Example sentences of "as [adv] as it " in BNC.
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1 | But America will be right to say no , as long as it has worries about its own inflation . |
2 | Any one of us may also apprehend an individual whom we know to be , or whom we have reasonable grounds for suspecting to be , guilty of such an offence as long as it has been committed . |
3 | As long as it was a boy . |
4 | Look , you stay here and I 'll be back as soon as it 's over . |
5 | At the start of the cross wind take-off apply full rudder in anticipation of the swing into wind , and then reduce it as soon as it becomes effective . |
6 | However , as soon as it begins to accelerate smoothly , that movement is no longer necessary , and the control should be moved to get the glider balanced nicely on to the main wheel . |
7 | The new ball was taken as soon as it was available , and entrusted to Lewis . |
8 | It appears the US policy was to assist the coup if it appeared likely to succeed ; but to back away as soon as it seemed doomed to fail . |
9 | Just as soon as it is safe to do so but not before . |
10 | You stand against everything I tell her , obstinately and in her hearing , you give me no support , but as soon as it 's convenient to you , you pack her off back downstairs . ’ |
11 | ‘ The judge agreed to sign a warrant for Thom 's arrest as soon as it was clear he 'd left the country with Eva . ’ |
12 | As soon as it was bright enough , he took out notepaper and wrote two letters — one to Arty and one to Lily . |
13 | When Eberhard Bethge produced Bonhoeffer 's volumes of papers , lectures and letters in a series of Collected Works in German , Hartwell saw to it that I reviewed each volume in The Bridge as soon as it arrived . |
14 | It set up its computer division in 1984 , as soon as it was allowed to . |
15 | As soon as it was light , I crept out of the room and went downstairs for a coffee at a nearby café . |
16 | Unsurprisingly , as soon as it opened in April , the Tribeca Bar and Grill became the hottest meal ticket in town , and it 's currently packed out nightly , with a selection of celebs , wannabes , Wall Street suits and star gazers , who can get a perfect view by sitting at the restaurant 's centrepiece , a $15,000 mahogany bar . |
17 | If I speak out loud my breath hangs in the candle-light , just as though one could snap off a word in a mistily solidified lump as soon as it has been said . |
18 | There were recluses in this age , like St Romuald who resigned the archbishopric of Ravenna almost as soon as it had been thrust upon him by Otto III in order to lead a life of private prayer and asceticism . |
19 | Pondering on , I wondered how Ireland could be prevented from copying every harmful change in English life as soon as it occurred . |
20 | One after another they stepped up and gripped the stump of chalk which snapped in their fingers as soon as it was pressed to the board , sputtered and crumbled when they tried to move it , or let out a squeak to turn the teeth round in your gums . |
21 | It was one he could easily have missed but as soon as it went in , any nerves were dispelled . |
22 | ‘ We can tell very quickly what 's happening , so we can tackle the problem as soon as it arises rather than using a pesticide until it fails . |
23 | The cannery was abandoned almost as soon as it was built . |
24 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
25 | There were a number of aspects of the abuse that bothered Enid , particularly that she ‘ should ’ have played the whole situation differently , telling her mother about her father as soon as it started . |
26 | As soon as it is over and both males are exhausted they have a brief opportunity during which they can launch an attack and win the harem from both of them , and this has been seen to happen . |
27 | As soon as it was discovered , there was immediate action by the Department of the Environment . |
28 | And I go to bed as soon as it gets dark . |
29 | David Beaton poulticed it every time he could get the old man to stay at peace long enough , but as soon as it started to heal Eachuinn would be up and about , restless , until the deep puncture festered and broke out again . |
30 | The school-leaving age — without the exceptions opposed in 1936 by the Local Education Authorities , the National Union of Teachers , Harold Macmillan , Walter Citrine of the TUC , and ( of course ) William Temple — was to be raised to fifteen on 1 April 1947 , and to sixteen as soon as it became practicable ( which , in the event , was not until I had completed my teaching career in secondary schools ) . |