Example sentences of "[adv] as [pers pn] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |
| 2 | The celebrations of selflessness and sacrifice are much as they were in the wartime films , but this time there seems little point in asserting them , nothing to be argued for . |
| 3 | Hardy 's study , reconstructed in the County Museum in Dorchester along with other memorabilia , loses none of its fascination after repeated visits , and the splendid High Street remains in its outline much as it was in Hardy 's lifetime . |
| 4 | erm One very important house is erm what is now the Newman Mobray Bookshop , and that of course is still very much as it was in the 17th Century . |
| 5 | Most ceremonies take place in a synagogue , but can be performed anywhere so long as they are under a chuppah ( wedding canopy ) . |
| 6 | So long as they are on a well-drained surface above ground-water level , moisture from above will not harm them , and clamps may be built outside anywhere sheltered from strong winds . |
| 7 | But , as long as they are in my hands , I can not bring myself to destroy any more , or anything written by you . |
| 8 | While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’ |
| 9 | The rest are harder to get registered — designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and dubbed jubilee kiosks , they were mass-produced until 1968 — but they are likely to survive so long as they are in good condition and in ‘ heritage locations ’ ( that is , near the house of somebody ready to give BT a hard time if it tries to take them away ) . |
| 10 | So long as they 're on strike you can keep their wages , ca n't you ? |
| 11 | This scheme provided for a mixed system of public and private pensions , with many of the better paid and more secure groups of workers able to ‘ contract out ’ into private schemes so long as they were at least as good as the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme ( SERPS ) . |
| 12 | So long as they were in favour , they were free to feather their nests , which Andrei did as industriously as anyone else . |
| 13 | She is now reasonably well as long as she is at home , but car journeys and other people 's houses usually bring her symptoms on again . |
| 14 | We have a resource which Jeremiah did n't have , but St–Paul did — the companionship of the Holy Spirit , to be the strength when our work leads to tears , and to be the encourager whatever we do and wherever we do it , so long as it is for Him . |
| 15 | This has now become particularly important , since recent laws have made the disturbance or destruction of a badger sett illegal , so long as it is in regular use . |
| 16 | yeah that 'll do , so long as it 's on there good boy , so what one have you decided to go with then ? |
| 17 | Desperate in his anxiety to leave Bristol , almost any available house now seemed acceptable to Coleridge so long as it was near Tom Poole . |
| 18 | I 'll run that for as long as you 're off the streets , and then , when you 've solved your problems , I 'll close Stepping Out and we 'll do Time Out together . ’ |
| 19 | So that erm although you 're entitled to what a native of that country would get , so long as you 're in the European Community , even that can vary . |
| 20 | I knew I would never finish a book so long as I was on the North Shore , either . |
| 21 | There will be ‘ no comics , no horoscopes , no handicapping of horses ’ so long as he is in charge . |
| 22 | He then makes the kind of silly gaffe — getting his hair cut while Air Force One sits at Los Angeles airport , closing down two runways — that will be the stuff of jokes about him for as long as he is in public life . |
| 23 | The tenant may exercise his right to remove tenant 's fixtures so long as he is in possession as a tenant , whether under the original contract of tenancy or a new tenancy or by holding over ( New Zealand Government Property Corp v H M & S Ltd ) . |
| 24 | So long as he was in the limelight , he could n't be attacked or abducted . |
| 25 | She had reached a zenith of feeling , and really did n't care which hole he was shafting so long as he was inside her . |
| 26 | Somehow I never dreamed that they might get involved , especially as they are in London . |
| 27 | Her modesty in the face of such popularity is endearing , especially as it is for her self-confidence in front of canvas and tv camera for which she is probably best known ! |
| 28 | The surgeon does n't think it will take long , especially as he 's in remarkable physical shape . ’ |
| 29 | He was black , and perhaps as I was in trousers , he thought I might have known Sir Richard Whittington . |
| 30 | It is bad enough as it is at the moment . |