Example sentences of "[adv] as [noun] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business . |
| 2 | If we take a social view of language , and accept that it is the possession of the community as well as internal to speakers ' minds , we must be prepared to accept that reversal of merger can take place in this way , so long as speakers know that meat is an alternating class . |
| 3 | So long as politicians think that they are entitled to manipulate the money supply to win elections , the conditions for a thriving industry will not be obtained . |
| 4 | Disillusion set in as awareness spread that the Government had its own agenda , much of the groundwork having been prepared in opposition by a Labour Party study group which shortly before the election had published a report titled Crime — a challenge to us all . |
| 5 | Moreover , just as Moore thought that freedom from the naturalistic fallacy made one more ready to recognize that there is a plurality of basically different sorts of good thing , so Ross thought that freedom from this wrong definition of right and duty in terms of good made one ready to recognize that there is a plurality of grounds of obligation , of which the obligation to produce good and reduce bad is just one , or rather two , for he thinks the duty to prevent bad a distinct , and usually more stringent , duty than to produce good . |
| 6 | But just as Eliot remarked that Shakespeare acquired from Plutarch more essential knowledge than most men could from the whole British Museum , so he himself seemed to have acquired from books like F. S. Oliver 's Endless Adventure an extraordinary grasp of historical movements and tendencies , for example the seventeenth century ‘ disassociation of sensibility ’ was a piece of historical perception which no pure historian would have been able to originate . |
| 7 | As soon as Rose knew that she was coming , she said that she must come too , and challenge her statements about Margaret 's sister . |
| 8 | As soon as Lévi-Strauss shows that the experience on which Sartre bases his philosophy is not a universal one , then the general inferences for all humanity that he draws from it can no longer be justified . |
| 9 | As soon as people realise that Britain is the place to be for business they shout foul . ’ |
| 10 | As a result of the central place of class in Marxist theory , as soon as Marxists argue that primitive societies are without class they are left with very little to say about these societies which is in any way distinctive . |
| 11 | As soon as Molloy saw that , he got Mowat and split his nose . |
| 12 | But I sure as hell hope that the BBC chairman Marmaduke Hussey is going to tell us , ’ he proclaims . |
| 13 | It declared as openly as Cornelius dared that he could invent a dozen different theories if he was obliged to , behind which the truth , whatever it was , could be concealed forever . |
| 14 | Furthermore , although charges are low , standards are going up as hosts recognise that it pays to provide a better service . |
| 15 | I may be being a bit paranoid , but if there is any bother , it will be the ones decked out as Leeds fans that get the trouble . |
| 16 | Ranulf and the lay brother were left behind as Thomas explained that the Picti were secretive people , hostile to those races who had pushed them from their lands and so did not take kindly to strangers . |
| 17 | In so far as Preobrazhensky claimed that there was a law of primitive socialist accumulation in the Soviet economy which operated along with the law of value , he denied that there could be one , single , regulator for the whole economy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We are looking at ways to develop this as well as ways to ensure that groups are kept informed of any activity in their area . |
| 20 | With video the setting has to be thought about , the appearance of the characters has to be right and the plain fact of seeing as well as hearing means that it is much more difficult to establish credibility . |
| 21 | Believing still that the catastrophe had been caused by other people and the actions of other people , believing it as firmly as Kate believed that it had been caused by devils and Quentin that it was part of God 's mystery , Lavinia saw a spark in the gloom . |
| 22 | She laughed again as Claudia said that once was too much , and from then on she treated Claudia as if she were going on holiday with the man of her dreams . |