Example sentences of "as [adv] as [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 So do n't write off the ‘ old country ’ yet Amanda it is n't doing as badly as it thinks .
2 If at the end of the eight week period since completion , debts remained unpaid , the vendor should have the right to buy back [ at an agreed discount ] the debts which it may then seek to enforce ( as vigorously as it wishes ) in order to seek payment .
3 But the process does n't work ( that is , accord with our intuitions ) anything like as powerfully as it does in music .
4 Thus , this lens allows the patient to view a stimulus for as long as s/he desires while also enabling the investigator to present the stimulus to one hemisphere alone .
5 Thus , this lens allows the patient to view a stimulus for as long as s/he desires while also enabling the investigator to present the stimulus to one hemisphere alone .
6 Maximum clarity , he wrote , for as long as it takes .
7 Immediate first aid for a bleeding nose is to tilt the head back and pinch the nostrils together for as long as it takes .
8 The compensation deal will cost the government an estimated A$100m and involves Canberra waiving airport landing charges for as long as it takes the airlines to recoup their losses from keeping about 21,000 non-pilot employees on their staff during the dispute .
9 A spokesman said the seven Kurds released from Haslar detention centre , near Gosport , Hampshire , and all 18 from Gloucester Prison were given temporary admission ‘ for as long as it takes to assess their cases ’ .
10 The White House spokesman , Mr Marlin Fitzwater , said yesterday that the troops would stay for ‘ as long as it takes , ’ while a subdued Defence Secretary , Mr Dick Cheney , added : ‘ Within the next few weeks we 'll be able to meet the objectives . ’
11 With its inflation still rising , the country on the verge of a perilous wage-price spiral and public finances deeply in the red , the Bundesbank has made it clear that it will keep the German economy locked in a vice of high interest rates for as long as it takes to squeeze out inflation .
12 In extremely dry periods , the lungfish of Africa just bury themselves in the mud at the bottom of their temporary ponds , and wait for as long as it takes until it rains again .
13 We just use whatever plane we can for as long as it takes : Singapore in eight hours of helicopter flight , Egypt in 50 .
14 They had little alternative but to stay there ‘ for as long as it takes ’ .
15 For the next few days — for as long as it takes — you just continue your life as though nothing has happened .
16 Then freeze it for as long as it takes .
17 And it 's my intention to keep up this analysis , er , for as long as it takes , probably to the end of my life .
18 ‘ That done , ’ he went on determinedly , ‘ and for as long as it takes for him to get you out of his system , you will be my girlfriend .
19 I 'll carry on for as long as it takes .
20 One young man said he was told in an interview at the company 's Middlesbrough office : ‘ Be prepared to sit in someone 's house for as long as it takes .
21 The heating is switched on only for as long as it takes to dry the washing .
22 He said that was last Friday , oh I said I was filling my timesheet in and my expense sheet , not that long , I said well it takes as long as it takes do n't it ?
23 ‘ Men who are rappers have to be sexist or they 're gon na lose their credibility , so they 're gon na continue to dis women for as long as it proves their manhood .
24 In TRACE II , a parallel architecture is employed in which each of the nodes is a relatively simple processing element which continues to send activation and inhibition to other nodes for as long as it remains active .
25 The silence may not last — but for as long as it does , the government has a chance to strengthen France 's macroeconomic foundations .
26 It takes as long as it does for a dog to douse a tree trunk .
27 We did n't expect it to last as long as it has , and were hoping for some relief by the end of the year .
28 Keep cutting the grass for as long as it grows vigorously .
29 Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be .
30 There is , indeed , a much less rigid distinction between working and non-working hours , for with easier accessibility between home and workplace the farm worker tends to be involved in the job for as long as it demands , rather than working to any set hours .
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