Example sentences of "[adv] as this [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , so long as this land contains a politically-aware football manager , Mrs T will not be forgotten . |
| 2 | Christians must have difficulty in using the bible to speak to contemporary issues so long as this belief persists . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'm going to live for as long as this forest remains standing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Choose a character who is central to the story , and pause as soon as this character appears on the screen . |
| 7 | However , as soon as this female lays her eggs the male deserts her , leaving her to rear this brood by herself . |
| 8 | You and your mutt can rot and die as soon as this arrangement stops being worthwhile for me . ’ |
| 9 | Joseph said to Merlyn : ‘ We 'll go just as soon as this weather lets up . |
| 10 | Okay and I 'll talk to your insurance company as soon as this letter comes through , hopefully |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In so far as this decision approves a requirement made under section 7(4) to provide a specimen of blood simpliciter , without making any reference to the alternative of urine , it has been effectively overruled by later cases and I shall defer further consideration of it until I come to those cases . |
| 13 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |
| 14 | Structuralism , he says , is ‘ a certain mode of analysis of cultural artefacts , in so far as this mode originates in the methods of contemporary linguistics ’ ( 1970 : 412 ) . |
| 15 | VISITING LADY : Well , Mistress Pamela , I ca n't say I like you so well as this lady does for I should never care , if you were my servant , to have you and your master in the same house together . |
| 16 | Even as this problem forms itself in my head it is superseded by its very simple and obvious solution . |
| 17 | Be that as it may , the potential advantages of long term care in a high quality private sector are considerable , particularly as this sector offers old people and their families wider choice than the public sector . |
| 18 | However , the gold standard did not always work as smoothly or effectively as this description indicates since many countries were unwilling to follow the simple rules of the game . |