Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appeared quite suddenly as they turned a sharp bend , an imposing stone edifice with ivy-clad walls , set among tall poplars , well back from the road . |
| 2 | Much as I admire a great deal of Ken Worpole 's contributions to discussion on alternative methods of arts funding — his and Geoff Mulgan 's ‘ Saturday Night , Sunday Morning ’ was an invaluable piece of work — his thoughts ( almost gleeful I thought ) on the problems of civic buildings ( MT May ) were shot through with the baby-out-with-the-bathwater conclusions which seem to be endemic in much new times and new Left thinking on the arts generally . |
| 3 | He watched her thoughtfully as she ate a biscuit . |
| 4 | Father dismissed all this as typical South American ferment , and believed that all would be well as long as we sang a hymn before breakfast . |
| 5 | So long as we adopt a broadly ‘ functionalist ’ philosophy of mind — in which mental states are defined in terms of their causal relations to sensory inputs , motor outputs and to one another — this ‘ computational theory of the mind ’ is a very satisfying general account of the mind-body relationship . |
| 6 | Mr Skinner insisted : ‘ There will always be a need for socialism , whether in Britain or anywhere else , so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes , so long as we have a system which allows the poor countries of the world to hand over $50m to the rich . ’ |
| 7 | The senior officials of these institutions are therefore more or less free to act as they wish , so long as they show a reasonable profit . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The intermediate targets should be destinations in their own right so long as they offer a good starting point for the next stage . |
| 10 | Ailing animals , so long as they have a solvent owner in two , are our bread and butter . |
| 11 | She did n't mind about that so long as she got a lovely little grave like Mrs Hollidaye 's baby daughter . |
| 12 | The agreement recited that John had left all his estate to his executors by his will but that , shortly before his death , he had declared in the presence of several witnesses that he wished his widow to have the cottage for her life or so long as she continued a widow ; and that , though this wish was never put into writing , the executors were convinced that it was his desire and were willing and desirous that it should be put into effect . |
| 13 | Indeed , it is most unlikely that Israel will give up its nuclear capability in the foreseeable future , so long as it foresees a threat to its land from its neighbour . |
| 14 | British law in this area is roughly based on the liberal precept that immorality may only be tolerated so long as it remains a wholly private matter . |
| 15 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 16 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |
| 17 | So long as you set a limit to the essay you will have confidence and control . |
| 18 | ‘ How you feel is how you feel and how you climax is how you climax , and so long as you let a man know those things , there should n't be a problem , ’ David said . |
| 19 | He does seem eager , up behind some , long as you get a right distance , too far and you get oh , they 're fighting it again , whereas you can get right up . |
| 20 | You can write single line , multi statement functions so long as you have a colon after the definition statement . |
| 21 | Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and |
| 22 | A gentleman of the faculty in the neighbourhood , hearing of the circumstance , and finding it so well authenticated , immediately made him an offer of ten guineas for the dog , which the grateful farmer refused , exultingly adding that so long as he had a bone in his meat , or a crust to his bread , he would divide it with the faithful friend who had preserved his life : arid this he did in a perfect conviction that the warmth of the dog , in covering the most vital part , had continued the circulation arid prevented a total stagnation of the blood by the frigidity of the elements . " |
| 23 | Our art historian pin-up of the month is the Italian Vittorio Sgarbi , specialist in the late fifteenth-century Bolognese artist Antonio di Crevalcore , but happy to give his opinion on anything and anyone , so long as he reaches a public of millions ( as on last month 's cover of L'Espresso magazine ) . |
| 24 | Long as he wears a kilt . |
| 25 | Even a 25-year-old male with a couple of speeding convictions leaving the car on the street in a high-risk area can expect to pay only £424 per year , so long as he has a five-year no-claims bonus . |
| 26 | Liverpool get a penalty — ‘ suprise suprise ’ ( especially as they had a pen against them during the week , one of very few no doubt ) . |
| 27 | For him , the trend represents a contradiction of the growing pressure to make greater use of non-executive directors especially as it requires a far heavier burden of detailed knowledge of company 's activities from what are still essentially part-timers . |
| 28 | I 'm afraid I ca n't subscribe to the theory that man should always be ‘ bloody , bold and resolute ’ ; but rather , I confess , that it 's very comforting to lean on you sometimes … more especially as I 've a funny instinct that if I follow your ways I ca n't go wrong , whereas my own existence is apt to be hardening , as you can see that it must be . |
| 29 | Another thing is that he himself might not be able to afford to send her the money , especially as he has a young family . ’ |
| 30 | Obviously as you get a little bit closer to it it gets rather more fraught . |