Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Independent soft-commission brokers regard it as an acceptable method of payment so long as they deal at the best price . |
| 2 | We shall go on expanding higher and further education to ensure more of our young people go on to college as naturally as they once went down the pit or onto the shop floor . |
| 3 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |
| 4 | Two of them disappeared without trace as fast as they could . |
| 5 | It had been a part of her intention in coming here to banish those shades : already it seemed they were darkening her mind as surely as they still lowered across her father 's . |
| 6 | Exactly like the Philistines of Ashdod , Gath and Ekron , its people decide to get rid of the ark as quickly as they can . |
| 7 | If they are too far away to charge the Snotlings move towards the nearest enemy as fast as they are able . |
| 8 | Now , sadly , ( if the Press is to be believed ) they seem principally an anti-terrorist force , and whereas in 1944 their aims were sabotage and hitting a recognised enemy as hard as they could , today they are forced to deal largely with the un-uniformed enemy in our midst . |
| 9 | Instead , he did another trick with the steering-wheel , making her lurch forward again as they turned off the road , between a pair of high wrought-iron gates , and headed up a tree-lined gravel driveway towards a fabulous , sprawling , red-roofed villa . |
| 10 | McGilligan 's views will meet with general approval and reflect the mood in the Derry camp just now as they prepare to meet Dublin on Sunday week . |
| 11 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |
| 12 | This is regarded as a Good Thing by Orcs who are universally content with their lot , being ultimately happy to meet their end in battle so long as they get a chance of a good fight . |
| 13 | Disseminators of " indecent " material which lacks the potency to corrupt are generally within the law so long as they do not despatch it by post , or seek to import it from overseas , or flaunt it openly in public places . |
| 14 | Goodey has reported and concluded , that as long as they get their hundred per cent minimum requirement they can still go on their contribution holidays , and many and my scheme members feel that this is just a it 's a freebie as far as they 're concerned and scheme members do n't do not benefit from the surplus and they would like to have seen or preferred to have seen |
| 15 | When Aggie swung round with a lightness that always denied her heavy bulk and made hastily for the door , Millie flew after her and , jumping in front of her , threw her arms around her waist as far as they would go , crying , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 16 | Is it that they do not exert themselves enough ( we know that the English work as quickly as they work well ) ? |
| 17 | The BBC believe that no one does sport as well as they do — and they may be right . |
| 18 | I suspect that the Secretary of State 's inability to press that policy on the industry , and the industry 's failure to adopt it voluntarily before now , has done much to heighten public awareness of the reticence of the Secretary of State and of the industry to take the issue as seriously as they might . |
| 19 | For the social sciences have more to gain from each other than they have to lose , and the precise origin and pedigree of new findings and theories is of little importance so long as they extend and expand our understanding of the world . |
| 20 | The intermediate targets should be destinations in their own right so long as they offer a good starting point for the next stage . |
| 21 | Institutions are viewed as expressions of collective purposes which maintain vitality so long as they are able to maintain a clear sense of purpose . |
| 22 | Stamford have given me a list of local McCloys and there again not a sniff as far as they know . |
| 23 | With their bizarre appearance and seemingly mysterious but treacherous way of life , the dodders have certainly latched on to human imagination as successfully as they do to the innumerable species of plants they parasitise , spawning fables , myths and fascinating names such as love vine , immortal vine , vine in the sky , beggar vine , strangleweed , devil 's gut , scald and so on . |
| 24 | There 's a lot of competition to get your space , specially with the Latins ; they 're not used to a woman doing the same job as well as they do . ’ |
| 25 | However , night workers will never perform their job as efficiently as they would during the day , for the master clock controls far more than just our cycle of sleeping and waking . |
| 26 | Men like him were born with charm , exuded sensuality as unthinkingly as they breathed in air . |
| 27 | Children really are on another planet as far as they are concerned . |
| 28 | They are water-based products which dry fairly quickly , and they can be washed off tools and hands with water so long as they are still wet . |
| 29 | The time may have come to urge a historic settlement , whereby people in Essex can hang each other to their hearts ' content so long as they do not interfere with traditional sporting practices in the rest of the country . |
| 30 | Modern society , it may be argued , is not like a set of neatly intermeshing and well-oiled cogs , but rather a game in which groups of players have considerable discretion so long as they keep within a set of rules which are often themselves rather loosely defined or at least open to negotiation and change . |