Example sentences of "as it [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As many times as it took to kill . |
| 2 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 3 | ‘ Five minutes — as long as it took to accept that it was a fact of life and then find my lawyer 's phone number . ' ’ |
| 4 | Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ? |
| 5 | It lasted as long as it took to bring her breathing back under control . |
| 6 | It is now six months since the report was handed in to the Department of Industry — as long as it took to prepare the report in the first place . |
| 7 | He said the RA expected it to be long campaign but were prepared to give it as long as it took to secure their aims . |
| 8 | He said the atmosphere at each gathering had been one of calm , loving concern , and this would continue for as long as it took to get the children home . |
| 9 | ‘ Again , I lived with Mike for as long as it took to get the divorce and then I arranged the wedding . |
| 10 | Only just as long as it took to get a licence . ’ |
| 11 | Well theoretically I would wait as long as it took to wash the mess off the roof . |
| 12 | Awareness of the possible truth of paradox is a most helpful way in to appreciating the nature of religious language as it wrestles to express experience . |
| 13 | 1992 was a particularly difficult and frustrating year on the whole for the management business as it struggled to replace the loss of business from the private commercial sector , the mainstay in the past , and re-orientate its services to the public sector . |
| 14 | It dragged their small boat for several miles and as it struggled to get free it spat out a human torso , some pieces of wetsuit and a face mask . |
| 15 | Once one of the world 's most profitable firms , Big Blue last year tumbled to a record-breaking $1 billion loss as it struggled to keep up with technical change , plummeting prices and a wave of new competition in the computer market . |
| 16 | He stressed , however , that Pakistan had no intention of producing a bomb as it wished to concentrate on economic development . |
| 17 | Humanity is n't as sacred as it likes to think . |
| 18 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 19 | The fact that unsatisfied demand is itself a complex and unresolved problem for librarians does not diminish the problem as it relates to stock logistics . |
| 20 | We will not follow Gassendi in much of this , but it will be of interest to note what he says in so far as it relates to experience . |
| 21 | This leads me to analyse political behaviour , especially as it relates to conflict . |
| 22 | Ending the decades-long full employment tradition , IBM Corp on Tuesday formally laid off 1,400 employees at its Kingston and Poughkeepsie , New York mainframe plants , as it continued to notify workers of layoffs at its East Fishkill plant , where 4,000 jobs are to be cut in a combination of layoffs , transfers and voluntary redundancy by May 31 . |
| 23 | It used to be said that the Labour Party was a ‘ broad church ’ , as it managed to contain such a wide range of opinion . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , splits in the Cabinet are rumoured as it meets to discuss next year 's Government spending programme . |
| 25 | As it goes to do so , the bug stabs it with its dagger-shaped mouth-parts . |
| 26 | As a method of thought it is important as it helps to prevent had ideas or decisions from being implemented . |
| 27 | An island divides the canal as it prepared to turn onto its most dramatic section , the kilometre long embankment which runs high across the Tame Valley , now accompanied by the Midland Links motorway , the triangle where the end of the M5 meets the M6 , a unique canal environment . |
| 28 | THE breakaway Yugoslavian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina sank deeper into bloodshed and turmoil yesterday as it prepared to receive recognition as an independent state by the European Community . |
| 29 | And there was also an opportunity for Aberdeen and the surrounding region to look to its future as it prepared to host the next Offshore Europe in 1995 . |
| 30 | However , insofar as it purports to strengthen that belief , the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act is to be welcomed . |