Example sentences of "[adv] as they [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 2 | All the males of the Khedive 's family tended to thicken out and age suddenly as they approached middle age . |
| 3 | The salesmen 's patter was good , polished at each performance and repeated daily as they attended different markets . |
| 4 | The macro-economic case for the widespread and general adoption of the industrial co-operative form is that it is just such another structure ; that the structural change lies in making labour the employer of capital rather than , as at present capital the employer of labour ; that such a change would fuse the interests of ownership and labour , interests which so long as they remain separate must also remain ultimately opposed ; and that , because relations among co-operatives and between producers and providers on the one hand , and consumers and users on the other would be determined by the operation of a free competitive market , the workers in each co-operative will be exposed to its imperative discipline . |
| 5 | Most commonly young women entered , and so long as they remained unmarried , stayed in domestic service . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , if they added that , they could also have their conquered victims become willing slaves , so long as they give regular dosages . |
| 7 | Moreover , agents of the process may be genuinely unaware of what they are doing for as long as they see good professional practice as unitary , consensual and unproblematic . |
| 8 | Of course , some people will refuse to co-operate at all , but once an interview is under way most people will be prepared to answer questions so long as they seem genuine and relevant . |
| 9 | Officers should be allowed ‘ to take part in conspiracies to import drugs so long as they withdrew prior to importation . ’ |
| 10 | The growth of self-help credit unions , much helped by the Credit Unions Act 1979 , may in future give a lower-cost credit option to many more of the weekly-paid , especially as they allow personal weekly payments of instalments . |
| 11 | The two men dropped out of their courses , moved to Stoke Newington in North London and stuck together as they became involved in the libertarian and squatter movements . |
| 12 | What stages do they go through as they acquire new words ? |
| 13 | Of course they got used to it , just as they got used to the closing of the railway , the death of the last squire , the demolition of the hall , the theft of the common land . |
| 14 | It 's hard for him to accept that everyone is different in every aspect of their biology — men have different sperm counts just as they have different numbers of hairs on their head or different eye colours . |
| 15 | Saunderson , Atkins and May DJ of course , just as they produce local kids with talent at their studio and put out their records on the myriad of small labels they share between them . |
| 16 | He went among the beggars who congregated in tube-station entrances , looking them over as they sat hunched and huddled on steps . |
| 17 | All victims were allowed to leave the USAF as soon as they tested positive . |
| 18 | The basis for that submission was that the officers ought to have arrested offenders as soon as they had sufficient evidence . |
| 19 | Plans must be made , but they will not be achieved unless activities are monitored , and deviations from plan identified and corrected as soon as they become apparent . |
| 20 | Buy bulbs for indoor flowering as soon as they become available . |
| 21 | Remember , you can at any time exchange our equipment for the latest models as soon as they become available . |
| 22 | Engineers were quick to shore up the weakened Botley Road Flyover in Oxford as soon as they found corroded support wires in the spans . |
| 23 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales tried to steal one another 's thunder yesterday as they swapped traditional roles . |
| 24 | The rules defining the nature of their liability to third parties are contained in ss9 and 12 of the Partnership Act as follows : s9 Every partner in a firm is liable jointly with the other partners … for all debts and obligations of the firm incurred while he is a partner ; and after his death his estate is also severally liable in a due course of administration for such debts and obligations , so far as they remain unsatisfied , but subject … to the prior payment of his separate debts . |
| 25 | As we shall see in the next chapter , the conference on the third day passed a resolution , which led to the formation of the BDDA , but on the preceding days it was concerned with the Report of the Royal Commission and its recommendations in so far as they affected deaf and dumb people . |
| 26 | All cities , in so far as they became modern cities in the last decades of the nineteenth century , underwent the following changes in the organization of public space : ( 1 ) The development of separate commercial districts . |
| 27 | New inventions are applied only in so far as they fit existing missions and strategies determined in previous wars . |
| 28 | Third , mechanical aids such as ventilators and the like may be classified as ‘ extraordinary measures ’ in so far as they involve excessive pain or other inconvenience . |
| 29 | The harshness of the bastardy laws should therefore be read as an expression of the state 's desire to reaffirm moral values , particularly as they governed female sexual behaviour , as well as a determination to curtail the burden of expenditure this particular group imposed on the community . |
| 30 | ‘ Where so old Iain Logan ? ’ said old Donald irritably as they came abreast . |