clearly different technological stages but always occur together so long as the environment permits the combination . |
| 7 | So long therefore as the central country of the Bretton Woods system pursued responsible policies , fiscal deficits in a peripheral country such as the United Kingdom generated balance of payments problems for that country , and any government seriously committed to maintaining a fixed exchange rate on the US dollar found its freedom to run such deficits severely curtailed by the commitment . |
| 8 | In certain species , the long , fine roots trail below as far as the muddy or sandy bottom and anchor the plant , still giving it ample freedom for floating . |
| 9 | Windows was the environment of choice — the DOS version works identically as far as the mechanics are concerned , except that pretty Windows graphics are replaced by character based displays . |
| 10 | Then he strode away — but only as far as the corner of the hearing room , temporarily out of range of the television cameras . |
| 11 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 12 | The French government acceded to her request that she be buried at Malmaison , but her son was permitted to accompany the funeral only as far as the frontier between France and Switzerland . |
| 13 | ‘ No , sir , only as far as the actual competition , which they organize . |
| 14 | Whilst most modern witch covens can be traced back only as far as the revival stimulated by Gerald Gardner and the repeal of the Witchcraft Acts in the 1950s , there still exist traditional covens which date back much further . |
| 15 | The direct influence of the LLP extended only as far as the metropolitan boundary at Bethnal Green ; the West Ham Labour Party was autonomous . |
| 16 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 17 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 18 | Perhaps the notice could be altered to indicate that the path leads only as far as the river . |
| 19 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 20 | Once or twice they walked together as far as the river . |
| 21 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 22 | We can move , of course , change direction , rattle about , but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current … |
| 23 | Magnificent Karnak , with its corridors of stone rams , sky-embracing pillars and gigantic inscrutable statues , stretching apparently as far as the eye can see , is breathtaking . |
| 24 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 25 | The circular arrangement above the Hare was assigned , originally , to the late-third century ( Neal 1981 , no. 25 ) , but this dating has been amended , and the pavement now assigned to the fourth century ( perhaps as late as the second quarter of the fourth century : Cirencester Excavations III , forthcoming ) . |
| 26 | Damon could copy anyone 's handwriting and had been told by their class teacher , in a burst of anger , that he would go far , perhaps as far as the Scrubs for forgery . |
| 27 | Many professionals wish they had been given more detailed and honest feedback far sooner , perhaps as early as the SSI/RHA 's initial monitoring . |
| 28 | The inscriptions were copied from texts on papyri and certainly date back to the New Kingdom but are probably based on much earlier writings , perhaps as early as the Third Dynasty . |
| 29 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 30 | The SNC would occupy Cambodia 's UN seat , perhaps as early as the next UN General Assembly in September . |