Example sentences of "[adv] as the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've not managed to clear the speaker 's part of the platform as entirely as the Americans do , but at least we 've managed to create a decent space around the speaker . |
| 2 | Hector , picking at his food , sat up suddenly as the rushes moved gently under her feet . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , in the late 1970s it was easy to see the divisions of Zuwaya into sections and lineages reflected in the street map of Ajdabiya , much as the oases of Kufra or Tazarbu were subdivided into tribal territories . |
| 4 | It somehow ‘ lies beneath ’ them as another ‘ thing ’ , much as the clothes horse lies underneath the clothes . |
| 5 | I try to rise above such prejudices , much as the communicators rise above the prejudices of the C2s . |
| 6 | They also , in turn , completely dominated their homeland , much as the black-and-whites do today . |
| 7 | ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ is religious music in its most contemporary and pure form , from a thirty year old woman who has devoted her soul to its production much as the monks of the middle ages created illuminated manuscripts . |
| 8 | Wilson in the end fails to escape from ‘ the nexus of moralistic ideology and patriarchal vision dressed up as social science , ( ibid. ) , much as the writers reviewed by Macnicol failed to do . |
| 9 | Much as the regimes of Eastern Europe might welcome the support of their neighbours against Moscow — and hence a strengthening of such multilateral forums — they also view their neighbours as rival claimants to Moscow 's favour and are wary of giving them a greater voice in their own affairs . |
| 10 | Normally , release prints are made from a duplicate ( 'dupe' ) negative , much as the pictures in this book are made from dupes of the ( expensive , irreplaceable ) slides borrowed from agencies . |
| 11 | They were wonderful horsemen and gloried in their skills , much as the Cossacks did in later times . |
| 12 | Prison staff felt towards abolition much as the employees of an old established family firm would feel towards merger into an international conglomerate . |
| 13 | ‘ So long as the things being moved and shaken show no ripples … |
| 14 | Tolerance of strangers may be morally right however threatened one feels , at least so long as the strangers respect the laws and customs of the country they have settled in . |
| 15 | Now erm well let , let me start again people think okay , if the Conservatives win , win control alright it might be another fifty pence on night class at the er at the , the college you know , something something like that erm it might mean erm a few redundancies in the town hall and a greater level of privatization but s but people tend to think well so what so long as the bins are getting emptied . |
| 16 | So long as the adventurers keep out of the circle , all well and good . |
| 17 | So long as the energies of project workers and project participants can be distracted by the relentless search for short-term funding , the chances of any significant changes being achieved are minimal . |
| 18 | However , so long as the figures are seen as illustrations of typical developments and not as a catalogue of all possible types of flow , this may not matter much . |
| 19 | All this will be possible so long as the materials … possess the qualities of being first hand , sensory , within the pupil 's experience , limited in quantity , and making human sense . |
| 20 | This worked as a strategy at least for as long as the persons involved lived in the same household and shared their resources . |
| 21 | Realistically , there may be little prospect of making better progress than this so long as the systems themselves remain largely no more than promises rather than commercially available products . |
| 22 | The protection afforded by pellets has already been mentioned , and bone that is left in pellets or scats is protected from many modifying agents for as long as the pellets and scats remain intact . |
| 23 | So long as the eddies are still relatively small compared with the length scale of the mean flow ( e.g. wake width ) , their features are adequately described by the considerations of Section 19.3 . |
| 24 | And for so long as the honours system continues in operation , there ought to be recognition of citizenship as a criterion . |
| 25 | Our discussion has shown that so long as the resources used by producers are accessible to all , all their activities are entrepreneurial-competitive . |
| 26 | Support continues for as long as the parents feel they need it , and is renewed , if they wish , if and when the mother becomes pregnant again . |
| 27 | In this regard an employee who is the victim of a violent incident whilst undertaking such temporary duties and , as a result , is absent from work will be paid the appropriate allowance at the higher rate for as long as the circumstances which gave rise to this temporary arrangement continues . |
| 28 | It will be about twice as long as the goods brake and , as Colin 's article states , it will be carried on No. 5 's bogies and used as a mobile shop/ticket office/refreshment car . |
| 29 | So long as the goods remain the Seller 's property in accordance with clause 8.1. the Buyer will : 8.3.1. insure them against loss or damage under a policy which protects the Seller 's interest in the goods ; 8.3.2. store them separately from other , similar goods owned by any other person , so that they remain identifiable as the Seller 's property ; 8.3.3. allow the authorised representatives of the Seller to have access at any reasonable time to the premises where the goods are stored , in order to inspect the goods . |
| 30 | 8(3) So long as the goods remain the Seller 's property in accordance with clause 8(1) the Buyer will : ( a ) insure them against loss or damage under a policy which protects the Seller 's interest in the goods ; ( b ) store them separately from other , similar goods owned by any person , so that they remain identifiable as the Seller 's property ; ( c ) allow the authorised representatives of the Seller to have access at any reasonable time to the premises where the goods are stored , in order to inspect the goods . |