Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That prospect is anyway slight so long as Soviet-American cosiness continues and Iraq 's war machine remains broken . |
| 2 | Its distribution in space becomes more and more contorted by the velocity fluctuations , but so long as molecular diffusion plays no role , the marked fluid is always just the same fluid . |
| 3 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 4 | The process will continue for as long as earthly life endures . |
| 5 | This probably represents the future , at any rate so long as petroleum-led growth continues to provide opportunities for differentiation . |
| 6 | So long as parliamentary sovereignty remains " the one fundamental law " of the Constitution , there is no way in which substantive rights can be entrenched and put beyond the reach of Parliament . |
| 7 | The council 's threat bewilders and frightens them , especially as other legislation requires them to ‘ destroy by fire ’ diseased waste like clubroot infections and potato haulms . |
| 8 | The teaching for objectives ( 3 ) and ( 5 ) may , in practice , run together as increasing competence enables the nurse to take more responsibility for the work . |
| 9 | When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds . |
| 10 | Previously unpolluted ecosystems begin to change almost as soon as extra nitrogen arrives because the plants and animals living there are adapted to low-nitrogen conditions . |
| 11 | Art , it seems , is the perpetual recidivist , always ducking back into the aesthetic as soon as vigilant life averts its gaze . |
| 12 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 13 | I mean I could get this whole place so tidy and the kids come home from school and it 's like a bomb 's exploded and nothing 's appreciated about it , whereas if you 're decorating or teaching children there 's something always gained out of it … as far as actual housework goes , I do n't see how anyone can like it . |
| 14 | It was tempting to the author to use one part of his own surname — Kease — which , so far as current research reveals , is unique to his family . |
| 15 | There is a substantial amount of evidence for peasant discontent before 1381 , most of it ( as far as existing evidence shows ) being concentrated in the Central and East Midlands and in the Home Counties , precisely those parts of England where manorialization was most fully developed . |
| 16 | In so far as bureaucratic power has become a problem for modern democracy , it has been a result of the inadequacies of political control as much as the internal features of bureaucracies themselves . |
| 17 | which we can be sure , or think we can be sure , of biological connection is always very narrow ; but sociological kinship , which depends only on our willingness to slot individuals into particular verbal categories , can be extended as far as we like , or rather as far as local convention requires , and that may be thousands of miles and include many thousands of individuals . |
| 18 | As far as urban sociology goes , however , spatial and social mobility is what Savage calls the ‘ missing link ’ . |
| 19 | The characteristic network structures of these different types of community are also relevant to the manner in which change may come about , in so far as urban growth tends at first to weaken strong pre-existing rural networks . |
| 20 | ‘ I might say this in closing , ’ he said , ‘ … as far as foreign policy goes , Mr Kissinger ( Mr Ford 's secretary of state ) has been the president of this country . |
| 21 | One can only guess who these earliest settlers may have been , but the existence of Norse as well as Gaelic place-names suggests that the islands were known to the Vikings . |
| 22 | Inductive as well as deductive reasoning involves the relationships between various sets of statements and not relationships between statements on the one hand and perceptual experiences on the other . |
| 23 | Now that the Federal Republic has vanished , François Mitterrand 's efforts to lock Germany into a system of political as well as economic interdependencies seems the only secure way to stabilise Western Europe . |
| 24 | Other shapes include elliptical and spandrel , as well as extra soffit strips for wider walls , and rectangular make-up pieces , which can be used between arch corners , or to lengthen the centre of a semi-circular arch . |
| 25 | As well as other Yankee tipples you can even get American beer . |
| 26 | The book provides wonderful inspiration for gifts as well as practical household tips for using flowers and herbs in your own home . |
| 27 | Commonsense as well as academic studies dictates otherwise . |
| 28 | Common sense as well as medical evidence tells us , however , that excessive drinking over a long period of time can lead to health problems — and that drinking vast quantities in a short space of time is both foolish and dangerous . |
| 29 | It has recently been suggested that chronic inflammation in patients with Crohn 's disease as well as peptic ulceration induces buds at the bottom of gastrointestinal crypts in the mucosa adjacent to ulcers . |
| 30 | No issue has confirmed this more than the environment , where public as well as legislative pressure has helped produce a surge in environmental programmes across industries , particularly in the US . |