Example sentences of "[adv] as [pers pn] [vb -s] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Ketamine lacks the euphoric and social properties that led o the widespread use of MDMA , the drug is likely to disappear as suddenly as it seems to have emerged . |
| 2 | A spokesman said the seven Kurds released from Haslar detention centre , near Gosport , Hampshire , and all 18 from Gloucester Prison were given temporary admission ‘ for as long as it takes to assess their cases ’ . |
| 3 | With its inflation still rising , the country on the verge of a perilous wage-price spiral and public finances deeply in the red , the Bundesbank has made it clear that it will keep the German economy locked in a vice of high interest rates for as long as it takes to squeeze out inflation . |
| 4 | The heating is switched on only for as long as it takes to dry the washing . |
| 5 | What rhino likes is fucking and killing , killing and fucking ; he is n't at all fussy which end he fucks , so long as he gets to fuck . |
| 6 | Some might worry that he is allowing the Californians to influence him too much , but I ca n't help feeling that so long as he manages to stay on his horse he remains the best sort of Englishman aborad . |
| 7 | Anyone who gives him a flak jacket ( that is , consent ) may take it back , but the doctor only needs one and so long as he continues to have one he has the legal right to proceed . |
| 8 | He would be the first name on my team sheet for as long as he continues to keep fit . |
| 9 | Check that you have the positioning right and encourage your baby to feed for as often and long as he wants to stimulate the flow . |
| 10 | Under the STV a candidate must compete not only with political opponents but also with candidates of his own party , and compete in a popularity contest which , commencing with his first election campaign , will have to last without remission for as long as he wishes to hold his seat . |
| 11 | This leads me to analyse political behaviour , especially as it relates to conflict . |
| 12 | If you send a compressed ZIP file down the wire , V42bis will actually slow things down as it struggles to compress the incompressible |
| 13 | Pulling power may be slightly down as it Deems to fall off quickly against head winds or uphill gradients , when running constant changing up and down with overdrive even on the level . |
| 14 | It can take just as much fortitude to go it alone as it does to keep up a public front . |
| 15 | Do they do it all at once , or in chronological order , or just as it seems to emerge ? |
| 16 | I usually follow fashion very slowly and creep in just as it starts to look dated , but then I think that 's the way I should do it . |
| 17 | For example , tap your toddler 's hand sharply , with an incisive ‘ No ! ’ , just as he moves to touch the electric fire . |
| 18 | This may be caused to some extent by the general abstractness of the language ; but it is also a matter of the kinds of syntactic presentation and complexity that James favours : ( i ) Just as he seems to avoid calling a spade a spade , so James seems to avoid putting first things first . |
| 19 | Trying to isolate a cow just as she starts to calve is the worst solution possible . |
| 20 | If he does not become Chancellor , he will remain in the news anyway as he attempts to push through the Government 's toughest privatisation yet , British Rail . |
| 21 | When she cries in her sleep , try not to fuss her , and do n't worry about her eating trouble — as soon as she begins to realise that you are a family unit her tum will never let her starve ! |
| 22 | As soon as he begins to think pleasurably of his bed . ’ |
| 23 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 24 | Because as soon as it starts to die down you could probably go back on to Betnovate to keep it maintained . |
| 25 | However , as soon as it begins to accelerate smoothly , that movement is no longer necessary , and the control should be moved to get the glider balanced nicely on to the main wheel . |
| 26 | The child is rewarded as soon as he/she manages to imitate all or part of the model . |
| 27 | It is questionable that texts can always be read as favourably as she seeks to do . |
| 28 | HE 'S the wackiest cop on TV — and he aims to make you groan like never before as he tries to crack his latest case . |
| 29 | Vice-president MacFarlane will have plenty on his plate now as he tries to pull all the ideas together into the first draft paper on the way to creating the eventual plan for formal consideration in November . |
| 30 | Section 296A(1) also makes any term or condition in an agreement void in so far as it purports to prohibit or restrict the use of any device or means to observe , study or test the functioning of a computer program in order to understand the ideas and principles underlying any element of the program . |