Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why does the dominant class submit to leaving some of its economic interests thwarted so long as its political interests are satisfied ? |
| 2 | According to the Smallholdings and Allotments Act of 1908 , a smallholding was defined as ‘ an agricultural holding more than one acre and not more than 50 acres in extent , though the area may be extended beyond 50 acres so long as its annual value for the purpose of income tax does not exceed £50 ’ . |
| 3 | I was allowed to disrupt a ‘ social skills ’ course — one of a number of educational opportunities for men apart from the usual classes — and took the opportunity to test out some of my impressions against their own , well-informed ones in a session that , in the end , lasted twice as long as its scheduled time . |
| 4 | This is not the case in non- autistic mentally handicapped children , who do well on false belief tasks so long as their mental age , by other criteria , is above three years . |
| 5 | Most of them are interested in education , if at all , only so long as their own children are at school . |
| 6 | From the outset , no individual or couple will lose more than £3 a week from the changeover so long as their local council spends according to government assumptions . |
| 7 | He is disabled , with a slightly handicapped right arm , and statistics show that jobless disabled people remain unemployed for twice as long as their able-bodied counterparts . |
| 8 | He derided those who thought it was ‘ all right to stay in opposition so long as your socialist heart is pure ’ , and argued it was not they who suffered , but the poor in Britain and in the third world : ‘ We are not just a debating society . |
| 9 | If , for instance , I volunteered to give up some of my bone marrow to save a person suffering from leukaemia , then , so long as my own health was not in danger , there would seem to be nothing wrong with my momentarily relinquishing my autonomy . |
| 10 | He wanted another beer , but Gari had him on one-a-day for as long as his organic rice diet was holding up . |
| 11 | Belinda was starting to feel a proprietorial sort of pride in Faye 's work , especially as her own knowledge of painting increased . |
| 12 | By overload I mean that their performance of the job begins to break down as their current level of competence is pushed to the limit and beyond . |
| 13 | Instantly , Delaney drew back his right hand , stiffened it to chop down as his left hand pulled at the rubber cowl on the man 's head , forcing it back , exposing his defenceless windpipe . |
| 14 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 15 | South Africa , Mexico , Brazil , Spain , San Marino , France , Britain , Germany — Mansell won them all as his mighty Renault-Williams car blazed to triumph after triumph . |
| 16 | Mansell won them all as his mighty Renault-Williams car blazed to triumph after triumph . |
| 17 | South Africa , Mexico , Brazil , Spain , San Marino , France , Britain , Germany — Mansell won them all as his mighty Renault-Williams car blazed to triumph after triumph . |
| 18 | South Africa , Mexico , Brazil , Spain , San Marino , France , Britain , Germany — he came first in them all as his mighty Renault-Williams car blazed to triumph after triumph . |
| 19 | Kiefer Sutherland sits purring gently as his obliging press officer massages and pummels the taut muscles on his neck and shoulders . |
| 20 | I I obviously Cornwall is a special case which we obviously as our Celtic cousins it is the only non-Anglo Saxon county in England and as a result we feel a very , very strong erm er almost a kind of Uncle erm Nephew relationship to Cornwall , whereas the Cornish are certainly not Welsh but they 're certainly not Anglo Saxon English either . |
| 21 | Sure to be a scream : America 's most famous fiends , The Addams Family , are coming to the monster screen , Anjelica Huston is perfectly cast as the deliciously decadent Morticia , and Raul Julia no less so as her ghoulish soul mate Gomez . |
| 22 | I shall think of you at Christmas , the more so as my own father died one Christmas Eve , and Richard 's wife in the week before Christmas , so I know how it feels to have sadness at that time . |
| 23 | He drew comfort from her warm support , increasingly so as his closest friends — Broisset , Sainte-Beuve , Turgenev — began to die , leaving him to sigh that he was ‘ crammed with coffins , like an old cemetery . ’ |
| 24 | She thought of the baby only as her last blunder in loving , a mistake leading her nearer to this dreadful woe . |
| 25 | Edinburgh Accies scrum-half Ian Maclean scrambles the ball away as his opposite number Mike Hall makes a despairing lunge as the champions lose out to David Sole 's men 15–21 at Meggetland in the league . |
| 26 | General hints at fertility ceremonies may be present , demonstrating another continuity in theme between this and earlier poetry ; but it is important to see that , though its death and rebirth are also related , Christianity is presented by Eliot as an escape from Frazerian cycles of fertility ( in the way that the Buddhist ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ hinted at such an escape ) , not as its mere continuation . |
| 27 | At last , with greasy fingers , she managed to guide him to her saturated hole , and he penetrated her as easily as her own fingers did when she masturbated . |
| 28 | Up in the balcony Jock Lennox applauded , and some of Rafferty 's regulars laughed as Paddy gathered the little child up in his arms as easily as his heavy vestments would allow him . |
| 29 | It worked out as she hoped ; Tommaso was hanging about outside in the square with a group of other young men , smoking and strolling around to join the girls drawing the evening water at the fountain ; he came near her ; to her surprise , she saw he was n't smiling , not like the others , who were laughing and exchanging remarks , between themselves , grinning strenuously as they play-acted contempt for the young women they wooed . |
| 30 | Vaughan 's dinner cooking usually begins just as her two sons return from school in the afternoon . |