Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher pledged that the relief would remain for as long as she was Prime Minister and the opposition parties appear unwilling to commit themselves to abolishing it . |
| 2 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 3 | The head said that that would be the case and that Balbinder would stay for as long as he needed their help . |
| 4 | This has been described as " the affection of a man that clingeth to God , a homely and pious speaking , a standing of the enlightened soul unto enjoying for so long as may be " . |
| 5 | Richard Baxter continued to write and to preach for as long as he could . |
| 6 | So far about 400 hectares of land have been reclaimed and the programme is to continue for as long as is necessary . |
| 7 | The systematic component will persist for as long as the unemployment rate deviates from its natural value , U * ; . |
| 8 | Cavity treatment should be delayed for as long as possible to allow the injected solution to remain in contact with blood and other body fluids and care to avoid spillage should be exercised when carrying out drainage . |
| 9 | In such a slice , appropriate stimulation of the input pathways will also lead to LTP which persists for as long as the slice can be maintained alive . |
| 10 | I decided to try for as long as he was trying . |
| 11 | Your Board is confident that the plan for restructuring the Group will result in a more streamlined , flexible and dynamic organisation and it is intended that it be carried through as fast as possible . |
| 12 | They talked about other Christmas flops and bombs , delaying for as long as they could any mention of TCT 's ‘ T is He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ , which had cost practically nothing to make and had already done 120 million in its first three weeks . |
| 13 | Wooden dowel has been used for kite spars for as long as we can recall . |
| 14 | Stereotypes , however false , tend to persist for as long as the social differences and inequalities they reinforce . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've waited sixteen years to hear from my father and they can wait for as long as I can drag this thing out . |
| 16 | She had gone up to her room now as if she was simply going to sit there and wait for as long as it took , and when the plane disappeared from sight Maggie went to find her . |
| 17 | Keep the sail driving for as long as you can through the tacks . |
| 18 | The earliest industrial sites are now often looked after as carefully as those of abbeys and castles . |
| 19 | Children repair what they themselves say from as early as one or one-and-a-half years of age . |
| 20 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 21 | Car hire girl Lorna Wilson , 30 , who saw the crash just yards from her office , said : ‘ The driver seemed to appear from nowhere just as the whole place went up in flames . |
| 22 | Sightings have been reported from as far as France and the Netherlands . |
| 23 | The analogy holds in so far as stylistic competence , like linguistic competence , is a capacity which we possess and exercise unconsciously and intuitively : only with special training can it be turned into explicit knowledge . |
| 24 | ‘ You can wear whatever you want to as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |
| 25 | There was considerable substance in the complaints of Labour that national insurance added to as well as diminished the burdens of poorer workers . |
| 26 | No matter how poor the programming , if these dishes had been as glossy and futuristic as compact discs , say , then they might have caught on as rapidly as , well , CDs themselves . |
| 27 | In raising questions about curriculum content and balance , therefore , the balance and disposition of these generic activities must be looked at as searchingly as the balance of subject time . |
| 28 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 29 | The guarantee can be made for as long as the manufacturer chooses . |
| 30 | The second interpretation can be arrived at by reading the provision in two parts : ( 1 ) judges ' commissions are to be made for as long as they behave themselves , implying that if they misbehave they may be dismissed by the Crown ; ( 2 ) they may be removed by the Crown on an Address of both Houses , even though they have not misbehaved themselves . |