Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was slightly damp not in patches but all over as if it had been soaked in water then wrung out and left to dry through the night . |
| 2 | Some expensive mistakes may be made but less so as , with regular monitoring and evaluation . |
| 3 | I like to think I can do what she does , but perhaps not as well . |
| 4 | A recession would cut back London 's traffic but so long as the economy keeps growing , the result will be more cars , more traffic and more pollution . |
| 5 | ‘ But so long as the system remains as it is , those who choose to disregard their obligations must realise they may face a fine . ’ |
| 6 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 7 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 8 | ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them . |
| 9 | Coleridge was the first to recognize that ‘ Freshmen always begin very furiously ’ ; but so long as Middleton was at hand to guide and encourage , he overcame the weakness of will and habit of procrastination which were always ready to disable him . |
| 10 | It can bolt it or it can corner but so long as the muzzle is in place it can not kill . |
| 11 | But so long as winning elections is seen as a mere matter of tweaking a market image , or of changing a brand title or logo , the whole enterprise is doomed to failure . |
| 12 | I do n't know , but so long as I can cure the disease I do n't much care ! |
| 13 | Many knitters worry about damaging their machines if they break the rules , but so long as you allow the machine to guide you , you should n't damage it . |
| 14 | But so long as these terms and conditions are reasonable , you 'll have to stick to them if you 're buying for a business ; as an individual buyer you can ignore such distractions and fall back on your statutory rights . |
| 15 | Hodge did not deem Rhee essential to a future government but so long as he remained one of the few nationally known leaders , his cooperation was required . |
| 16 | But so long as millionaires , or their corporate equivalents , are the only ones who can readily own newspapers or television companies , it is certain that the media will not accurately reflect either the range or the balance of opinions , ideas and beliefs within society , and consequently that there can not be a properly balanced and open debate on political issues within society . |
| 17 | But so long as there remain others where realism seems compelling , in those the sceptic 's challenge bites . |
| 18 | But so long as the three conditions expressed in the speech of my noble and learned friend are understood and observed , I do not , for my part , consider that the relaxation of the rule which he has proposed will lead to any significant increase in the cost of litigation or in the burden of research required to be undertaken by legal advisers . |
| 19 | But so long as the company 's objective is maximum profits , a concern with the welfare of third parties is necessarily an instrumental one : it is a means of protecting profitability in the long term . |
| 20 | But so long as the distinction remains , disaffection in so far as it appeals to existing principles of legitimacy , can be both conservative and loyal . |
| 21 | These are generally considered unsuitable for modern treatment of the mentally ill , but so long as demand for beds is high it is difficult to do more than try to upgrade and improve them . |
| 22 | But so long as the tribunal decides the question assigned to it by the law , its relative opinion will bind , subject to appeal . |
| 23 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 24 | Well , it 's all Greek to me , but so long as it keeps him happy . ’ |
| 25 | But so long as no resources used in ‘ selling ’ or in producing are owned monopolistically , we are forced to conclude that this activity is essentially competitive and can not result in any kind of monopolistic control over production or any impairment of the competitive process . |
| 26 | Its drawbacks were obvious , but so long as the tsar sought noble acquiescence in reform it probably represented the only sort of emancipation which had a chance of reaching the statute book . |
| 27 | They want rearing and all that , they want to rear you see but so long as you get them settled and stand on them do anything , keep them down . |
| 28 | The other powers did n't like it — they wanted Britain to get out of Egypt — but so long as the fiction could be maintained that the British were there at the express request of the Egyptian sovereign , there was not much they could do about it . |
| 29 | Its distribution in space becomes more and more contorted by the velocity fluctuations , but so long as molecular diffusion plays no role , the marked fluid is always just the same fluid . |
| 30 | ‘ The game against Marseille will now be a battle but so long as we have someone like Andy Goram behind us , we feel solid . |