Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compensation deal will cost the government an estimated A$100m and involves Canberra waiving airport landing charges for as long as it takes the airlines to recoup their losses from keeping about 21,000 non-pilot employees on their staff during the dispute . |
| 2 | Plutocracy inevitably governs the arts , it was suggested , as surely as it governs the terms of the trade . |
| 3 | Protectionist policies , designed to deal with unemployment , temporarily ended the rule of the Conservative Party at the end of 1923 just as surely as it helped the Conservative Party to political dominance in the 1930s . |
| 4 | To counter this , water is secreted into a contractile vacuole as fast as it enters the amoeba . |
| 5 | Although I am sure that the Publishers Association is sincere in wishing to manage the book club rules as tightly as it manages the Net Book Agreement , we are all aware of the increasing confidence of the book clubs , who are bound to accelerate their invasion into the territory that booksellers have regarded as theirs . |