Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] as [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure you do n't put the ice directly on the skin as you could burn the area — wrap it in a tea towel or an old shirt first . |
| 2 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 3 | On then through a majestic , but by no means pompous Fantasia and its tremendously witty , quicksilver Fugue , to a compulsive and dazzling Toccata in F and ending with as powerful and seamlessly fluent account of the Passacaglia as anyone could wish for . |
| 4 | He should go back to Buttermere , go to Mary , tell her as much of the truth as she could bear and marry her . |
| 5 | The scenes-of-crime van was parked as near the site as it could get , planks had been laid on the ground approaching and under the scaffolding to preserve whatever evidence there might be , and the area where the body was had been screened off . |
| 6 | The little creature was sitting as far back in the cage as he could get , obviously frightened at the attention he was receiving . |
| 7 | But this was because it was one-sided , they used to lock it from the outside and there was a catch on the inside as they could put in . |
| 8 | It looked cool in there , peaceful , and it was as far away from Luke Denner and the barn as she could get . |
| 9 | Now the Charskys were scraping together , mostly from abroad , as many books on the subject as they could get . |
| 10 | George was my favourite character in the book as I could feel what he felt inside me . |
| 11 | Much to my disgust I then found myself as far from the sea as I could get — Heathrow Airport , which was just in its infancy but beginning to grow rapidly with the postwar boom in air travel . |
| 12 | German unification , as severe a jolt to the system as you could imagine , obliged the Bundesbank , the system 's de facto anchor , to adopt a monetary policy that was at odds with the needs of its partners . |
| 13 | There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get . |
| 14 | It was as near to a compliment as he could manage . |
| 15 | It was as green a light as you could get for the never-ending demands for U-turns from Mr Gould , followed by several Shadow Cabinet colleagues . |
| 16 | And that 's a pity as he could expect to open his international goal account against tiny San Marino . |
| 17 | As much a sport as you could call erm |
| 18 | Out here is dark and lonely , and as convenient a place as they could wish for to stick a knife in and leave me cold . |
| 19 | It was as good a place as he could hope to find . |
| 20 | There was a big double door kept permanently open between the two rooms , and it was as comfortable a place as you could imagine . |
| 21 | The ten diagonal chimneys rising from the steep pantiled roof are the finishing touch , making Allerthorpe as grand a farmhouse as you could find in all Yorkshire . |
| 22 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 23 | These are the limestone arres , and as unwelcoming a site as you could think of for a new resort . |
| 24 | All contemporary accounts of Constanze 's character , except those originating from Leopold and Nannerl Mozart ( neither of whom ever really accepted her ) , together with the evidence of Mozart 's own letters to her , confirm that she made him as good a wife as he could have wished . |
| 25 | Not until this very moment , she realised ruefully , flashing him as calm a smile as she could manage . |
| 26 | No , I 'd say that wife of his was as unsuitable a sick-nurse as you could find . ’ |
| 27 | By the time he called it a day , he had played in 60 Tests and taken 249 wickets at 23 , and like all of his fast-bowling colleagues had benefited from being one of a quartet as he could operate in short spells and rest more often . |
| 28 | ‘ Thank you , ’ snorted Clare in as ungrateful a manner as she could manage , swept her copy contemptuously off the desk , and stalked out of the room with a moderately successful attempt at dignity . |
| 29 | Lansdowne and Law could only accede with as good a grace as they could muster ; the party was therefore committed to a full policy of imperial preference , but food taxes would be excluded unless approved by a second general election . |
| 30 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ I said in as casual a voice as I could muster , and as the words left my lips a strange and wonderful thing happened . |