Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It bounces alarmingly as it gathers speed . |
| 2 | Much as he loved Judd , he was unable to understand the boy 's passion for mechanical objects like aeroplanes in preference to living creatures like horses ; nor see how Judd could possibly justify equating the two as he did . |
| 3 | Much as he admired schoolgirls , flouting the law was too much of a risk for someone with a public image . |
| 4 | ‘ Much as I admired Bob Payton and his unequivocal standards , I had also felt I was in too important a position . |
| 5 | This put heart into me , because in all the years that followed I came increasingly to believe that the genuine radicals were neither the ‘ philosophical radicals ’ ( much as I admired J. S. Mill , and have even found good in Bentham ) nor the Fabian radicals , the socialists or social democrats , but the kind of conservative radicals of whom Cobbett was perhaps the earliest example . |
| 6 | Much as she loved Nora , she was sufficiently realistic about her cousin to know that whatever was beginning to develop in her niece would be much more likely to come to something if Constance remained with her in Surrey than if she returned to the north . |
| 7 | Much as she loved Jamie and hated Damian , she could n't deny it . |
| 8 | She was about his age , and in the chronic torpid state that overcame him daily as he faced work , he could not make his embarrassment at her gesture connect with his limbs . |
| 9 | We shall not only survive but continue to grow so long as we give value for money , retain our record of innovation and flexibility , keep the confidence and goodwill of our clients and ensure that we have the best possible range of materials , methods and people in the industry . |
| 10 | So long as we have heat , water , and reciprocal motion , then we shall also have ‘ horse power ’ . ’ |
| 11 | So long as we have language , he argued , we simply can not conceive it . |
| 12 | Or , to put it the other way round , affines only remain friends so long as they remain affines ; they are bonded together by political alliance rather than by common substance , and , if the parties concerned want to maintain that alliance , they must repeatedly reaffirm that bonding by the appropriate exchange of imperishable valuables of a visible and identifiable kind . |
| 13 | AT THE beginning of the 20th century Texan lobbyists could get more or less what they wanted so long as they kept politicians supplied with the three Bs : beefsteak , bourbon and blondes . |
| 14 | Also , where Newco is acquiring a business , it seems it is no longer strictly necessary to ensure that the shares the managers subscribe in Newco confer control after the institutions have invested , so long as they confer control before then , assuming in this scenario that the managers invest well before the institutions and before the institutions are committed to investing . |
| 15 | So long as they have neighbours within 12″ the Snotlings are not affected by the psychology rules and they do not need to take break tests when they are beaten in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 16 | But so long as there remain others where realism seems compelling , in those the sceptic 's challenge bites . |
| 17 | The same section further provides that ‘ … any enactment passed or to be passed … shall be construed and have effect subject to the foregoing … ’ and since the doctrine of supremacy of Community law is arguably a part of Community law this provision appears to have the effect , so long as it remains law , of establishing the primacy of Community law , ( s.2 ( 4 ) ) . |
| 18 | Modigliani and Miller argue that this situation can not persist for long as it offers arbitrage profits to the individual investor . |
| 19 | So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple . |
| 20 | Barry Quirke , chairman of the Institute of Statisticians , said : ‘ We would be very keen to support any initiative to set up an independent committee , so long as it has teeth . |
| 21 | But America will be right to say no , as long as it has worries about its own inflation . |
| 22 | You can go on feeling lively and young and be as sexually attractive as you want , so long as you take care of your health . ’ |
| 23 | So long as you keep things above board your schemes will be tolerated , perhaps even appreciated , but do n't over-stretch your imagination as the results could border on the bizarre . |
| 24 | Jesus challenged the Jews of his day with a searching question : ‘ How can you have faith so long as you receive honour from one another , and care nothing for the honour that comes from him who alone is God ? ’ |
| 25 | These fish in the 1lb to 2lb class can be a hundred or more strong in a shoal , and if you begin catching this size of barbel it is likely they will remain in the swim , feeding off and on , for as long as you have bait to keep them interested . |
| 26 | In many firms there will be no room for dispute as to who should fill the position and for how long , ie the most experienced member of the partnership for as long as he remains hale and hearty . |
| 27 | Earlier , avoiding Matey 's compressed lips , he had picked up the whisky bottle and reached for a glass — anything , so long as he achieved oblivion , surcease from pain — and then he had heard her voice again , in the corridor at the church hall , mockingly telling him to retreat to it . |
| 28 | So long as he taxes spirits in a highly discriminatory fashion at home , he can expect other Member States to follow suit . |
| 29 | Looking at stress generally , and not necessarily as it affects nurses , the following might be considered as potential trouble spots : |
| 30 | Conversations with one 's children are extremely predictable , especially as they hit adolescence ; there can not be a parent out there who does n't know this one : |