Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What an international perspective can add is a sense of the contradictions or points of stress in the new structures : the attempt to shift the whole system by floods of detailed description and prescription and the consequent overloading of channels of communication ; the preoccupation with assessment to the point where it may overwhelm the teaching ; the ambivalent character of statutory syllabuses as being at once central regulation and individual entitlement ; the potentially disruptive and anomalous role of governing bodies which may act simply as local guardians of centrally determined norms , but may also be educated to accept more subtle and flexible views of what schools can and should do , and may develop the political clout to do something about it . |
| 2 | This was McConnochie 's third success in his career and he gave a hint that there may be more to come in the Hennessy at Newbury on Saturday , saying : ‘ Gala 's Image should run well as long as the ground is not sticky . ’ |
| 3 | If companies have to pay much , they may carry on as usual , and the cost of repairing the drains may exceed the revenue that charges bring . |
| 4 | I 'll keep on as long as I can . |
| 5 | Moreover , they 'll sleep anywhere as long as they 're warm and comfortable . |
| 6 | She 'll hold off as long as she can ; we wo n't get much of a view , and they are saying shore batteries could n't do her much damage . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I remember one day , there was an awful row and a crowd gathered and Mary Jane Worty said : ‘ I 'll come down as long as that young PC there takes me into Argyle Street Bridewell . ’ |
| 8 | This is the great hall and I could spend easily as long as I 've already spent on on this hall but I wo n't . |
| 9 | A junior Defence Minister attempted to explain that a bomb might easily be planted in a barracks : ‘ Anyone could walk in as long as they were carrying a package which did not look suspicious . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He means , ’ said Rita , slowly , in her loud classroom voice , ‘ anyone could walk in as long as he or she were not carrying a package that did look suspicious . ’ |
| 11 | The second reading debate then dealt with the principle of the measure and could go on as long as members wished to speak , the government soon sensing whether it could proceed or whether modifications were needed . |
| 12 | But they know prices on the day of the auction could go anywhere as ordinary members of the public bid for a piece of Maxwell notoriety . |
| 13 | However , record contracts tend to last longer than management agreements ( a management agreement might last for three years while a record contract may go on as long as ten ) . |
| 14 | His name was written on my heart , and would stay there as long as I lived . |
| 15 | He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to . |
| 16 | I shall go on as long as you do , Dr Neil . ’ |
| 17 | However , the natives , who had known yasak , or alman , before the Russians arrived on the scene , and regarded it as a payment by a vanquished people to its conqueror , in the time-honoured manner would pay only as long as it suited them . |
| 18 | All I was really clear about was that this time I would go on as long as my lungs and muscles would function . |
| 19 | Normal life would go on as usual if people accepted him as heir to the French crown . |
| 20 | I have sufficient intellectual control so that my bats only last about three days — his would last sometimes as long as three weeks . |
| 21 | It is the last bastion against all these evils , and will remain so as long as it keeps acquiring books it does not have when they are found and brought to it . |
| 22 | The chances of the new entrant will improve slightly as new chambers are opened — by conversion from residences in the Temple , or in Gray 's Inn , or outside the ancient purlieus of the law . |
| 23 | The private sector collects around 60% of household rubbish in France , barely 5% in Britain , though that figure will grow fast as local authorities are forced to seek competitive outside tenders . |
| 24 | We will report further as necessary . |
| 25 | Yes , as you say , wherever you end up , whatever happens , I presume your long track will go ahead as usual ? |
| 26 | Will my right hon. Friend take no lectures from the Labour party on short-termism , as its short-term policies will last only as long as the election and change for every by-election — |
| 27 | ‘ You can stay here as long as you like , even though you have deprived me of my oldest friend . ’ |
| 28 | The Independent Broadcasting Authority has said that groups can team up as long as they have no more than 25 per cent of the total independent television advertising market . |
| 29 | The detectors can work only as long as the system is cooled , and the low boil-off rate of the helium coolant on board means the mission will last at least 300 days . |
| 30 | As well as starch , carbohydrate can occur naturally as simple sugars . |