Example sentences of "[adv] as [det] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Citizens of the United Kingdom do , however , have an individual right of access to the European enforcement agencies whether Her Majesty 's government likes it or not , so long that is , and only so long as that government continues to accede to the Convention and the jurisdiction of the machinery which it establishes . |
| 2 | So long as that situation continues , the British meat and livestock industry will be placed at a severe competitive disadvantage . |
| 3 | And yet , so long as this land contains a politically-aware football manager , Mrs T will not be forgotten . |
| 4 | Christians must have difficulty in using the bible to speak to contemporary issues so long as this belief persists . |
| 5 | In short , nothing that is in the process of development or change , strictly speaking , can be claimed to be numerically the same as long as this process lasts , for existents are individuated only by their full life-cycles . |
| 6 | I 'm going to live for as long as this forest remains standing . |
| 7 | But , for as long as any paradigm holds , they do have some court of last resort . |
| 8 | The scheme has another advantage , in that it is a very cost-effective way of brightening the place up , especially as each design has a ‘ tube life ’ of at least a year . |
| 9 | In practice , of course , economies of scale and economies of scope are processes which are usually run together as any firm diversifies . |
| 10 | Nobody in this business is infallible , but if something does go wrong , the customer must know that the contractor has the technical resources and financial muscle to put it right ; just as that contractor needs to have the resources and skilled manpower to tackle any infestation , and be neither too big to care nor too small to cope . |
| 11 | Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school . |
| 12 | Each of the four poems has five sections , and each of the sections reflects upon its counterparts in the other poems ; just as each poem develops and resolves its theme , so " Little Gidding " gathers up the three preceding ones in a magisterial synthesis . |
| 13 | It changes over time , just as any language does : no one nowadays speaks in the same way as the contemporaries of Chaucer or Shakespeare or even Dickens . |
| 14 | As soon as such heterogeneity enters into a polymer chain , information technology becomes a theoretical possibility . |
| 15 | If it is thought that the growers of any kind of grain in any part of the world have been losing money , and are likely to sow a smaller area for a future harvest ; it is argued that prices are likely to rise as soon as that harvest comes into sight , and its shortness is manifest to all . |
| 16 | It has a unique function which can not be commanded , it simply happens automatically once per day for the character carrying the book as soon as that character suffers any lost Wounds from a melee or missile attack . |
| 17 | now he passed that on , that had , sort of knowledge on through the people in the shop okay , if you , soon as that link gets broken and you go into a shop something like erm Burtons okay , big retail shop like Burtons , you go in there you 'll have a manager in there and assistants and so on , but their background knowledge has nothing to do with tailoring , nothing at all |
| 18 | As soon as that packet has gone |
| 19 | phone up the order before and , and as soon as that enquiry 's taken |
| 20 | As soon as any adventurer takes an item from a corpse , tell him that he can see ghostly shapes forming in the shadows . |
| 21 | As soon as any kite touches the ground it is eliminated . |
| 22 | As soon as any woman gets a bit uppity , or any two or more women or young women want to spend time together , or even if we just plain disagree with the men or boys , the ultimate sanction can be applied : call her a lesbian — that will soon bring her back into line . |
| 23 | The bout is over as soon as either contestant achieves that score . |
| 24 | Both of these , both of these , the environmentally sensitive road system and the adequately funded public transport system will be introduced as soon as this country elects a Liberal Democrat Government . |
| 25 | Choose a character who is central to the story , and pause as soon as this character appears on the screen . |
| 26 | However , as soon as this female lays her eggs the male deserts her , leaving her to rear this brood by herself . |
| 27 | You and your mutt can rot and die as soon as this arrangement stops being worthwhile for me . ’ |
| 28 | Joseph said to Merlyn : ‘ We 'll go just as soon as this weather lets up . |
| 29 | Okay and I 'll talk to your insurance company as soon as this letter comes through , hopefully |
| 30 | My own view is that the Church of England must win its crisis of nerve and dare to do things differently as this millennium draws to a close . |