Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently as long as I get it on a P C disk , five inch |
| 2 | One should attempt to withhold all conventional hypotensive agents for as long as possible as they will tend to exacerbate the postural hypotension . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A junior Defence Minister attempted to explain that a bomb might easily be planted in a barracks : ‘ Anyone could walk in as long as they were carrying a package which did not look suspicious . ’ |
| 5 | There was a heady scent of rosemary and thyme in the air , and she breathed it in , feeling strangely at peace for the first time in as long as she could remember . |
| 6 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 7 | ‘ He means , ’ said Rita , slowly , in her loud classroom voice , ‘ anyone could walk in as long as he or she were not carrying a package that did look suspicious . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fair enough as long as they come back and they put a ticket on . |
| 10 | I mean , one scapegoat is enough as long as he does hit bit . ’ |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Folates are found in wholegrain cereals , fruit and vegetables , so as long as her diet included plenty of these the risk of spina bifida was low . |
| 13 | so as long as they er did n't actually have |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Gilmore said , ‘ The army has worked with the civil authority to bring about a reduction in violence and will continue to do so as long as it is necessary . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | So as long as your carrots are |
| 18 | So as long as you you 're thinking that they 're doing okay and meeting the market demand . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's all kegs nowadays , so as long as you keep it fairly cool , it comes up smiling . ’ |
| 20 | So as long as you get rid of that one , two , three , four , you can press the space bar and then enter . |
| 21 | So as long as you 're in the X positive , then you 're moving in a positive direction , or a er |
| 22 | So as long as you 're behind the ball you can keep moving |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This makes sense when taken together with IBM Europe 's statement that it has excess manufacturing capacity : rather than close the plants straight away , it has thrown them to the market — they will get business from IBM but only as long as they can provide products at the going market rate . |
| 26 | At the press conference Bush confirmed that the US forces would remain in the Gulf area only as long as they were required , and would be withdrawn as soon as the crisis was resolved . |
| 27 | ‘ Finally , we got the go-ahead , but only as long as we included Paul Williams . ’ |
| 28 | Yet clearly this is true only as long as we leave the judging subject out of the picture . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The volume concludes with the first country-house poem published in English , an encomium of the countess 's estate at Cookham , in which the passing of the seasons suggests the ephemerality of patronage relations ; the walks bear ‘ summer Liveries ’ , and the prospect of hills and vales appears to ‘ preferre some strange unlook 'd for sute ’ only as long as their mistress is in residence . |