Example sentences of "so [adv] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew each other before the Expo , though not quite so intimately as now . ’ |
| 2 | It was a favourite gambit of his and I had been caught before ; but never so successfully as now . |
| 3 | How sad to see our old people not just robbed but beaten up so badly as well . |
| 4 | It is an institution which until recently my fellow countrymen valued so highly as willingly to pay any price needful for its preservation . |
| 5 | ( Incidentally , most bureau will buy in typefaces for clients so long as either the client pays for it or there is going to be sufficient volume of work to justify it . ) |
| 6 | His letter says that : ‘ So long as neither the lives of American citizens nor our troops are subjected to immediate danger and the international economic embargo continues to exert substantial pressure against Iraq … offensive military action by the United States unwisely risks massive loss of life . ’ |
| 7 | His concern in this text seems to be to explain which legal relationships are like sale : his list comprises receipt as a consequence of barter , of payment , of settlement ( in court ) , and of contractual promise ( so long as not gratuitous ) . |
| 8 | He flung the bedclothes back but not nearly so purposefully as heretofore , and he stayed on his back beside Clarissa who begged him not to go shouting just for once , because that was what the gramophone girl wanted , did n't he see ? |
| 9 | At an informal level officers and councillors meet frequently at civic functions , receptions and so forth as well as before and after official meetings , and this too , serves to blur the formal relationship between them . |
| 10 | Still sobbing , but not so wretchedly as before , the boy raised his right arm . |
| 11 | Human beings have never touched me so nearly as now when ‘ Nature ’ was so close : I think , too , I never before struck such firm roots into human hearts ’ . |
| 12 | I suppose I 'm feeling slightly sceptical about the situation , but if you ask me as blankly as that of course my immediate reaction , my old reaction would be ‘ but of course I feel confident about the future of British music ’ , you know , in my more sceptical mood now I still would say ‘ yes ’ , but not quite so enthusiastically as before . |
| 13 | In regard to smells resulting from the transportation of manure it seems to me that , irrespective of the methods employed , the necessary journeys would occur so infrequently as not to be unduly detrimental to the residential amenities which nearby residents in this rural community could reasonably be expected to enjoy . ’ |
| 14 | Well , that seems to be everything so far as tomorrow is concerned . |
| 15 | So far as tomorrow 's game at Celtic Park is concerned , Rangers ' Goram , Gough and Steven all came through the midweek Champions League match without further mishap , and will play . |
| 16 | In terms of the land which is lost and will it be counted , er I would agree with David Allenby , in so in so far as where small sites are lost , they are in fact largely taken up in past land-take trends , but when a major site is lost , that at the moment forms part of the ninety one base of employment , and it it is something that we would n't have anticipated , therefore I think in terms of when we look at land availability figures and availability of supply erm we would have to look very carefully at land which is lost or significant land which is lost , or a significant number of jobs , it would n't necessary be added onto the structure plan requirement , but it could be deducted from the land availa land availability figures as land lost . |
| 17 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 18 | The excess of the cost of acquisition over the net assets attributed , so far as not previously written off , is written off to reserves . |
| 19 | erm So therefore , we 're embarking on a new area if you like , in so far as not just sponsorship , but erm willingness to participate in a friendly environment , and I would hope that we can be part of that . |
| 20 | This was rejected by the court , which refused to read the words , so far as reasonably practical , into the statute . |
| 21 | Section 6 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 imposes liabilities on those who supply equipment for use at work to ensure that it is " so far as reasonably practicable … safe and without risks to health when properly used " . |
| 22 | Where the Buyer intends to use the goods at work , the Seller supplies the goods on the basis that the Buyer will ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the goods will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , and that prior to delivery the Buyer will sign and return the written undertaking attached hereto as Annex A obliging the Buyer to take the steps specified in that undertaking to ensure this . |
| 23 | Where the Buyer purchases the goods with the intention of selling them to a third party for the use by that third party of the goods at work , the Buyer undertakes to supply the goods to the third party on the basis that the third party will ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the goods will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , and the Buyer further undertakes to procure the signature by the third party ( prior to delivery of the goods to the third party ) of the written undertaking attached hereto as Annex A obliging the third party to take the steps specified in that undertaking to ensure this . |
| 24 | Act 1974 , I/we [ ] of [ ] having agreed to purchase [ ] ( " the Article " ) for use at work , hereby undertake in accordance with the above Section that I/we will implement the Specified Steps as set out below in order to ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the Article will be safe and without risks to health when properly so used . |
| 25 | That is the problem erm in so far as initially er we felt that it that that the onus would be on the individual , I E if it 's a short term stay car park they would not use it . |
| 26 | A second line of argument is to see the picture painted so far as too static . |
| 27 | I do n't think it 's really a question of public schools , except in so far as so many public schools are all boys . |
| 28 | In what has been described , we have moved from a model of a community in which neighbourly acts were performed within clearly defined limits , with reciprocal benefits looming large , to a model in which , so far as very old people are concerned , such acts are more often the product of altruism ( remembering that this does not deny gratification to the giver ) and of a more systematic attempt to offer and channel care appropriately . |
| 29 | Whether any alternative leadership could have gone further in this direction in the 1960s and 1970s is an open question , but I have argued that it is not useful to conceive of the record so far as merely one of ‘ betrayal ’ . |
| 30 | Arafat , speaking on the PLO Voice of Palestine radio from the Yemen capital of San'aa on July 10 , dismissed the dialogue so far as merely " a contact between two ambassadors , nothing more , nothing less " , and accused the US side of suspending these contacts at Israel 's request . |