Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to see it entirely as it never is , |
| 2 | ‘ Your mother perchance felt for your father , much as you now feel for Prince Edward . |
| 3 | It could have been taken , he reckoned , from the very spot where he was standing , capturing the scene much as it now was , altered only by the onset of winter . |
| 4 | The tug of war was still going on , just as fiercely as it ever had , only now Charles was tugging her towards Damian Flint while Jamie hurled accusations of betrayal . |
| 5 | We shall go on expanding higher and further education to ensure more of our young people go on to college as naturally as they once went down the pit or onto the shop floor . |
| 6 | Labour 's spokesman on food had come to the House thinking — unwisely as it soon turned out — that he was going to roast Mr Gummer . |
| 7 | The parents would cooperate all right , so long as nobody else interfered . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're safe , so long as nobody else finds out . |
| 9 | Yet Anglicans had always allowed for passive resistance , in the sense of non-compliance with the ungodly commands of the sovereign , so long as one peacefully accepted the punishments for one 's disobedience . |
| 10 | We succumbed to temptation once , Bernard , but I 'm sure Mary will forgive just so long as we never , ever do it again . ’ |
| 11 | Right , so long as we then strike yellow , we can put it in . |
| 12 | Parents with an existing mortgage are eligible , so long as they still own a large enough chunk of the equity . |
| 13 | ‘ Anyone can say they have no quarrel with people so long as they always get their own way . ’ |
| 14 | The contradiction remains that in a liberal framework , feminism can be tolerated in a piecemeal way , and be claimed as evidence of enlightenment and progress , so long as nothing else — the rest — has to change . |
| 15 | Furthermore , China has been compelled to accept western technology by that universal and all-powerful human trait , which can be summed up thus : — ‘ Human beings are satisfied with the status quo only so long as nothing more attractive is experienced ’ . |
| 16 | But the sunrise of impending suicide bathes him and others in fiery metaphysical comedy ; , ‘ be as free as you like , ’ Peter Verkhovensky tells him , ‘ so long as you do n't change your mind ’ — that is ‘ so long as your entirely free intention is carried out ’ . |
| 17 | But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent . |
| 18 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 19 | Oh , yes , he was himself again , he would be trailing this glory after him for as long as it still shed lustre . |
| 20 | To be non-envious means to be quite happy if the other player wins just as much money as you do , so long as you both thereby win more from the banker . |
| 21 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 22 | Continue for as long as you comfortably can and record the number of steps . |
| 23 | Continue for as long as you comfortably can and record the number of steps . |
| 24 | Then jog properly for as long as you comfortably can . |
| 25 | Then jog properly for as long as you comfortably can . |
| 26 | So long as you okay the pay-off , of course . |
| 27 | Take as long as you like . |
| 28 | I do n't mind , I do n't mind so long as I just get out a bit on , into town and |
| 29 | But his risk is slight so long as he promptly obtains registration of the transfer . |
| 30 | ‘ So long as he still has silver to pay us with , ’ Flodwig said . |