Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | older women , losing height a lot of pain from these fractures and it 's bones that are too porous so they 're not holding you up sufficiently as you get older . |
| 2 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 3 | All the males of the Khedive 's family tended to thicken out and age suddenly as they approached middle age . |
| 4 | The child let out a howl of fright , pushing at her hand , and she blinked hard , biting at her lip , starting suddenly as she became aware of the figure suddenly standing beside her . |
| 5 | Certainly she had not expected Felipe , and her tears stopped suddenly as she absorbed this new shock . |
| 6 | Incongruous , too , because La Dame de Fer and her redoubtable overseas mouthpiece , British Sources , spoke much as they did six months ago in Madrid when the Berlin Wall stood firm and Alexander Dubcek was still an obscure forestry official . |
| 7 | Going back to the family problem just mentioned , much as we love that child in spite of his problems , we would not let ourselves be completely taken over . |
| 8 | You do n't sleep so much as you get older . |
| 9 | Yes thank well yes er thank you very much as you say several pages back . |
| 10 | Much as I hope this will never occur , all that would happen is that the patient would either open his eyes and come completely out of the hypnotic state , or that he might doze for some ten or fifteen minutes before waking as if from a nap in an armchair . |
| 11 | As the Daily Express noted : ‘ Much as I disliked this film and its cheap exploitation of suffering and illness , I must concede that it has been made with the dead-on professionalism that is characteristic of the other ‘ Carry Ons . ’ ’ |
| 12 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 13 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |
| 14 | ‘ Would madam please excuse me , ’ he said and walked over to a filing cabinet , shrugging exaggeratedly as he passed one of his colleagues . |
| 15 | The salesmen 's patter was good , polished at each performance and repeated daily as they attended different markets . |
| 16 | Just so long as we understand each other . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Good , ’ he said coldly , ‘ just so long as we understand each other . |
| 18 | To the public , subordinating national interests to Europe 's requirements is of small account , so long as we sustain competitive sport . |
| 19 | The macro-economic case for the widespread and general adoption of the industrial co-operative form is that it is just such another structure ; that the structural change lies in making labour the employer of capital rather than , as at present capital the employer of labour ; that such a change would fuse the interests of ownership and labour , interests which so long as they remain separate must also remain ultimately opposed ; and that , because relations among co-operatives and between producers and providers on the one hand , and consumers and users on the other would be determined by the operation of a free competitive market , the workers in each co-operative will be exposed to its imperative discipline . |
| 20 | Most commonly young women entered , and so long as they remained unmarried , stayed in domestic service . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , if they added that , they could also have their conquered victims become willing slaves , so long as they give regular dosages . |
| 22 | Moreover , agents of the process may be genuinely unaware of what they are doing for as long as they see good professional practice as unitary , consensual and unproblematic . |
| 23 | The rule against prior restraint is designed to allow publishers to publish even if this means betraying a confidence — a betrayal which , as Lord Denning points out , may be very much in the public interest — so long as they pay any damages that may be appropriate . |
| 24 | Of course , some people will refuse to co-operate at all , but once an interview is under way most people will be prepared to answer questions so long as they seem genuine and relevant . |
| 25 | Officers should be allowed ‘ to take part in conspiracies to import drugs so long as they withdrew prior to importation . ’ |
| 26 | Hers was not a demanding character , and so long as she felt some evidence of a man 's care ( which living in Charles ' room would give her ) she would not need more . |
| 27 | 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home . |
| 28 | So long as she stayed silent she had a secret weapon . |
| 29 | 10.7.10 The rights and licences hereby granted or agreed to be granted to a Non-academic Party pursuant to Clauses 10.7.2 b to 10.7.6 shall be exercisable on identical terms by any Related company of that Party for so long as it remains such , subject to the obtaining from such companies of suitable undertakings as to confidence and delivery up . |
| 30 | In TRACE II , a parallel architecture is employed in which each of the nodes is a relatively simple processing element which continues to send activation and inhibition to other nodes for as long as it remains active . |