Example sentences of "long as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as no individual is forced to work and no shop is forced to open , it must be right to change the law so people can do their shopping when they wish . |
| 2 | It may be a reason why the law should be altered by statute ; it does not prevent it from being law , or affect its operation , as long as no alteration in the law is made by statute . |
| 3 | It is these internally generated or endogenous components , lasting sometimes as long as a second after the triggering stimulus , which offer the most potential for investigating mental activities . |
| 4 | The government feels it can rely on er auditors to protect the interests of share holders and the creditors and the other stake holders but I have to tell the minister that that reliance which is now er strengthened by the regulations b by the er the order today has always proved er inadequate in the er in in the past er because poor auditing practices always get covered up , there 's no way for anybody to know how bad or how good er the audit is as long as a company er survives and we have n't developed in this country , the proper institutional framework to regulate auditors er effectively and to actually make them er er accountable . |
| 5 | His cock felt as hard and as long as a barber 's pole , as he held it in his fist and ground the round , blunt tip against her tender haven . |
| 6 | This , while nowhere near as long as a hummingbird 's tongue , is quite long enough from this position to burgle the nectaries . |
| 7 | In one boot was thrust a riding crop , unusual in that it was as long as a spear and tipped with tiny steel barbs . |
| 8 | However , as long as a system can recognize that this use of ‘ in the hand ’ implies that the hand is part of ‘ him ’ , it can avoid this kind of reasoning altogether and adopt a constraint propagation method to resolve both pronouns . |
| 9 | There is a kind of corporate responsibility , and as long as a government is just it is a citizen 's duty to support it , but when the actions or a government hurt the individual and harm the nation it is the duty of a citizen to withdraw his support . |
| 10 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 11 | It now seems that Britain 's upturn started as long as a year ago . |
| 12 | It m probably not as long as a year but it 's quite a while |
| 13 | Hitachi , Toshiba , Mitsubishi , Fujitsu , Nippon Electric and Matsushita — the largest of the ‘ mech-tronics ’ groups began making-robots as long as a decade ago . |
| 14 | We do not know how long he stayed in Paris — it could have been as long as a decade . |
| 15 | As a general rule , though , it is easier to cope with a dry site than a wet one : as long as a water supply is available , a dry site can be moistened to highlight the differences in soil colour and texture . |
| 16 | And then I want my shaft to be as long as a furlong and time to stand still and my tongue to be dipped in honey . |
| 17 | A trail of suds as long as a day 's walk |
| 18 | The group informally known as labyrinthodonts ( from their characteristic labyrinth-ridged teeth ) included some impressive animals almost as long as a man : perhaps the alligators of the time . |
| 19 | Black as night , with flaming red eyes and tusks as long as a man 's arm , the Erymanthian Boar had killed many people . |
| 20 | By the central pole stood a great oaken chest , three feet high and as long as a man . |
| 21 | As long as a man was unfree , he had no access to the royal courts , but could plead only in his lord 's court . |
| 22 | The theory goes something like this : as long as a country can continue to borrow money , it will effectively be able to ‘ roll over ’ its debt indefinitely . |
| 23 | Sometimes , as long as a minute passes before the ‘ yes ’ button is depressed by beak or paw . |
| 24 | It was a large fire , the mantle above it the height of Riven 's shoulders , and it was as long as a bed . |
| 25 | In historical periods a loss factor of about 2 per cent per annum is known to have occurred ; compounded over a period of as long as a century , this will clearly drastically reduce the amount of coinage of year a available to the hoarder at the later date . |
| 26 | It was , after all , as long as a cow . |
| 27 | The new 600 Plus film packs for all cameras , £8.99 for a pack of 10 , include a battery to power all the camera 's functions — so as long as a film is loaded , the camera has power . |
| 28 | As long as a son holds on to the mother as a love-object he must ineluctably be in conflict with the father , just as , conversely , as soon as he accepts the paternal authority and identifies with his father to constitute his superego he must suppress his fundamental parricidal antagonism and with it his incestuous fixation . |
| 29 | It came unclouded to them from our fathers , and we will defend this land , as long as a drop of Indian blood warms the hearts of our men . |
| 30 | as long as a piece of string , but I might be okay cos Matthew 's junior captain this year |