Example sentences of "[adv] as they [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause . |
| 2 | To use an analogy from short sight : people who wear glasses are relieved of the effects of their short sight for as long as they continue to wear them and for as long as they remember that there are still some things ( such as seeing clearly underwater ) that they can not do even if they are wearing glasses . |
| 3 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family , so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from , then usually the Parish Registers and things like the Census Returns over the last hundred years are usually able to help them . |
| 4 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got some , something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from . |
| 5 | Nor do they even care very much about their state of liquidity , so long as they think that they can force the banks to bail them out . |
| 6 | So long as they understand that there 's this also the erm you know er said to me , Oh it 's just English sort of said differently . |
| 7 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 8 | So long as they understand or we have communicated to them , why we want them to do that . |
| 9 | Nor does the fact that , so long as they consider that the affairs of the business they own are being conducted well enough on their behalf , owners do not choose to exercise their ultimate authority , provide any reason for supposing either that companies would be better managed if trade unions were implicated in management or that owners would acquiesce in the assumption , in whole or in part , of their rights by any other party — let alone by one whose essential interests are often opposed to their own . |
| 10 | For the social sciences have more to gain from each other than they have to lose , and the precise origin and pedigree of new findings and theories is of little importance so long as they extend and expand our understanding of the world . |
| 11 | That OR play a team like Aston Villa home or away as they try and win whatever … so you always get open games . |
| 12 | It 's a lovely world , beautiful world but it 's the people in it you see who are spoiling things so much and I do n't understand youngsters you see but because young people erm there , there was a time when youngsters just er do just as they like and they were n't reprimanded by the parents , whereas my parents were very strict you see and it did n't do me any harm and I 'm glad now that they were . |
| 13 | It had taken a war to do that , Vi realized ; though she would n't mind betting that on the day peace came , all the caring would end and people would go back to minding their own business again , just as they had before it started . |
| 14 | Just as they shape and tear clear |
| 15 | It means rather that people act as though they know the principle just as they act as though they know the rules of grammar — though very few people can even begin to formulate them , and nobody can formulate them completely . |
| 16 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 17 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 18 | There are a number of issues which still concern me about continuing education for students with disabilities , just as they did when I entered college life — for example , the fear and ignorance that often surrounds this seemingly homogeneous condition known as ‘ disability ’ , and the unmitigated prejudice and stereotyping of people who do not ‘ fit ’ into a mythical category commonly known as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 19 | The blue-greens , therefore , flourish uncropped just as they did when they were the most advanced form of life anywhere in the world . |
| 20 | They would be cooked into a greasy stew with vegetables and served up looking exactly as they did when they were raw : pale and nauseatingly realistic , with the toes and claws intact . |
| 21 | The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains . |
| 22 | As soon as they knew that Bella had been assigned to her , the other two trainees cornered Marie in the canteen and briefed her on what to expect . |
| 23 | Most women go for it as soon as they hear that he 's a bachelor . |
| 24 | Steps should be taken to eliminate conflicts of interest as soon as they arise and fee-sharing with non-lawyers should not be allowedamendment being required here to permit MDPs . |
| 25 | That one of Selby 's you know it was fine until they put an extension in just er a key station as soon as they did that this one started acting up , so he said it 's only since we did that , he said it happened the day after we put that in , I said okay , disconnected it , still did it , disconnected it at the , end here , still did it , erased it from the program so it did n't even know it existed , still did it |
| 26 | All children have fads at different times which resolve as quickly as they arrive and so it can be difficult for parents to determine where they should start to draw the line . |
| 27 | Yegor and Brightness kept close company yesterday as they swam and floated around the pool , occasionally rammed by the dolphins who appeared to be jealous of the new arrivals . |
| 28 | They low as they push and shove . |
| 29 | He glanced up as they approached and gave Melissa a distant nod without interrupting his progress up and down the small patch of grass . |
| 30 | They both cried out as they reached and went beyond that white-hot explosion , holding tight as they crested the wave and slowly drifted back to reality . |