Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 31 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 32 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 33 | When you 've brawled around for as long as I have your senses get to know the kind of fix that you ca n't just walk through or away from . |
| 34 | ‘ But after knowing you for as long as I have — ’ |
| 35 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 36 | ‘ I 'm in good shape and I will sing for as long as I have the strength to do so , ’ he added . |
| 37 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |
| 38 | For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward . |
| 39 | These fish in the 1lb to 2lb class can be a hundred or more strong in a shoal , and if you begin catching this size of barbel it is likely they will remain in the swim , feeding off and on , for as long as you have bait to keep them interested . |
| 40 | ‘ Sometimes , my friend , I wonder how you 've managed to last as long as you have . ’ |
| 41 | It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century . |
| 42 | There have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people but , before the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century , public awareness was low . |
| 43 | It is hoped that members will continue to support the Trust as generously as they have done in the past , in the knowledge that by responding to information mailed to them they are making a contribution to the Trust 's work . |
| 44 | I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom . |
| 45 | So it 's jargon , it 's assuming people will pick things up as quickly as we have and it 's not recognising that people have different interpretations . |
| 46 | And no-one has covered Northern Ireland as thoroughly as we have : Panorama 's Dirty War examined the way British intelligence ran agent Brian Nelson ; Lethal Force tested the suspicion that men who could have been captured or wanted to surrender had been shot dead whilst a special on the Guildford Four broke new ground , exposing the role of the DPP 's office in withholding crucial evidence . |
| 47 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 48 | If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia . |
| 49 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
| 50 | The power of decision being committed by the statute exclusively to the housing authority , their exercise of the power can only be challenged before the courts on the strictly limited grounds ( i ) that their decision was vitiated by bias or procedural unfairness ; ( ii ) that they have reached a conclusion of fact which can be impugned on the principles set out in the speech of Lord Radcliffe in Edwards v. Bairstow [ 1956 ] A.C. 14 ; or ( iii ) that , in as far as they have exercised a discretion ( as they may require to do in considering questions of reasonableness under section 17(1) ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) ) , the exercise can be impugned on the principles set out in the judgment of Lord Greene M.R. in Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B . |
| 51 | As far as they have been able to check , they believe that they are the only two Scottish CAs in partnership together in Australia , but we would be interested in hearing from anyone who thinks that they might have a claim to that title . |
| 52 | Of course , he will have to cope with demonstrations , many of the less sober sort , but , as far as I have heard , he is doing this with massive inscrutability . |
| 53 | As far as I have been able to discover , the first papers in French West Africa to be owned and controlled by Africans were Le Cri Nègre and Le Phare du Dahomey . |
| 54 | The view of these two organizations , as far as I have been able to discover , runs something like this . |
| 55 | As far as I have seen , the BBC has not even seen fit to broadcast a single programme in his memory . |
| 56 | He suggests that ‘ as far as I have been able to grasp the concept , to be ‘ staff ’ means to have authority without having responsibility . |
| 57 | As far as I have been able to find out , it has no specific connection with Bristol but is named after Nonsuch Palace , which was built in Surrey near Hampton Court . |
| 58 | but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have |
| 59 | This process rarely runs as smoothly as I have suggested . |
| 60 | Peta and Isobel fell in love with the place as surely as we have and they , like us , concentrated on the commonplace . |