Example sentences of "[adv] as they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much as they admired him and loved him , he seemed to have let them down . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 4 | cos I do n't mind what they have so long as they eat it |
| 5 | 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ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 6 | 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ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 7 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 12 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 13 | The sovereign is under a constitutional duty to accept the advice of her ministers tendered through her chief minister so long as they command her confidence — so long , that is , as they command a majority in Parliament . |
| 14 | For as long as they continue they are the issue , rather than a grievance for which many people might instinctively have some sympathy . |
| 15 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 16 | " I do n't care chat becomes of me , So long as they sing me that sheet melody , Yip-I-Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay , Yip-I Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay . " |
| 17 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 18 | On the evidence of the autumn action — and last summer 's Lions tour to which Scots made a huge contribution — Scotland can win the championship , especially as they play their ‘ difficult ’ games against France and England at Murrayfield . |
| 19 | But members turned the application down as they felt it would cause more late-night trouble . |
| 20 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 21 | Today their conversation was solely work , and both seemed happy to keep it so as they made their way to the circuit . |
| 22 | They drove back to Alnwick in complete silence , broken only as they reached their suite , by Roman . |
| 23 | The larvae undergo a complex cycle of 12 stages in almost as many days , making their way back inshore as they reach their adult form . |
| 24 | A chorus of ‘ Noes ’ greeted the coroner 's demands though Athelstan noticed that the hospitallers looked away as they mumbled their responses . |
| 25 | Painting was to become intellectual , and the painters would depict the world not as they saw it , but as they knew it to be . |
| 26 | Sister Mary Leahy , who organised the prayer week at Seacroft , explained the purpose of these personal interviews ; ‘ Prayer is a relationship with God , so as a prayer guide , I would want to help people to recognise God in their lives — relating person to person — speaking to God and listening to him — coming to God just as they are and not as they think they ought to be . ’ |
| 27 | That 's the important thing about discipline , to make them see themselves as they really are , not as they think they are . |
| 28 | He merely notes that the bad news for technological illiterates is that the world is not as they think it is , and if they are interested in the truth his book will fill some gaps . |
| 29 | Political theories and doctrines are both affected by political conditions and the needs of practical action , just as they influence them in turn ; and changes in these conditions are largely responsible not only for the more or less continuous process of reinterpretation of the ideologies of political parties and movements , but also for the more profound revision of theoretical conceptions . |
| 30 | She saw them just as they saw her , and waved to them — with disastrous results . |