Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so long as a transaction falls within the scope of an activity set out in the objects clause ( ’ manufacturing ’ , ‘ property development ’ , and so on ) it will be authorised . |
| 2 | Lear is now experiencing the truth of La Rochefoucauld 's maxim that ‘ So long as a man is still in a position to help others he will rarely encounter ingratitude . ’ |
| 3 | Those days have gone only so long as a Government are in power who are determined to continue a regime of common sense and reasonable and balanced industrial relations . |
| 4 | The justification supposes that so long as a person is possessed of a right , that right may be exercised regardless of the consequences for others . |
| 5 | So long as a majority of Northern Ireland voters prefer to remain with the United Kingdom , we must concentrate our energies on protection for those on whom the terrorists wage war . |
| 6 | So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism . |
| 7 | So long as a head of state — and thus his circle of patronage — can change quite unexpectedly , multi-country regional groupings will have to overcome major political as well as economic problems . |
| 8 | So long as a fissure is known to exist between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor about the ERM , the task of convincing the financial markets that policy is in safe hands will be made infinitely more difficult . |
| 9 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 10 | The sickle lasted for so long as a harvesting tool for this very reason : it was still used in preference to the swap-hook and scythe in some areas because its use , although slower , conserved the grain . |
| 11 | Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field . |
| 12 | Therefore , only so long as a woman is in labour shall he give up Israel ; and then those that survive of his race shall rejoin their brethren . |
| 13 | So long as a tiger stands still or moves slowly , its stripes make it practically invisible in the jungle or among reeds . |
| 14 | Articles 85 and 86 of Table A ( prescribed pursuant to the Companies Act 1985 ) provide that so long as a director has disclosed his interest to the company , he may be a party to or interested in any transaction , and shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the company for any benefit he receives from such a transaction . |
| 15 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 16 | Because the bottom line so far as a broadcaster 's concerned , or a studio 's , a station 's concerned , is to keep the listeners listening . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) The general rule does not apply so far as a provision of the consolidating Acts gives effect to an amendment ( in pursuance of a recommendation of the Law Commission and , in some cases , the Scottish Law Commission ) . |
| 18 | But worse , at this point design can " no longer be aware of itself for to separate the social formative and communicative-representational functions is to reduce itself , to make its activity into a variation of technical activity , unimportant in itself , important only in so far as a problem can be solved through it , a product constructed . |
| 19 | In much the same vein , one LEA considered recently a draft of a newsletter to parents outlining the implication of those rights so far as a child 's education in their early years was concerned . |
| 20 | Finance was not , in fact , particularly in question , as Mr Maugham had provided for his family with a thoroughness that bordered upon the reckless — in so far as a man may squander upon insurance , he had done so . |
| 21 | In so far as a government wants to have money to spend , it must be raised . |
| 22 | In so far as a stranger , on a brief visit supported by senior officials from the area , could judge the pupils were happy , receiving a balanced education and in most cases planning to follow in the family footsteps . |
| 23 | The LIFESPAN Manager account is required only in so far as a VMS account with the privileges CMKRNL , SYSPRV , SYSNAM , DETACH , LOG_IO and WORLD must be available to start and stop LIFESPAN Processes and to undertake the administrative duties detailed in Section 3 of this guide . |
| 24 | In so far as a timetable can be thought of as functioning like a rule it can be thought of as an instrument of order . |
| 25 | Do you think that there is a disadvantage to being a woman at school , so far as a science subject 's concerned ? |
| 26 | No one thinks that a female MP can not represent both the men and the women in her constituency just as effectively as a man . |
| 27 | The distinction here is between two very distinct schools of harpsichord-making ; a tradition carried on by native craftsmen who flourished during the first 25 years of the 18th century and an imported tradition initiated by Hermann Tabel that displaced its native rival as effectively as a cuckoo might take charge in a sparrow 's nest . |
| 28 | His car was likened to a bullet … and just as effectively as a bullet he killed five people . |
| 29 | The wolf took it from his hand as delicately as a cat , and licked his palm . |
| 30 | Yet , if she stopped to examine it , was n't there something better than intoxication being built between them , as delicately as a spider 's web , line by gossamer line ? |