Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to accept such an argument , however , much as one admires the zeal of human capital theorists . |
| 2 | This ideology relating to gender roles underpins the structure of sociology much as it does the structure of social life . |
| 3 | Almost all the basic ideas of group theory occur naturally as one studies the cube and a fair amount of advanced group theory emerges . |
| 4 | The pragmatist might suggest that precision is fine only so long as everyone understands the term : in fact , Pulex irritans is less obviously a flea , than ‘ flea ’ . |
| 5 | USER FRIENDLY should make today another classic payday for local hero George Duffield so long as she gets the green light to tackle the Coalite St Leger at Doncaster . |
| 6 | Clearly , this must be the case so long as it remains the only easily available platform for interactive multimedia . |
| 7 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
| 8 | He might feel that any heir , even one who disinherits him , is worth having so long as it keeps the name going . ’ |
| 9 | The compensation deal will cost the government an estimated A$100m and involves Canberra waiving airport landing charges for as long as it takes the airlines to recoup their losses from keeping about 21,000 non-pilot employees on their staff during the dispute . |
| 10 | Furthermore , it appears that electronic exchanges have wider bid-ask spreads , which might be a reflection of inadequate liquidity due to the lack of locals ( although there seems to be no inherent reason why individuals trading on their own account could not use an electronic system so long as it enables the scalping and other arbitrage trading practices typically carried out by locals ) . |
| 11 | But at least it pays no rent and in practice it is secure so long as it farms the land and avoids bankruptcy . |
| 12 | It need not be accurate so long as it shows the disposition of the rooms — — information which will be of great value later . |
| 13 | So long as he speaks the truth it can t be folly — that 's what you 're going to say , is n't it ? |
| 14 | Mr Robinson could have a wide brief as well , so long as he keeps the chancellor 's confidence . |
| 15 | ‘ Subject to this Part of this Act — ( a ) after the termination of a protected tenancy of a dwelling-house the person who , immediately before that termination , was the protected tenant of the dwelling-house shall , if and so long as he occupies the dwelling-house as his residence , be the statutory tenant of it ; … |
| 16 | I therefore do not regard those authorities as affecting what I would conclude was the clear language of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1977 , that a statutory tenant remains a statutory tenant so long as he occupies the dwelling house as his residence . |
| 17 | Further discussion on the domestic division of labour can be found in chapter 4 , section 4.3 , especially as it affects the inequality between men and women . |
| 18 | I thoroughly enjoyed the film on Woodcuts by Rigby Graham ( On Board productions , Peterborough PE3 8SB ) , especially as it underlines the fact that printmaking need not involve a lot of expensive and complicated equipment . |
| 19 | Edward Taylor 's urgent new opus has all the hallmarks of a hit , especially as it eschews the long , lingering shadows of some of the genre 's earlier efforts . |
| 20 | My opinion is that , as long as Willsford is among the leaders coming to the last two fences and six furlongs , his speed will be a potent weapon , especially as he carries the minimum weight . |
| 21 | He holds the trouser tightly outwards as he puts the unaffected leg into it , crosses this leg over the other again , and puts his shoe on . |
| 22 | It will still bob up and down as it hits the successive wavefronts . |
| 23 | Kevin Phillips ' snarl says it all as he leads the Neath tribe 's celebrations after winning the 1990 Schweppes Cup Final . |
| 24 | He comes across a flock of sheep belonging to the priest , one of which he takes ; he then returns to the priest , pretending not to be the traveller already refused entry , and this time is accepted in as he offers the sheep in payment . |
| 25 | … to see Mr. Wats , keeper of the Apothecaries Garden of simples at Chelsey ; where there is a collection of innumerable rarities of that sort : Particularly , besids many rare annuals the Tree bearing the Jesuits bark , which had don such cures in quartans : & what was very ingenious the subterranean heate , conveyed by a stove under the Conserveatory , which was all Vaulted with brick ; so as he leaves the doores & windowes open in the hard(e)st frosts , secluding onely the snow , & c . |
| 26 | As a safety measure , the warhead completes its arming process only as it nears the target . |
| 27 | Let the hand spring away as it touches the skin . |
| 28 | Just as it dislikes the thought of securitising its mortgage assets — ‘ why give away margin ? ’ asks Jon Foulds , its chairman since 1990 — so it also knows that underwriting the insurance it sells would eventually be more profitable than taking commissions from Standard Life . |
| 29 | Just as it collapses the hierarchy of narrative levels , so the novel un-builds the hierarchy of metatextual discourses that has come lately to encrust itself around ‘ metafictional ’ novels . |
| 30 | The ‘ appearance ’ is of the wall stopping just as it reaches the board ; but do not the input systems deliver up the information that the wall continues behind the occluder ? |