Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] can [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these outside activities are fine , as long as you can get to them . |
| 2 | A failure to give proper levels of support to informal carers not only reduces their own quality of life and that of the relative or friend they care for , but is also potentially inefficient as it can lead to less personally appropriate care being offered . |
| 3 | But Melville 's claim that James was ‘ vexed by some unkindly medicine ’ sounds more like a comment on sixteenth-century doctors than poisoners ; and his other explanation , that he died ‘ for displeasure ’ — presumably some form of extreme nervous exhaustion — is probably as close as we can get to what happened . |
| 4 | Written by Peter Corrigan , with first-person inserts from JDavies , this handsome book is about as close as one can get to a warts-and-all picture of an ambitious international player . |
| 5 | Really intelligent frogs might wonder if there is something which prevents everything happening all at once , but that 's about as close as they can get to it . |
| 6 | If this leaves the gripper too far from the desired point , the robot tries adjusting each joint a little in turn to see which adjustment moves the torch 's image most quickly towards the point I. It selects the most significant joint and keeps moving this one until the torch 's image is as close as it can get to I ; then it tries adjusting another joint , and so on , until the gripper is close enough . |