Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adj] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently as long as I get it on a P C disk , five inch |
| 2 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 3 | He took a pride in his job and he did n't mind how many hours he put in as long as he got paid for them . |
| 4 | Fair enough as long as they come back and they put a ticket on . |
| 5 | I mean , one scapegoat is enough as long as he does hit bit . ’ |
| 6 | so as long as we 've got a date by Saturday he can go and do it , if we still have n't got a date he wo n't be able to go and do it |
| 7 | It is the last bastion against all these evils , and will remain so as long as it keeps acquiring books it does not have when they are found and brought to it . |
| 8 | ‘ Now then , as your duly elected leader , let me assure you that I am always working tirelessly on your behalf , and I will continue to do so as long as I remain your duly elected leader . |
| 9 | We 've call parked you Anthea , by Jo 's phone , so as long as you know that , you wo n't be too perturbed about the length of time , hopefully , so you put your handset down , and we can either wait 75 seconds , in which case what would happen . |
| 10 | So as long as you get rid of that one , two , three , four , you can press the space bar and then enter . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's all kegs nowadays , so as long as you keep it fairly cool , it comes up smiling . ’ |
| 12 | A person 's autonomous choices call for respect only as long as they do not seriously impinge on another 's enjoyment of his autonomy and that other has not agreed beforehand to give up certain of his choices as a condition of practising medicine in , for example , the National Health Service . |
| 13 | Yet clearly this is true only as long as we leave the judging subject out of the picture . |
| 14 | There are probably about 50 stars within radio range if we assume that they have had radio technology for only as long as we have . |
| 15 | ‘ Finally , we got the go-ahead , but only as long as we included Paul Williams . ’ |
| 16 | Transferred to the realm of gender relations , this would describe the state of affairs in which a woman has influence over a man and manipulates his discourses , but is allowed this power only as long as she agrees not to flaunt it and remains in the position of silent partner with no autonomous voice . |
| 17 | That Franco would tolerate political diversity only as long as it offered no real competition to his hegemony was revealed by an incident which occurred in February 1946 . |
| 18 | However , the natives , who had known yasak , or alman , before the Russians arrived on the scene , and regarded it as a payment by a vanquished people to its conqueror , in the time-honoured manner would pay only as long as it suited them . |
| 19 | It clearly precludes the collection of data for its own sake , or just in case it might turn out to be useful ; and it requires that information shall be kept for only as long as it remains relevant . |
| 20 | ‘ Only as long as you knew I would n't let you . ’ |
| 21 | A tan is healthy only as long as you give your skin adequate protection from damaging rays and in the mountains the sun can be particularly strong . |
| 22 | I like to use Norwegian salmon rather than Scotch as I find it more juicy and delicate in flavour . |
| 23 | ‘ Not as long as you live ! ’ |
| 24 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 25 | This is the great hall and I could spend easily as long as I 've already spent on on this hall but I wo n't . |
| 26 | Later , while Rachel was checking supplies , Nina happened to mention that the new MO seemed to be proving more popular with the staff than the previous one had been , then added , ‘ Just as long as they do n't think he 's a soft touch and that they can come in here with a finger ache and think he 'll send them home . ’ |
| 27 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 28 | Mark Hateley and I have 70 between us , which is incredible , but it really does n't matter if I score or not tomorrow just as long as we get one more than Bruges . ’ |
| 29 | . He was a cabinet maker and er then the boss and we just all sort of worked You know sometimes we had a quite a lot of work going and other times we would n't have anything and other times you were standing waiting doing nothing , waiting in the job g coming for the cabinet makers who would send through legs , something to get started just as long as we got started to work , maybe it was in a hurry . |
| 30 | Hence , learning takes just as long as it takes to present and record the examples . |