Example sentences of "as [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You think to yourself now what am I giving , what am I giving in the contribution box now as compared to one , two , three , four , five , years ago , it may be the same and it may be as much as you can afford , well if that 's so , then that 's grand is n't it ? |
| 2 | As long as its concern ( in the absence of a vision ) is for ‘ maintaining the ethos of Anglicanism ’ , it is doomed to grow old and cold and to die . |
| 3 | Or again , for the ruling class or race against which such a movement rebels , as long as its authority is secure there are very strong practical advantages in thinking of its subjects as incapable of governing themselves , happy and carefree in their poverty , innately inferior in intelligence , out of work only if lazy , loyal and grateful for all one has done for them unless misled by irresponsible agitators ; it is only when they start to be dangerously restive that it becomes practically useful to understand their motives and capacities better . |
| 4 | As long as nothing happens nothing will happen — okay ? |
| 5 | Father dismissed all this as typical South American ferment , and believed that all would be well as long as we sang a hymn before breakfast . |
| 6 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
| 7 | But , as long as they are in my hands , I can not bring myself to destroy any more , or anything written by you . |
| 8 | It 's the same with interest rates ; as long as they stay within a relatively narrow band , we can plan ahead . |
| 9 | The existence of a good counselling relationship will overcome such mishaps , as long as they are not too frequent or too insensitive . |
| 10 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 11 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 12 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 13 | She says they treat all patients they same , as long as they pay . |
| 14 | Leaflets from different parties can be delivered at the same time as long as they are not folded together . |
| 15 | Speakers of languages like Japanese , Hungarian and Spanish , which do not have weak syllables to anything like the same extent as English does , may well find such exercises of some value ( as long as they are not overdone to the point where learners feel they have to speak English as though they were reciting verse ) . |
| 16 | She is now reasonably well as long as she is at home , but car journeys and other people 's houses usually bring her symptoms on again . |
| 17 | But , if the material is commonplace , there would be nothing to stop an ex-employee deriving the same or similar material again as long as he did not simply copy his employer 's material . |
| 18 | Although you are changing colour every two rows , usually as long as long as you are changing between just two of your colours , the card is n't marked . |
| 19 | Use a strip of knitting as long as you want for your finished garland , sewn as you go so that you have a covered cone , about six inches of knitting unsewn , another cone — as long as long as you want your garland to be . |
| 20 | Fred , I know you think you will never understand such things as long as you live . |
| 21 | But America will be right to say no , as long as it has worries about its own inflation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As long as it was a boy . |
| 24 | Er medically , as best as I understand what the doctors tell me , er I 'm er fine to carry the responsibilities and strain of er the cabinet job that I had . |
| 25 | As Gabriel worked on the top of the ricks , he suddenly remembered that , eight months before , he had been fighting against fire in the same place as desperately as he was fighting against water now — and for love of the same woman , who did not love him . |
| 26 | It 's true we were acquainted , with the result that I discovered the imposture as soon as her doppelgänger arrived . |
| 27 | As soon as something happens , woof you 're there . |
| 28 | They buy only records on import from Outer Mongolia and stop playing them as soon as everyone else does ; they refuse to watch films without foreign subtitles , never read hardbacks , and will not enter a club if the general public can also get in . |
| 29 | Zak 's long scene began with impressive fireworks as soon as everyone in the dining car had been served with a drink . |
| 30 | Too much exclaiming and protesting would have aroused a degree of doubt as to his sincerity , but Herluin clearly felt that here was nothing worse than some confused stupidity among too many helpers in too much panic and haste , and what was lost would be found as soon as everyone calmed down and halted the hunt for a while to take thought . |