Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast gardening , much as we love it , is generally a bit static . |
| 2 | Much as we love our Church , we know it falls far short of its inheritance of faith . |
| 3 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 4 | Much as I esteem you , I will not manipulate events for your personal gratification . ’ |
| 5 | much as I miss you |
| 6 | Much as I like my Barbour , I have to admit it is not a safe colour and wear a reflective Sam Browne belt in poor weather . |
| 7 | ‘ Much as I admire your unstructured lifestyle , on the evidence of the knees in those jeans I 'd think twice before I traded bank accounts with you . ’ |
| 8 | We would say : ‘ Much as I love you , I can not condone this behaviour . |
| 9 | Much as I love you , I do n't love you that much ! |
| 10 | That would slay me , Charles , much as I love it . ’ |
| 11 | Apparently as you know I mean biblical criticism is a very and well people have devoted their whole lives to it , but apparently there is a , a school o of , quite a large school I think o of biblical critical that claims that there are actually two Moses and not one . |
| 12 | It was more like Jewish rabbinical study , where students chant the words of the Talmud aloud as they memorise them , rather than the silent , interior disciplines of a Buddhist monk . |
| 13 | One of the best editing techniques is to read the piece aloud as you check it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ So long as we get him out ’ — Cameron was still cagey . |
| 16 | So so long as we get something . |
| 17 | So long as we boil it , it should be OK . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The game against Marseille will now be a battle but so long as we have someone like Andy Goram behind us , we feel solid . |
| 22 | So long as we learn something from every mistake we make , time has n't been wasted . |
| 23 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 24 | cos I do n't mind what they have so long as they eat it |
| 25 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 26 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 27 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 28 | They will not wear their knuckles out knocking at the West 's door , so long as they feel it will be opened to them before too long . |
| 29 | If the relatives are able to go to the mortuary or viewing room and be with the person who has died for as long as they feel it to be necessary , then they are more able to start absorbing the fact of their loved one 's death , because again they have the evidence in front of them . |
| 30 | The second interpretation can be arrived at by reading the provision in two parts : ( 1 ) judges ' commissions are to be made for as long as they behave themselves , implying that if they misbehave they may be dismissed by the Crown ; ( 2 ) they may be removed by the Crown on an Address of both Houses , even though they have not misbehaved themselves . |