Example sentences of "long as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be a reason why the law should be altered by statute ; it does not prevent it from being law , or affect its operation , as long as no alteration in the law is made by statute . |
| 2 | Ugly as Corryhully Lodge is , you would n't say no to being asked in for a cold beer as you passed , as long as no one you knew saw you go in . |
| 3 | As long as no one is inflicting harm on anyone else , why should they be made to feel guilty for a little self-indulgence ? |
| 4 | As long as no individual is forced to work and no shop is forced to open , it must be right to change the law so people can do their shopping when they wish . |
| 5 | At one place he described the statement ‘ physics has higher verisimilitude than astrology ’ as plausible and asks why it should not be accepted as long as no serious alternative is offered . |
| 6 | However , it was reported that , as LEAs are always under pressure from schools to assign teachers to direct teaching posts , funding professional development teachers appeared to remain insecure as long as no external financial support was available from central government . |
| 7 | ‘ Just as long as no one 's taken a room opposite , ’ I say . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , as long as no one throws you to the lions . ’ |
| 9 | However , a ‘ perfectly competitive market ’ could only exist as long as no one individual or group of individuals could influence prices . |
| 10 | As long as no one blew up the bloody hotel , that is . |
| 11 | It is these internally generated or endogenous components , lasting sometimes as long as a second after the triggering stimulus , which offer the most potential for investigating mental activities . |
| 12 | As long as a band can physically and economically do it , I would want to take their music to the people wherever they are . |
| 13 | And then I want my shaft to be as long as a furlong and time to stand still and my tongue to be dipped in honey . |
| 14 | In historical periods a loss factor of about 2 per cent per annum is known to have occurred ; compounded over a period of as long as a century , this will clearly drastically reduce the amount of coinage of year a available to the hoarder at the later date . |
| 15 | Pots and vases from the dawn of human history , armour for the ‘ small man ’ of the middle ages , swords as long as a medium-sized lamp-post , delicately inlaid flint-lock pistols and hunting rifles , rooms and rooms and rooms full of dust-motes dancing in shafts of sunlight , the smell of wax and leather , the long shelves of dead things . |
| 16 | It came unclouded to them from our fathers , and we will defend this land , as long as a drop of Indian blood warms the hearts of our men . |
| 17 | The group informally known as labyrinthodonts ( from their characteristic labyrinth-ridged teeth ) included some impressive animals almost as long as a man : perhaps the alligators of the time . |
| 18 | As long as a sensible training programme is followed , the child 's body will develop at a pace that will match his/her ambitions . |
| 19 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 20 | And the partnership 's life is a short as a task completed or as long as a connected , improving spiral of programme sustains it through renewal . |
| 21 | However , as long as a system can recognize that this use of ‘ in the hand ’ implies that the hand is part of ‘ him ’ , it can avoid this kind of reasoning altogether and adopt a constraint propagation method to resolve both pronouns . |
| 22 | Hitachi , Toshiba , Mitsubishi , Fujitsu , Nippon Electric and Matsushita — the largest of the ‘ mech-tronics ’ groups began making-robots as long as a decade ago . |
| 23 | Unscrupulous bird exporters do n't care : they simply catch more birds , and as long as a few per cage survive , they are still in profit . |
| 24 | Sometimes , as long as a minute passes before the ‘ yes ’ button is depressed by beak or paw . |
| 25 | There is a kind of corporate responsibility , and as long as a government is just it is a citizen 's duty to support it , but when the actions or a government hurt the individual and harm the nation it is the duty of a citizen to withdraw his support . |
| 26 | Black as night , with flaming red eyes and tusks as long as a man 's arm , the Erymanthian Boar had killed many people . |
| 27 | A trail of suds as long as a day 's walk |
| 28 | As photographers know , a great deal can happen in periods of time as long as a hundredth of a second . |
| 29 | ‘ No thanks , ’ he replied , his face as long as a landslide , ‘ I once went to the House of Commons to see how the country was run . |
| 30 | In the case of the breeding tank , undergravel filters have been found to be more than adequate in most situations as long as a few basic concepts are followed . |