Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temptation must be resisted as firmly and valiantly as I have resisted the other , more obvious , more sensual lures and snares . |
| 2 | Whatever we want from our lives now — the Booker Prize , a recording contract , a promotion , a Porsche convertible , the girl at the Virgin Megastore checkout desk — we can not possibly have coveted it for as long as we have cherished dreams of football glory , dreams which have remained fundamentally unchanged since childhood . |
| 3 | If they are lost or stolen , you can recover their value so long as you have kept a note of their numbers separately . |
| 4 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |
| 5 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 6 | ‘ We lost a lot of custom that night , especially as we have built up quite a good reputation . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It would be pleasant to lift the McKillop Cup especially as we have had a tough campaign so far . |
| 8 | Against this can be set the fact that the following chapters present very full accounts of their lives and works which should at least allow readers to make their own judgments , especially as we have included ( in an appendix to the book ) details of our ‘ SADS-L ’ procedure . |
| 9 | ‘ My family has always helped me out , but it 's getting hard , especially as I have to give up work for four months . ’ |
| 10 | Sadly , I can not share your optimistic conclusion , which implies we will always muddle through together as we have done so often in the past . |
| 11 | [ Finally as we have mentioned before it is now necessary for me to obtain a Corporate Finance Engagement Letter and we enclose two copies of our standard letter . |
| 12 | Thus as we have seen Darwin pulled a plank out from under the creation stories . |
| 13 | To use the language of Moscovici and his co-workers ( Moscovici , 1982 , 1983 , 1984 ; Jodelet , 1984 ) social psychologists need to gather information about the social representation of ‘ prejudice ’ in majority discourse , just as they have studied the social representation of minority groups . |
| 14 | But since some writers do seem to have an aversion to the hyphen — just as they have lost the art of splitting words in the logical places ( tran-sport , winds-creen , ins-pector , screwd-river , etc ) — let them run them together for clarity . |
| 15 | But just as they have done throughout the past three years , we find the Opposition spokesmen contradicting each other . |
| 16 | Just as they have struggled against West Indian speed , they have now been unhinged by Indian spin . |
| 17 | Just as we have adopted an intuitive approach to the concept of set so we shall allow our intuition to guide us in the matter of whether or not an explanation is logically acceptable : to formalise the notion of acceptability would take us too far afield , into symbolic logic . |
| 18 | We can say , too , that if there are large creatures in Loch Ness , then they would appear on sonar just as we have recorded them . |
| 19 | ‘ We have rejected quality in expression , just as we have rejected quality in the buildings in which we work and educate . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We have rejected quality in expression , just as we have rejected quality in the buildings in which we work and educate . ’ |
| 21 | Different species of lemur occupy different living spaces just as we have seen with the guenons of the African forests . |
| 22 | When men are hungry they require to eat ; just as we have done . ’ |
| 23 | One assumption is that any intelligent species will in due course develop a technology , just as we have done . |
| 24 | We write AK = KH as unc Just as we have done earlier , we can evaluate the n2 unknowns progressively . |
| 25 | An individual will go through the process just as we have outlined it already . |
| 26 | Just as we have found it convenient to think of genes as active agents , working purposefully for their own survival , perhaps it might be convenient to think of memes in the same way . |
| 27 | Just as you have written off the 1991 vintage in France , a sample appears on the doorstep to confound you . |
| 28 | In the Guides you will work for Interest Badges just as you have done in Brownies . |
| 29 | Just as you have stretched your body beyond what you had previously thought possible , so you can stretch your mind . |
| 30 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |