Example sentences of "as [adv] as they are " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , as long as they are in my hands , I can not bring myself to destroy any more , or anything written by you . |
| 2 | The existence of a good counselling relationship will overcome such mishaps , as long as they are not too frequent or too insensitive . |
| 3 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 4 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 5 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 6 | Leaflets from different parties can be delivered at the same time as long as they are not folded together . |
| 7 | Speakers of languages like Japanese , Hungarian and Spanish , which do not have weak syllables to anything like the same extent as English does , may well find such exercises of some value ( as long as they are not overdone to the point where learners feel they have to speak English as though they were reciting verse ) . |
| 8 | Apples such as ‘ Merton Knave ’ and ‘ Laxton 's Fortune ’ are very poor keepers and should be picked and eaten as soon as they are ripe . |
| 9 | While most , for example narcissi and scillas , should be planted as soon as they are bought , tulips should not go in to the garden until November . |
| 10 | As we descend we slow down and begin to call out hazards as soon as they are seen : ‘ wires left to right 500 metres ’ , ‘ birds two o'clock ’ . |
| 11 | We have tried to present both sides of the hunting and shooting debate , and will be publishing the results of last month 's field sports questionnaire as soon as they are analysed . |
| 12 | As soon as they are formed , the 14 C atoms rapidly combine with oxygen to form carbon dioxide which is chemically indistinguishable from carbon dioxide containing either of the other carbon isotopes . |
| 13 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 14 | They may be carted as soon as they are lifted . |
| 15 | The second statutory safeguard is that copies of any intercepted material must be destroyed as soon as they are no longer required . |
| 16 | Wash soiled garments as soon as they are removed . |
| 17 | Clean soiled household linen or chairs and dispose of incontinence pads as soon as they are removed . |
| 18 | Moreover , some senior research directors are particularly chagrined by credits which are frozen as soon as they are granted . |
| 19 | But as soon as they are used to expand the production of consumer goods they will actually cause business conditions to deteriorate . |
| 20 | To many Shetlanders this is often seen to be part of a more general shortcoming on behalf of incomers — their over-riding desire to maintain the status quo in local communities as soon as they are established there . |
| 21 | Once the piglets are removed from the sow they are put in wire meshed cages decked on top of one another and , as soon as they are strong enough , are moved to concrete fattening pens , often with no straw for bedding . |
| 22 | However , the clues to the cause can lead to better ways of treating the disease as soon as they are recognised . |
| 23 | All others should be removed as soon as they are spotted . |
| 24 | The Revenue has said that , provided the final figures are sent to the inspector as soon as they are available , s 97 , TMA 1970 would ensure that the company would not be liable to a s 96 penalty unless fraud or negligence were involved . |
| 25 | As soon as they are born , she takes them into her huge jaws where they lie in pouches as she carries them back down the river . |
| 26 | The dates of these visits will be given to you as soon as they are to hand . |
| 27 | Spread over sixteen pages ( I , 56–71 ) these remarks function as part of a story , but as soon as they are put together it is a dull mind which does not reflect , ‘ Power corrupts , and absolute power corrupts absolutely ’ . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ The babies are sold on and shipped round the world as soon as they are weaned from their mothers at about a year or 18 months . |
| 29 | Another effect of the development of the hard woody stem is that , as soon as they are established , climbers drop the tendency to put up new growth from ground level ( as ramblers do ) and so pruning has to follow a different principle ( see pages 54–72 ) . |
| 30 | However , please do not hesitate to ask if you think that something is wrong — it is usually easier to rectify differences if they are brought to our attention as soon as they are discovered . |