Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [noun prp] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission could agree to forget about the argument over the date at which the directive applied , so long as Britain removes all the ‘ excessive discretion . ’ |
| 2 | It will without much doubt remain true , however , that so long as Britain attaches paramount importance to tying her currency in with the Deutschmark and to the other European currencies , her governments will be inhibited from acting in the direct interest of British citizens . |
| 3 | So long as China has the PLA as its powerful back-up , attempts by ( Western ) hostile forces are doomed to failure , and there is absolutely no way for the socialist system to be abolished on the earth . ’ |
| 4 | Although the laws will doubtless be tightened , no cure for the current state of financial laxity will be found so long as Yugoslavia has a ‘ soft budget ’ approach to monetary policy , and persists in its attempts to combine self-management with the doctrine of ‘ social ownership ’ . |
| 5 | I do guarantee it — just so long as Silvia passes her exams . ’ |
| 6 | The trick does not work , but at least it leads to the hiding of Colas in Lise 's bedroom and the awful discovery of the two of them together just as Alain has received the key and goes to claim his bride . |
| 7 | The situation is saved : HAMLET , escorted , is marched in just as CLAUDIUS leaves . |
| 8 | In so far as NAB has been regarded as an interim arrangement , despite the dropping of the word ‘ Interim ’ from the original title of the main body , questions about its future are bound to arise . |
| 9 | I must have heard the Brahms C major Sonata countless times , yet I can not recall having ever encountered a reading which balances the young composer 's variegated , emotionally charged adolescent outpourings as unerringly as Richter does here . |
| 10 | There 's also a more formal and more advanced reporting procedure , based on the DataEase Query Language ( DQL ) , as near as DataEase gets to programming . |
| 11 | Louis then swore in the lingua romana , so that Charles 's men would understand him : For the love of God and for the Christian people and for our common salvation , from this day henceforth , as far as God grants that I know and can , I shall so help this my brother Charles with my aid and in all things , as every man ought in right to help his brother , on condition that he does the like for me . |
| 12 | Consequently the knights of Surrey obtained , for a fine of 200 marks , the disafforestment of all their county from the river Wey eastward to the Kent boundary , and from the Guildford road southward ‘ as far as Surrey extends ’ ; thus only the north-western corner of the county remained within the royal forest of Windsor . |
| 13 | The Palestinians refuse to draw the line between the interim agreement on self-government and the final determination of borders as sharply as Israel does . |
| 14 | It might seem that the primeval Fall underlies this poem 's events as surely as Venice underlies its epigraph , standing as the reality which underlies various writers ' interpretations . |
| 15 | Serafin , too , is thinking about Annexe B. He knows , just as well as Summerchild does , that these are big men who once rowed for their colleges . |
| 16 | In fact , the Princess of Wales — a woman Selina is often compared with — must wish she was able to keep the lid on her private life as tightly as Selina has . |
| 17 | The rider was tacked on as hurriedly as Matilda 's had been . |
| 18 | The problem is that the invitation must have come rather late as Carolyn recalls : ‘ I walked in about six o'clock and Diana went : ‘ Quick , quick I 've got to meet Charles in twenty minutes . ’ |
| 19 | No offside given there surprisingly as Black turns it in and Whitlow 's there to win it again . |
| 20 | He does n't leave that sheep that he 's rescued in the wilderness , but he brings that one safely home as Jesus says , on his shoulder rejoicing , and he leads it by , as David says , the still waters , and by those green and verdant and lush pastures . |
| 21 | I think this is clearly Miller 's main use for the character of Alfieri and he tries to make this more realistic by making Alfieri a lawyer though I do not think that this is done very well as Alfieri does not say anything which would justify him being a lawyer as all Eddie asks him are things he would have asked anyone though perhaps he asked him because he was a ‘ lawyer ’ and he respected this and knew he would get confidentiality . |