Example sentences of "[adv] as [art] [noun] can " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In this way , the original small nucleus of people grows by adding people to it in stages , much as a snowball can be built up by rolling it along the snow on the ground ( e.g. Plant 1975 ; Mars 1982 ) . |
| 2 | The effect of s7(2) and ( 3 ) is that the other implied terms can not be excluded or restricted at all where the buyer deals as a consumer ; they can be excluded outside of consumer supply transactions so long as the supplier can show that such an exclusion is fair and reasonable . |
| 3 | Rangers ' pitch will now be lifted at the earliest opportunity and a new one laid in its place , so long as the work can be carried out in time for the new season . |
| 4 | So long as the animals can not make contact with the nets there is no problem . |
| 5 | Long as the porters can see their own hands . |
| 6 | The environmental conditions with which the system is in equilibrium may shift , and only so long as the equilibrium can be set at new and workable positions can the species survive . |
| 7 | In such a slice , appropriate stimulation of the input pathways will also lead to LTP which persists for as long as the slice can be maintained alive . |
| 8 | If , for example , your company uses PCs extensively but the obvious choice in software happens only to run on a Unix workstation then so long as the files can be transported between the two systems there is no penalty in selecting an ‘ alien ’ hardware platform . |
| 9 | Where any power to revoke or determine can not be exercised within six years from the time when any particular property first becomes comprised in the settlement , the subsection does not apply to income arising under the settlement from that property , or from property representing that property , so long as the power can not be exercised . |
| 10 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
| 11 | The register , like other records that a company is required to maintain , may be kept either in bound books or by recording the matter in any other way and , in particular , may be on a computer or other electronic device so long as the material can be reproduced in legible form and is so reproduced for purposes of inspection or supply of a copy . |
| 12 | ‘ Queen of Pleasures , ’ he smiled , speaking as gently as a man can . |
| 13 | And just as the Spirit can not be equated with any property in man , equally it can not be regarded as the stuff of which the world is made , the comprehensive life principle which integrates the universe , as the Stoics maintained — a view which , through pagan philosophical influence , crept into the inter-testamental books of the Apocrypha . |
| 14 | The key to the repressive discipline advocated in this manual of behaviour is that it is to be the means by which man is liberated from all that thwarts his true nature , just as the dancer can only use his body expressively if he trains his muscles : " those move easiest who have learnt to dance " . |
| 15 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 16 | Parent company Abacus Municipal Holdings are ready to relinquish their involvement as soon as a buyer can be found . |
| 17 | This is being run as a pilot scheme in three counties this year , and will go nationwide as soon as a sponsor can be found . |
| 18 | As soon as the assault can be prepared , it will be made . |
| 19 | As soon as the child can walk the sphere of his education is extended . |
| 20 | A single litter is taken from them , and as soon as the piglets can be weaned the gilts are marketed . |
| 21 | Except on the odd occasion when the paper tray is empty , the problem only seems to be the inability of the printer to handle data as quickly as the PC can send it . |
| 22 | But worse , at this point design can " no longer be aware of itself for to separate the social formative and communicative-representational functions is to reduce itself , to make its activity into a variation of technical activity , unimportant in itself , important only in so far as a problem can be solved through it , a product constructed . |
| 23 | In so far as a timetable can be thought of as functioning like a rule it can be thought of as an instrument of order . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the assumption underlying this third argument is that by concentrating in so far as the court can , upon ‘ process ’ rather than the ‘ merits , ’ judicial review will be less controversial . |
| 25 | The interesting implication of disregarding them is that in so far as the STV can operate and be judged as a PR system , it is not at all because it provides for transfers of votes , but because it is used in pluri-member constituencies in which candidates of more than one party can be voted for effectively . |
| 26 | I hasten to add that no curse caused it — no hex or bewitchment , so far as the Adepts can determine ; nor even any lapse in liturgy . |
| 27 | It is , however , possible for the seller to be exempted from liability under sections 13 to 15 of the Sale of Goods Act , but only in so far as the seller can show that the exemption clause satisfies the requirement of reasonableness , i.e. that it was a ‘ fair and reasonable one to be included having regard to circumstances which were , or ought reasonably to have been , known to or in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made ’ ( section 11 ) . |
| 28 | Here , the aim of the global capitalist system is total inclusion of all classes , and especially the subordinate classes in so far as the bourgeoisie can be considered already included . |
| 29 | An excursion to the top of the high alpine road of Gross Glockner will leave you breathless at the fantastic views stretching as far as the eye can see in every direction . |
| 30 | Magnificent Karnak , with its corridors of stone rams , sky-embracing pillars and gigantic inscrutable statues , stretching apparently as far as the eye can see , is breathtaking . |