Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | That way everyone born after that particular time would have their sins forgiven so long as they believed in Jesus . |
| 2 | Journalists do not mind being reminded so long as they do not think you are pressing them to write something they can not be sure will be published . |
| 3 | I 'm Quechua , but I do n't want to work as hard as they must do . |
| 4 | With the October 1987 stockmarket crash and , now , a British recession , these revenues have vanished as capriciously as they arrived . |
| 5 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 6 | There will always be homes , local authority as well as private sector , which do not always behave as well as they should within the rules . |
| 7 | In fact , Labov 's propensity to set out patterns in his data in a highly visual way is quite in the spirit of exploratory statistics ; but the data are not presented as comprehensively nor analysed as thoroughly as they would be using Tukey 's principles . |
| 8 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 9 | The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause . |
| 10 | In this case I am actually drawing with the brush and the colours will merge quite nicely as they are painted wet into wet . |
| 11 | The thirteen men moved closer together as they rode on . |
| 12 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 13 | Deer can be hunted , for example , whatever the reason , and nothing wrong is done so long as they are not overhunted . |
| 14 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 15 | He therefore directed that if J. were to suffer a life-threatening event while in the health authority 's care and the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority should cause such measures ( including artificial ventilation ) to be applied so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 16 | The canyon walls came close together as they rode in gathering darkness . |
| 17 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
| 18 | In seeking ways in which planning procedures could be made more efficient , the committee noted that ‘ not all authorities are operating as efficiently as they might ’ and the greatest scope for improvement lay in assisting all authorities to reach the standard set by the best . |
| 19 | AS the January flood waters receded as fast as they had risen , many questions were left unanswered . |
| 20 | One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves . |
| 21 | Our hospitals are so short of cash thanks to the shortsightedness of the Government that it 's a wonder hospitals function as well as they do . |
| 22 | Her tears dried as suddenly as they had appeared . |
| 23 | Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries . |
| 24 | They panic when driven out into the open and their first thought is to find cover as quickly as they can . |
| 25 | They came as quickly as they went . |
| 26 | For several months the Hong Kong Sevens waited , hoping that the country 's two rugby bodies would unite as quickly as they had in some other sports — most notably cricket . |
| 27 | TWO-TIMING men with neatly trimmed pencil moustaches who like to drink as hard as they work are unwittingly modelling themselves upon a style that is at least 4,500 years old , archaeologists have discovered . |
| 28 | A spokesman for one of the giant supermarket chains stocking Turtle food , says as far as they 're concerned , there 's plenty of nutritional value in their pizzas . |
| 29 | The first full edition seems to have been assembled in a very haphazard fashion , with names added as fast as they could be obtained , out of alphabetical order , and with an unreliable index . |
| 30 | But by the end of the decade they had absorbed the lessons learned by the other teams , and had accepted that , if they played as well as they could , they could win . |