Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] [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 | That prospect is anyway slight so long as Soviet-American cosiness continues and Iraq 's war machine remains broken . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And yet , so long as this land contains a politically-aware football manager , Mrs T will not be forgotten . |
| 6 | Christians must have difficulty in using the bible to speak to contemporary issues so long as this belief persists . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 'm going to live for as long as this forest remains standing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But , for as long as any paradigm holds , they do have some court of last resort . |
| 11 | The process will continue for as long as earthly life endures . |
| 12 | This probably represents the future , at any rate so long as petroleum-led growth continues to provide opportunities for differentiation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In practice , of course , economies of scale and economies of scope are processes which are usually run together as any firm diversifies . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | All these approaches have had a degree of success , but the drug scene is a dynamic , creative one where just as one drug seems to be under control , a new threat emerges . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As soon as such heterogeneity enters into a polymer chain , information technology becomes a theoretical possibility . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | As soon as that packet has gone |
| 30 | phone up the order before and , and as soon as that enquiry 's taken |