Example sentences of "as [adj] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 5% of user 's time , he claims , is spent in such tasks as backing up a network , and such factors end up costing as much as the original system itself . |
| 2 | But as long as the finished beer is left to brew naturally and is free from such unnatural processes as chilling , filtering and pasteurisation , the end result is traditional draught beer , known in the industry as ‘ cask conditioned beer ’ and more popularly as … real ale . |
| 3 | The effective wind-speed is reduced by the movement down wind and , as long as the tail is not held down , this is safer and easier than turning the glider right round . |
| 4 | Every glider pilot should make at least one downwind landing during training in order to realise that there is no particular problem in making a safe landing as long as the wind is not very strong . |
| 5 | They are to serve as long as the war lasts , and a month on top of that , they are to serve in Scotland only ’ — someone cheered — ‘ or so it says , and you can ask Widow McCulloch , or Widow McGregor , if they have heard that anywhere before . |
| 6 | The blade , which is something like a large jigsaw blade , protrudes from the front of the saw to give a cutting capacity of 150mmin wood and 12mm in steel , as long as the correct blade is fitted . |
| 7 | At the Bull & Gate , next door to the Town & Country Club in London 's Kentish Town , the management has been promoting pub rock in a back room with adjoining outer bar for almost as long as the form has existed . |
| 8 | I have reached a stage where I can watch television , as long as the programme does n't require too much attention , and knit at the same time . ’ |
| 9 | As long as the economy continues to grow , the political risks for President Bush are minimal . |
| 10 | As long as the latter enjoys only modest powers , the election of its members will not be taken with full seriousness . |
| 11 | As long as the balance of payments remained boosted by North Sea oil and the pattern of growth continued , so Britain 's international credibility would continue to grow . |
| 12 | As long as the volume of work undertaken by house-building firms is dependent either upon local authority contracts or upon the doling out at yearly or half-yearly intervals of a meagre number of individual licences , so long will increased productivity , and the gearing to it of the output of the building materials industry , be impossible . |
| 13 | As long as the public is not prevented from choosing one thing in preference to another , people will express their choice by what they are prepared to pay for the one compared with the other . |
| 14 | This is fine as long as the music stands up to scrutiny . |
| 15 | Monetarists argued that as long as the government refused to increase the money supply , even if unemployment was increasing , there could be no inflation . |
| 16 | But a marriage could be smooth and peaceful , and many were , as long as the man carried out his duties towards his wife and a woman was submissive to her husband . |
| 17 | ‘ There is n't a problem between a hairdresser and his client as long as the hairdresser can listen , understand and interpret what the client is saying . |
| 18 | This was McConnochie 's third success in his career and he gave a hint that there may be more to come in the Hennessy at Newbury on Saturday , saying : ‘ Gala 's Image should run well as long as the ground is not sticky . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Mathew claims that as long as the temporary grant is allowed to remain — in breach of statute — anyone who makes a will is similarly vulnerable . |
| 20 | The rights and wrongs of the Suez débâcle will be debated as long as the history of the mid-twentieth century has any relevance in world affairs . |
| 21 | Computer programs can take care of the mathematics , as long as the designer tells them what shape he wants . |
| 22 | For companies , the private work-out is better — as long as the claims that have to be reorganised are not too complicated . |
| 23 | As long as the pattern lasts . |
| 24 | The Lucullan excesses which Hefner promised were all in the mind , at any rate as long as the Fifties lasted . |
| 25 | This would be here as long as the world , Mungo thought . |
| 26 | This is a particularly convenient method for large houseplants , or a group of small specimens , providing ample humidity as long as the peat is kept constantly moist . |
| 27 | ‘ As long as the low temperatures continue , we are happy that the avalanche danger is contained , ’ added Dr Buser . |
| 28 | Mrs Aquino , who believes Mr Marcos ordered the 1983 murder of her husband , Benigno , says the homecoming can go ahead as long as the coffin is flown direct to Laoag in the heart of the Marcos fiefdom in North Luzon province . |
| 29 | ‘ The US economic recovery is well on its way , as long as the Fed makes sure that the money supply grows at an appropriate pace , ’ said Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady . |
| 30 | The same ought to hold true for a disk drive or whatever , as long as the chassis into which it plugs remains the same . |