Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His insecurity will persist so long as he bottles up change , no matter how well his ruling party behaves . |
| 2 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 3 | The older the child the longer you can wait so long as there are no other signs of serious illness . |
| 4 | You should know as well as I do the public can be a very difficult master ! ’ |
| 5 | I 'll cooperate as far as I can , on the understanding of course that I remain in control — full control — of anything to do with my project . |
| 6 | Dana did not shave as often as I did . |
| 7 | There will always be homes , local authority as well as private sector , which do not always behave as well as they should within the rules . |
| 8 | As many as possible would cluster at that end , and the stalls would thin out quickly as one went northwards away from the abbey towards the open country , with all its dangers for the peaceful trader . |
| 9 | In this case I am actually drawing with the brush and the colours will merge quite nicely as they are painted wet into wet . |
| 10 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 11 | It does not really matter so long as we accept both points of view . |
| 12 | This vagueness will not matter so long as one is clear about the level at which the formula of ‘ ought implies can ’ is being applied : thus the latter , and weaker , kind of ‘ can not ’ would be enough to provide a strong argument against the behaviour being made into a norm for a human society , but it would not be enough if the question concerned the adoption of a personal ideal in an individual case . |
| 13 | It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause . |
| 14 | ‘ When the recovery does come , we will not benefit as quickly as we should . |
| 15 | When the recovery comes we will not benefit as quickly as we should . |
| 16 | One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves . |
| 17 | We 've got ta do as well as we can and we 've got ta try and get promotion this year . |
| 18 | We 've got ta do as well as we can and we 've got ta try and get promotion this year . |
| 19 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't do as well as she 's done in the majors without being a very good player , ’ said Jim Webb , the LPGA 's deputy commissioner . |
| 21 | She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one . |
| 22 | Third , you have to believe that they can do as well as you . |
| 23 | " I am not sure I could do as well as you say in politics . |
| 24 | The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries . |
| 26 | But it does n't matter as far as we 're concerned because one side of Katrina is just as bright as the other side . |
| 27 | But undulating side-wings are not such powerful propellants as a thrashing tail , so the manta can not swim as fast as its shark cousins or rival them as hunters . |
| 28 | For several months the Hong Kong Sevens waited , hoping that the country 's two rugby bodies would unite as quickly as they had in some other sports — most notably cricket . |
| 29 | So Drummle will do well enough as my husband . |
| 30 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |