Example sentences of "[adv] as they [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |
| 2 | The celebrations of selflessness and sacrifice are much as they were in the wartime films , but this time there seems little point in asserting them , nothing to be argued for . |
| 3 | Most ceremonies take place in a synagogue , but can be performed anywhere so long as they are under a chuppah ( wedding canopy ) . |
| 4 | So long as they are on a well-drained surface above ground-water level , moisture from above will not harm them , and clamps may be built outside anywhere sheltered from strong winds . |
| 5 | But , as long as they are in my hands , I can not bring myself to destroy any more , or anything written by you . |
| 6 | While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’ |
| 7 | The rest are harder to get registered — designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and dubbed jubilee kiosks , they were mass-produced until 1968 — but they are likely to survive so long as they are in good condition and in ‘ heritage locations ’ ( that is , near the house of somebody ready to give BT a hard time if it tries to take them away ) . |
| 8 | So long as they 're on strike you can keep their wages , ca n't you ? |
| 9 | This scheme provided for a mixed system of public and private pensions , with many of the better paid and more secure groups of workers able to ‘ contract out ’ into private schemes so long as they were at least as good as the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme ( SERPS ) . |
| 10 | So long as they were in favour , they were free to feather their nests , which Andrei did as industriously as anyone else . |
| 11 | Somehow I never dreamed that they might get involved , especially as they are in London . |
| 12 | The two older seated men can only be fitted in as they are in fig. 124 : behind the chariot on our right ; and next the figure in the other angle . |
| 13 | These homemade videos are often as rough-looking inside as they are on the outside . |
| 14 | MPs did have the opportunity for dalliance , away as they were from home for the best part of the week — and for more than half the year . |
| 15 | Taking everything into account it is remarkable that the Coniston Mines , tucked away as they were amongst these remote mountains in the north-west of England ( and with the smelters so far away ) , were able to sustain so many years of almost unbroken continuity . |
| 16 | ‘ Mum and dad will be coming just as they are with no red and white or blue and white scarves , ’ said David . |
| 17 | The exact numbers or names that we use to label a given address are arbitrary , just as they are for computer memory . |
| 18 | There is , so far as I know , no solid evidence for any of these beliefs ; nor is there much to show that the family is , in fact , changing in its significance within society or in its psychological implications for child upbringing , albeit that pressures upon it are increasing just as they are upon individuals by reason of the increasing complication and tempo of life in Western society . |
| 19 | However , it has also been argued that women are discriminated against by the agents of the law , just as they are in other areas of life . |
| 20 | But cars are what they are called on the London Underground , just as they are in all American trains . |
| 21 | These outcomes are most undesirable , just as they are in a purely private company . |
| 22 | 4.3 Once again , our interpretation has consequences for grammaticality and linguistic form which match observable data : First , it implies , inter alia , that adjectives which can not be ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase — such as the associatives — will be unacceptable here , just as they are in postnominal attributive position , and this is indeed the case : ( 19 ) how did the Ministry send their expert ? they sent their expert well-briefed they sent their expert meteorological ( 20 ) how do you find the new flag ? we find the flag gaudy we find the flag national |
| 23 | The genes were too deeply buried , just as they are in real life . |
| 24 | The different scenarios are there in the past just as they are in the future , and it 's the historian 's job in a way to explain why there are different scenarios , and to give some idea of how many of them there are . |
| 25 | And then just as they 're on The Chair , they suddenly accelerate violently , to pop over it . |
| 26 | Prompted by a return to international competition , drug tests on two players from each Currie Cup side were introduced this season , just as they were during the World Cup . |
| 27 | Heralds were an essential aspect of the waging of war , just as they were of chivalry . |
| 28 | Although EEC policy is necessarily uniform for the Community as a whole , member governments are responsible for applying it in ways which are relevant to local problems , just as they were for identifying boundaries of their Less Favoured Areas in the first place . |
| 29 | Today 's children are still enraptured by the approach of the illuminated cars along the Promenade , just as they were by the Gondola and Lifeboat in days gone by . |
| 30 | Until very recently , married women were unable to draw the allowance for the care of invalid relatives because it was assumed that they would do that anyway as they were at home all the time , despite the fact that two-thirds of married women work . |