Example sentences of "as [adv] as it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree , however , that for 20 years he and his predecessors have pursued the will-of-the-wisp of power-sharing , devolved government ; and that , for as long as it is pursued , the IRA will believe , rightly or wrongly , that it will get us out in the end ? |
| 2 | The other unusual and perhaps best known characteristic of Trolls is that their flesh is able to regrow almost as quickly as it is damaged . |
| 3 | A host state may restrict the activities of a financial institution as far as it is justified by the general good . |
| 4 | This paint will run as far as it is allowed but will not bleed . |
| 5 | This paint will run as far as it is allowed but will not bleed . |
| 6 | Steers ( 1964 ) took up this point and argued that the structure and history , as far as it is known , of Blakeney Point pointed to a westwards movement of material in the long term view . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the Germans and others who in Freud 's time were antisemitic , but who had not yet , as far as it was known , introduced the Final Solution , had been coerced into Christianity quite recently in their history . |
| 8 | With their wingers , the ball is flashing across the face of goal as often as it is delivered in the air and Cantona will probably thrive on this sort of service . |
| 9 | Erm it would be wrong to say Wales is a weak region on the basis of this , it 's just not , does n't appear , or does n't expect to grow as strongly as it was growing . |
| 10 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 11 | The next stage , provided the accumulation is not destroyed almost as fast as it is formed , is the colonisation of the incipient dune by marram grass , Ammophila arenaria . |
| 12 | Oxygen is much less soluble in water than carbon dioxide and in order for fish life to be sustained it must be replenished as fast as it is used up . |
| 13 | Eventually an equilibrium was reached , and although the Troll flesh was still there Grom was digesting it as fast as it was regrowing . |
| 14 | Whatever they ate they kept on getting ill , because Rabscuttle was hiding in the store-rooms and spoiling the food as fast as it was brought in . |