Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [vb -s] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , this lens allows the patient to view a stimulus for as long as s/he desires while also enabling the investigator to present the stimulus to one hemisphere alone .
2 Thus , this lens allows the patient to view a stimulus for as long as s/he desires while also enabling the investigator to present the stimulus to one hemisphere alone .
3 In extremely dry periods , the lungfish of Africa just bury themselves in the mud at the bottom of their temporary ponds , and wait for as long as it takes until it rains again .
4 If an Act of Parliament has been obtained improperly , it is for the legislature to correct it by repealing it : but , so long as it exists as law , the courts are bound to obey it .
5 So long as he remembers that , when mounting a picket in his opponents ' penalty area , he is only allowed a maximum of six operatives on the line , he should be able to enjoy free and frank access to the other side 's position .
6 He will never be content , so long as he knows that he is in our debt . ’
7 Especially as it melts and forms a
8 Baited hook sinks , stick-float rises , settles down as it travels while you dress the line .
9 As soon as one says that one is going to study organizational life indeed , any aspect of human life — one runs up against the problem of what lens to use to view the scene .
10 In reading , or being read to , one has the security of knowing that one has the ability to withdraw from the emotional situation as soon as one wishes or needs to do so .
11 The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location .
12 As paragraph 16.1 of Code C makes clear , the police officer is obliged to charge a suspect as soon as he believes that there is sufficient evidence for a prosecution to succeed , but nobody could expect the police simply to cease work on the case and rely at the trial only on the material revealed up to the moment of charging .
13 ‘ But as soon as someone says that four-letter word , it will be ‘ do you have to use that language ? ’
14 After it is painted onto the wood it sets very quickly as it cools and the joint is soon firm .
15 Now , when I touch his cheek with my finger , he responds normally , but not as quickly as he responds when he is held to the breast .
16 Crying is more usual in the evenings and the baby may draw its legs up as it cries and become very red in the face .
17 But she has no intention of changing course now as she believes that , run as separate entities , the shops remain manageable and provide a strong incentive to succeed for the franchisees .
18 This is true , of course , in so far as it means that no contemporary authors were going to write stories about a single murderer being exposed when lawlessness was rife and human life generally seen as of little account .
19 Indeed , the passage in Megarry on The Rent Acts , at pp. 386–387 is wrong , in so far as it suggests that there may be a right in a landlord to re-enter peaceably , in the circumstances of this sort of case , between an order for possession and execution of the order by the bailiff .
20 Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class .
21 With Creation 6 you can see on your PC screen the effect that the proportional grid will have on your design regarding both the knitting techniques and swatch size as well as what happens when swatch measurements and knitting techniques are combined .
22 Well as he says when he 's at home he likes to get down the pub with the boys for a pint because of course it is dry Up There .
23 Yet one understands and sympathizes with the reader who urges for that word to be said ( even as he/she understands that it can not be ) , and no amount of earnest preaching that this is the way things are , that no certainties can be reached , will attenuate the sense of frustration that accompanies our contemplation of the ruins .
24 Slowly , he corners the frightened younger boy , talks reassuringly as he kisses and caresses him .
25 She has such a thirst after knowledge that the more she knows , I verily think the humbler she is , and I can not help letting go as fast as she pulls as my son used to do to his kite .
26 The term representation is used here as it suggests that ideas are constructed rather than simply reflected upon or passively received .
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