Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [vb base] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 2 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 3 | The class can take on the role of any group of people unified by a common concern or problem , so long as we ensure that every child has an active role to play . |
| 4 | So long as we think that good must be identical with some one natural property we can not but suppose that all good things have some such property in common . |
| 5 | In analysing this argument , Hirschi ( 1973 , p. 171 ) concludes that ‘ Sociology will suffer … so long as we believe that our assumptions guarantee truth , while their assumptions guarantee error , whatever the facts may be ’ . |
| 6 | To use an analogy from short sight : people who wear glasses are relieved of the effects of their short sight for as long as they continue to wear them and for as long as they remember that there are still some things ( such as seeing clearly underwater ) that they can not do even if they are wearing glasses . |
| 7 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family , so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from , then usually the Parish Registers and things like the Census Returns over the last hundred years are usually able to help them . |
| 8 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got some , something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from . |
| 9 | Nor do they even care very much about their state of liquidity , so long as they think that they can force the banks to bail them out . |
| 10 | So long as they understand that there 's this also the erm you know er said to me , Oh it 's just English sort of said differently . |
| 11 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 12 | Nor does the fact that , so long as they consider that the affairs of the business they own are being conducted well enough on their behalf , owners do not choose to exercise their ultimate authority , provide any reason for supposing either that companies would be better managed if trade unions were implicated in management or that owners would acquiesce in the assumption , in whole or in part , of their rights by any other party — let alone by one whose essential interests are often opposed to their own . |
| 13 | The ITC made the determination and it would be inappropriate for me to comment upon the matter , especially as I believe that it is now sub judice , because the company has applied for judicial review . |
| 14 | Engineers already knew this , just as we know that the refrigerator will not work if it is not plugged in ; but Carnot 's achievement , when recognized after a quarter of a century , allowed theoretical understanding and in the end further advance in practice . |
| 15 | ‘ Just as I believe that the taking stock initiative improves the quality of government at national level so I believe that moving to single-tier all-purpose authorities will improve it at local level . |
| 16 | Er , just as I think that erm a variety of descriptions can pick out me . |
| 17 | Speaking of the activities of elementary particle physicists , he writes that whereas the activity appears essential as long as we believe in the independent existence of fundamental laws that we can still hope to know better , it loses practically its whole motivation as soon as we believe that the sole objective of the scientists is to make their impressions mutually consistent . |
| 18 | A further possible source of latent inhibition emerges as soon as we accept that any stimulus can be construed as consisting of a set of elements . |
| 19 | Most women go for it as soon as they hear that he 's a bachelor . |
| 20 | If you go away then as soon as you know that you 're going we 'll send off registration for Bishop Challener and that 's it and we can send off a year 's a year 's umm fees in advance ca n't we ? |
| 21 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 22 | As soon as you notice that you are breathing rapidly : |
| 23 | Get in contact with your lender as soon as you realise that you may have a problem meeting the repayments and continue to pay monthly as much as you can afford . |
| 24 | As soon as you realise that , I suspect you 'll be off like a shot . |
| 25 | Your vet should be consulted as soon as you suspect that your pet could have a problem of this nature . |
| 26 | Right so as soon as you see that you think , |
| 27 | As soon as I see that a patient 's breathing pattern is changing dramatically or that the eye movement behind the closed lids is altering , I instruct him to be aware of and to understand all that is happening but to see it as if on a film or television screen , so that he is completely detached and feels no physical or mental distress whatsoever . |
| 28 | ‘ I have contacted Bruno 's lawyer and told him to tell Frank that if he wants to fight Lennox he should get in contact with us directly as I understand that Duff 's promotional contract expires in April . |
| 29 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
| 30 | And as far as I know that that was the erm most erm sort of financially effective |