Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROS : Oh no — we 've been spinning coins for as long as I remember . |
| 2 | It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres . |
| 3 | To hold weekly Union meetings for as long as necessary to monitor the progress of the campaign . |
| 4 | Having got this far they can rest on their laurels for as long as they wish . |
| 5 | The traders sometimes called swagmen have battled against the plan and are keen to hold on to their pitches for as long as they can . |
| 6 | He was the managing director of Supersight Golf , and had been selling golf clubs for as long as most people could remember . |
| 7 | Managers have two good motives to avoid a deal with creditors for as long as they can : they keep their jobs longer , and they work for shareholders , who do not want a deal either . |
| 8 | If debtors and creditors are excluded the natural inclination of the vendor will be to pursue the debtors and delay paying the creditors for as long as possible . |
| 9 | Both companies are licensed to use this source code in their products for as long as they choose . |
| 10 | Look at the person — maintain contact with the eyes for as long as is comfortable , look away to the mouth when it becomes uncomfortable , then return to the eyes . |
| 11 | The law of averages , if I have got this right , means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their |
| 12 | The idea of ‘ care in the community ’ has developed over the past 20 years to encourage the development of services to help older people in need of care to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish , and for as long as is practical . |
| 13 | In recent years there has been a tremendous drive to keep elderly persons in their own homes for as long as possible , by giving close support to relatives and friends and by providing support from community services such as home helps and ‘ meals-on-wheels ’ . |
| 14 | The large extended family , with its reliable supporting cast of aunts , uncles and cousins , as well as sons and daughters , all willing to help older members to remain happily in their own homes for as long as possible , is a thing of the past . |
| 15 | Across the range of western industrial societies there is a trend towards decreased institutional provision and a greater emphasis upon the care and maintenance of older people in their own homes for as long as possible . |
| 16 | Finally , both health authorities and local authorities are firmly committed to a policy of supporting older people in their own homes for as long as possible . |
| 17 | In the context of this paper it is suggested that the following principles are added : dementia sufferers should be maintained in their own homes for as long as possible dementia sufferers should be maintained in their own community for as long as possible the number of moves should be kept to a minimum the independence , dignity and privacy of the sufferer must be respected the dementia sufferers must be involved as far as possible in discussions and decisions regarding their care and any possible move carers or potential carers should be involved in the decision-making process . |
| 18 | The sun came up about as often as it went down , in the long run , and a coin showed heads about as often as it showed tails . |
| 19 | When bad news was finally announced , dealers were instructed to conceal it from their clients for as long as possible . |
| 20 | She dug her heels in as hard as she could , realizing that a rider was after her , but for all her efforts the pounding of hooves was growing nearer and nearer . |
| 21 | Statutory advisers from the conservation bodies all gave us a list of the areas that they wanted included and , for the most part , we followed those lists in so far as they agreed with one another . |
| 22 | We had read that the Toraja hunted heads until as recently as the 1920s , but they were feared by their neighbours less for their ferocity than for their magic , part of which was their unnerving reputation for being able to cause the dead to walk . |
| 23 | This time they added 70 , played attacking strokes about as freely as was sensible in the conditions , and dug out or skipped a fair few difficult balls . |
| 24 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 25 | Finally I wish to report that Terry Snow , Peter Jacob and Clive Labovitch will be continuing as Chairmen of their respective subsidiary companies for so long as the executive directors remain responsible for their companies . |
| 26 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |
| 27 | It 's a white place , like Wigan which only seems to have a Black population on Tuesday nights when the music from the Wigan Pier nightclub 's jazz-funk DJ draws in young Blacks from as far as the Midlands to body-pop . |
| 28 | Nationalism may also contain racial elements in so far as particular nations may be regarded as deriving from specific racial stocks ; and biologically defined communities may be regarded as the prime source of cultural characteristics . |
| 29 | Literacy alone carries advantages in so far as child mortality is concerned . |
| 30 | And none of this would matter Chairman I do n't think er whether E two whether E two was in or out of the structure plan only matters in so far as it bears a part of the making of local plans and the making of planning applications in the county . |