Example sentences of "[adv] as it [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ideology relating to gender roles underpins the structure of sociology much as it does the structure of social life . |
| 2 | Clearly , this must be the case so long as it remains the only easily available platform for interactive multimedia . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He might feel that any heir , even one who disinherits him , is worth having so long as it keeps the name going . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | But at least it pays no rent and in practice it is secure so long as it farms the land and avoids bankruptcy . |
| 8 | It need not be accurate so long as it shows the disposition of the rooms — — information which will be of great value later . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It will still bob up and down as it hits the successive wavefronts . |
| 13 | As a safety measure , the warhead completes its arming process only as it nears the target . |
| 14 | Let the hand spring away as it touches the skin . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | I have ridden in the hon. Gentleman 's car , which is so large that it enters Wandsworth as soon as it enters the boundary of Lambeth . |
| 19 | The logarithm of the number of men having at least s units of solidity will at first fall linearly with s , then more rapidly as it approaches the fixed upper limit of 1000 papers , beyond which no man has achieved . ’ |
| 20 | In other words , the undersurface curves upwards as it approaches the trailing edge.In fact this is so prominent in the Flexifoil that the section could be said to be upside down ! |
| 21 | The conditioner has a single rotor with pivoting U-shaped tines which toss the grass upwards as it leaves the cutting blades . |
| 22 | Now as it approaches the witching hour of um the witching hour of ten to ten I suggest we all go and run about a little bit for for ten minutes and I 'll do something about some of the emotional effects and some of the therapies in the next hour for all those who 're interested hello tape recorder , there 'll be another hour in a minute . |
| 23 | Next , it will support the claim that corporate power is justifiable only in so far as it promotes the public interest , and accordingly that society is entitled to demand that company policies serve that interest . |
| 24 | Any tense which includes a component of the present tense such as the passé composé ( il a écrit ) is personal in so far as it acknowledges the present moment of the utterance . |
| 25 | The nominal value is meaningless and may be misleading , except in so far as it determines the minimum liability . |
| 26 | The price is not important except in so far as it determines the number of units to be created after subscriptions have been received . |
| 27 | Law and custom thus defend the family as the prime agent of socialisation only in so far as it fulfils the task currently prescribed . |
| 28 | However , our basic model may be criticized in advance of this discussion in so far as it ignores the monetary effects of fiscal decisions and so may overstate the case in favour of macroeconomic management through this route . |
| 29 | It does , however , link the law to the idea of harm and this is valuable in so far as it reduces the risk that boisterous behaviour , or other non-violent activity , can by itself amount to a breach of the peace . |
| 30 | Under s8 of UCTA 1977 , s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 is replaced by the following : 3 — If a contract contains a term which would exclude or restrict ( a ) any liability to which a party to a contract may be subject by reason of any misrepresentation made by him before the contract was made ; or ( b ) any remedy available to another party to the contract by reason of such a misrepresentation , that term shall be of no effect except in so far as it satisfies the requirement of reasonableness as stated in s11(1) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ; and it is for those claiming that the term satisfies that requirement to show that it does . |