Example sentences of "[adv] as we [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Searle presented his argument , which attacks the basic tenet of artificial intelligence that machines can in principle understand symbols and signalled events much as we do , in the form of an analogy in a much-quoted paper : ‘ Minds , brains and programmes ’ ( Behavioural and Brain Sciences , vol 3 , p 417 ) . |
| 2 | Bees normally use microbes to ferment food proteins , much as we deal with cheese or yoghurt . |
| 3 | Much as we love our Church , we know it falls far short of its inheritance of faith . |
| 4 | Going back to the family problem just mentioned , much as we love that child in spite of his problems , we would not let ourselves be completely taken over . |
| 5 | By contrast gardening , much as we love it , is generally a bit static . |
| 6 | She liked us to keep to our promise , but quite understood if the children were ill , or something else cropped up , and we got behind — so long as we let her know immediately . |
| 7 | This is fine so long as we recognize how little we genuinely know about education , and how cautious therefore must be the -claims that we are able to make . |
| 8 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 9 | ‘ We are very comfortable at Government House and Lady Franklin will not hear of our going from it so long as we remain in town . |
| 10 | But we can not explain why this is always objectionable , so long as we remain on the plane of justice as I have defined it . |
| 11 | Sophisticated dyes and colourings make it possible to hide this sign of age for as long as we wish and those in public life may , unfortunately , believe that only by covering the tell-tale grey will they maintain their credibility as energetic and creative top people . |
| 12 | ‘ So long as we get him out ’ — Cameron was still cagey . |
| 13 | So so long as we get something . |
| 14 | Just so long as we maintain the candidacy . ’ |
| 15 | So long as we boil it , it should be OK . |
| 16 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 17 | This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) . |
| 18 | He believed as Lionel Curtis did that Indians ' souls had to be renovated before they were fit to govern : he deeply shocked the American journalist William Shirer by announcing that ‘ Self-government … is inconceivable and unattainable without the removal of untouchability , as it also is without Hindu-Moslem unity … we shall be unfit to gain independence so long as we keep in bondage a fifth of the population of Hindustan . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Some have praised our style and said it does n't matter if we go down , so long as we keep playing football . |
| 20 | President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine denied Tory MPs were looking for a new leader , saying : ‘ We know that so long as we keep our nerve and pursue policies that are important we can come through . |
| 21 | However , even if things go badly , so long as we survive as partly rational creatures we should always be able to find some satisfaction in understanding our situation and doing what reason points to as the most effective way of dealing with it . |
| 22 | I 've found a place where we can sleep safely for as long as we like . " |
| 23 | But it does not invalidate the argument of the last paragraph : so long as we judge there to be a need for government and common policies , democratic principle will require that minorities have to accept majority decisions to which they are opposed . |
| 24 | That Madam , Gary used to say , she 's been forty for as long as we 've known her . |
| 25 | Not so long as we 've got the stuff . |
| 26 | ‘ All I know is that for as long as we go on winning , the challenge is on and Bath ca n't squeeze past for the title . |
| 27 | We shall not only survive but continue to grow so long as we give value for money , retain our record of innovation and flexibility , keep the confidence and goodwill of our clients and ensure that we have the best possible range of materials , methods and people in the industry . |
| 28 | So long as we adopt a broadly ‘ functionalist ’ philosophy of mind — in which mental states are defined in terms of their causal relations to sensory inputs , motor outputs and to one another — this ‘ computational theory of the mind ’ is a very satisfying general account of the mind-body relationship . |
| 29 | The Intifada was perhaps the most convincing refutation ever of the time- honoured , complacent dogma that ‘ the status quo can last as long as we want it to . ’ |
| 30 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |