Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadly , they break down into two main types : one where the water is heated and stored hot in a hot water cylinder or tank ; the other where cold water is heated instantaneously as it is drawn off . |
| 2 | People can not be photographed well at a quarter of a second … = The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is poised with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 3 | The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is posed with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 4 | It is natural to look for causative factors , and we have treated causality much as it is treated in experimental research generally ( see Plutchik , 1974 : 174–87 ) . |
| 5 | They may get away with a trick or two , but only for as long as nobody is watching too closely . |
| 6 | So long as yu is living an yu want eat food |
| 7 | So long as you know how far it is to the line , and so long as someone is calling out the time to the start , you just need to judge your speed correctly . |
| 8 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently . |
| 9 | When no specific instruction are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently . |
| 10 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently , Guidelines on layouts are published in the British Standards Institution booklet ‘ Guide to Typewriting ’ ( PD 6506 : 1982 ) . |
| 11 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it is followed consistently . |
| 12 | Mr Green , 55 , author of the definitive Grand National chronicle , A Race Apart , added : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the present starting system so long as it is operated properly . |
| 13 | Mr Green , 55 , author of the Grand National chronicle , A Race Apart , said : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the present starting system so long as it is operated properly . |
| 14 | There may be nothing behind it , but it does n't make any difference so long as it is honoured . |
| 15 | We should prefer to see it being done in London so long as it is done by male labour , it is no matter where . |
| 16 | 8.1 Neither party shall be under any liability to the other if and for so long as it is prevented from or delayed in performing any of its obligations under this Agreement by reason of circumstances beyond its reasonable control . |
| 17 | Sport encompasses things like hunting , all sorts of hunting : fox , hare otter , camel or whatever , just so long as it is conducted with hounds . |
| 18 | Borrowing is looked upon as a natural part of everyday life so long as it is kept within bounds . |
| 19 | Borrowing is looked upon as a natural part of everyday life so long as it is kept within bounds . |
| 20 | It matters little whether there is much evidence of individualism creating achievement or loss so long as it is believed that it does . |
| 21 | long as it is sealed , but if it escapes in large quantities , when a hole is drilled for example , the tiny fibres can cause serious lung diseases . |
| 22 | So long as it is confined to strict military targets — roads , bridges , supply depots , gun emplacements — bombing need not alienate either public opinion in the West or the ordinary Serbs who must help change the minds of their stubborn , self-styled leaders . |
| 23 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 24 | Equally , in the words of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills ( 1936 P.C. ) ‘ there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter ; a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description . ’ |
| 25 | As Lord Wright said in Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd [ 1936 ] AC 85 : It may also be pointed out that there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter : a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description , eg woollen undergarments , a hot-water bottle , a second-hand reaping machine , to select a few obvious illustrations . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend agree , however , that for 20 years he and his predecessors have pursued the will-of-the-wisp of power-sharing , devolved government ; and that , for as long as it is pursued , the IRA will believe , rightly or wrongly , that it will get us out in the end ? |
| 27 | Any gift or campaign contribution is legal so long as it is reported . |
| 28 | It would be silly therefore to place , for example , contemporary imperialism , so long as it is directed against ‘ third persons ’ and is a tool for ‘ devouring ’ and ‘ expropriating ’ them , under the heading of ‘ primitive accumulation ’ . |
| 29 | At 60% of the price of a German worker , the Briton evidently has his advantages — so long as he is trained , managed and financed by foreigners . |
| 30 | Thus , for example , in regard to proceedings in court , the mere absence of UK qualifications will not disqualify an EC lawyer from acting so long as he is instructed with and acts in conjunction with a UK lawyer . |