Example sentences of "as [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ministry of propaganda did what it could to play down such disasters and tried for as long as possible to preserve the illusion that they were not important , but Fascism now began to lose a lot of its popular support . |
| 2 | Many think that such profits will continue as long as big borrowers run the government . |
| 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 | As soon as first lot pulled out that morning , she sensed that something had changed . |
| 5 | As soon as deaf and dumb children were recognised as capable of benefiting from secular and religious teaching , their rescue from degradation and the saving of their souls became objects ranking high in the scale of Victorian values . |
| 6 | But again this statement was problematised as soon as specific conditions of production and national/cultural traditions were brought into play . |
| 7 | Labour 's defeat led Neil Kinnock on April 13 to announce that he would resign as party leader as soon as practicable ; Roy Hattersley would also stand down as deputy leader . |
| 8 | As soon as one patch of vegetables is cleared , the soil is revitalised with compost and a handful of organic fertiliser and lightly pricked over before replanting . |
| 9 | In this business , as soon as one meal is complete there is a need to start on the next , and the ACC chefs of the battalion , lunch behind them , had now to prepare for the functions to be held that evening in the Officers ' , and Warrant Officers ' and Sergeants ' Messes for 180 and 350 people respectively . |
| 10 | As soon as one of the adults goes for the paper , we 'll send in a Trojan Horse . |
| 11 | Recurrent attacks are common and may follow on as soon as one week after the end of the primary attack . |
| 12 | Rather like the painting of Blackpool Tower , as soon as one end is finished work starts at the other ! |
| 13 | As soon as one or more candidates were judged plausible , processing of that anaphor was suspended . |
| 14 | It also contributes to debtors ' sense of hopelessness , because as soon as one crisis is sorted out , another hits them . |
| 15 | An enthusiastic committee is vital as the work goes on throughout the year , starting again as soon as one event is over . |
| 16 | After D10 rounds or as soon as one of their number is reduced to 1 Wound ( whichever comes first ) , the Carrion will fly off , this time cawing loudly . |
| 17 | This room appears to be bare and innocuous , with a door to the south , but as soon as one character steps through the east-facing door , all the adventurers find themselves drawn into the Bonefield . |
| 18 | As soon as one of my clients looks like winning anything important , he 's after him . |
| 19 | There can be no transfer of any surplus , for as soon as one candidate has more than 50% of the votes he is declared elected . |
| 20 | As soon as one person 's work has been built into the computer , it stays there and goes on working for as long as needed . |
| 21 | As soon as one set of questions were on the way to being answered , others seemed to take their place . |
| 22 | And was it continual like , as soon as one lorry drove away did you get an empty in ? |
| 23 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 24 | As soon as one of their attacks is stopped and we can build on an attack of our own ! ( good for the nerves with our defence ! ) |
| 25 | But this does not alter the fact that psychoanalysis therefore repeats the same masculine ‘ Empire of the Selfsame ’ , and that as soon as such descriptions become institutionalized — as a structure of knowledge , or as psychoanalytic practice — then they become agents of the system they describe . |
| 26 | As soon as such heterogeneity enters into a polymer chain , information technology becomes a theoretical possibility . |
| 27 | Clearly , governments should take this feature of human nature into consideration when formulating tax plans , for it is a sad fact of fiscal life that as soon as new tax is devised an army of tax-avoidance experts is assembled : Though helpful to the few , they are counter-productive for the country as a whole . |
| 28 | They usually come in until the day they have their baby , and most come back again very early , as soon as two weeks . |
| 29 | Chaot had reportedly been nursing a damaged rudder stock for some time , but as water was coming into the boat in increasing quantities , Boschmann decided to abandon ship as soon as other yachts on passage to the Caribbean could come to his assistance . |
| 30 | Rationing and controls in general were not regarded by the public as desirable elements in planning for a better Britain but as irksome and restrictive consequences of the war which should be got rid of as soon as better times allowed . |