Example sentences of "as they go along " in BNC.

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1 Time spent on this may be looked up as an investment in that if essential job elements are identified , then the people involved in the recruitment process will be less inclined to develop the criteria as they go along .
2 There are no official rules and people tend to make them up as they go along .
3 Many of the alleged ‘ hidden costs ’ of distributed systems are are estimates of the informal training and problem-solving given to end users — yet in most companies , end users learn the in-house-preferred word processor or database program as they go along , asking one of their colleagues when they get stuck .
4 In Western Europe legislators have ceded sweeping powers to make detailed regulations to central government executives , allowing them in effect to write up the law ‘ as they go along ’ in a discretionary way .
5 Even very young children can get into the habit of jotting down the sources of their information as they go along .
6 Shrews and tenrecs emit echolocating calls as they go along their runs .
7 And in my view what they could n't achieve on that night in Parliament in the nineteen forties is now being achieved by stealth , slicing bits and pieces away as they go along .
8 You know there were no difference in them only er as they go along now they 're putting plastic rails up instead of being wooden , you see 'em there .
9 They make them up as they go along .
10 But , in the final resort , EC government leaders can make the rules up as they go along . "
11 Some like to have the item fully composed before they begin teaching others prefer to compose and teach parts , discarding and replacing as they go along until it takes shape .
12 They make them up as they go along .
13 He says that the dialogue is fun — much of it is made up as they go along !
14 It ca n't be assumed that they will just learn and pick things up as they go along .
15 Both RTS trainees and recruits to the new NVQ scheme complete a workbook , are assessed by a store instructor as they go along and receive the Retail Certificate .
16 The staff are n't trained counsellors and Mr Higgins admits they 're learning to deal with caller 's emotional problems as they go along , or refer them to other organisations such as the Samaritans .
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