Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as it " in BNC.
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1 | If it does n't mean so much today as it did , it 's because rock is n't as strong as it was , it does n't matter so much anymore . ’ |
2 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
3 | Furthermore s. 2(4) European Communities Act 1972 provides that any Act of the Westminster Parliament shall be presumed not to conflict with EEC legislation , and will be given effect only so far as it does not conflict with the EEC legislation . |
4 | The best advice is : aim at concentrating all your intelligence on the specific question , and bring in your knowledge only so far as it is relevant . |
5 | An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem . |
6 | A company can protect information of this kind only so long as it is confidential to the business and not in the public domain . |
7 | On nearby Beinn an Lochain , a route called the Frog does n't stir the same dread , perhaps reasonably so as it is a II/III crossing Toad , and put up by Tom Redfern and Klaus Schwartz . |
8 | I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me . |
9 | ‘ Just so long as it does n't get in here . ’ |
10 | Just so long as it 's not ‘ gall ’ , ’ Lily said . |
11 | Sport encompasses things like hunting , all sorts of hunting : fox , hare otter , camel or whatever , just so long as it is conducted with hounds . |
12 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
13 | Any word could follow any other word , just so long as it matched the phonetic input description . |
14 | Does n't make any difference just so long as it 's equivalent to two pints of lager . |
15 | And it has a sonar location and detection system that can pick up a sunken object at the bottom of the ocean just as easily as it can pinpoint a lurking submarine . |
16 | However , if prisoners are at risk of sentence under the Public Order Act 1986 , the pack of information can explain that just as easily as it can explain the contents of this miserable and irrelevant little Bill . |
17 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
18 | Protectionist policies , designed to deal with unemployment , temporarily ended the rule of the Conservative Party at the end of 1923 just as surely as it helped the Conservative Party to political dominance in the 1930s . |
19 | The great agricultural revolution of our own times , in which drainage has played no small part , has accelerated the decline of the small farmer just as surely as it has imperilled the ecological system previously sustained by communal wetland management ; and , at the last , it has begun to destroy the basic resources of the land , as ever deeper drainage has created mineral problems in the soil , wastage of peat , and an increasing dependence upon pumping . |
20 | The last author commented ‘ increasing numbers of Americans have become aware that crime exists in the suites of many corporations just as surely as it exists in the streets of their cities and suburbs ’ . |
21 | And yet … there had been a moment when Dane 's undeniable magnetism had reached out to her , too , ensnaring her in its thrall just as surely as it captured every other female . |
22 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
23 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
24 | Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed . |
25 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
26 | The tug of war was still going on , just as fiercely as it ever had , only now Charles was tugging her towards Damian Flint while Jamie hurled accusations of betrayal . |
27 | Ions are fine for probing electrically conducting materials because the charge they carry to the specimen is carried away as fast as it builds up . |
28 | I heard screams of anguish , then the attack faded away as suddenly as it came . |
29 | The French boat slipped away as silently as it had arrived . |
30 | Going much more slowly now as it records more conver conversations . |