Example sentences of "[noun] as they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took such action as they could to prevent further distribution . |
| 2 | She wanted a church wedding with as many of the trimmings as they could possibly afford . |
| 3 | The bowmen slipped backwards from tree to tree , fitting and shooting as they could , the lancers aimed for the men rather than the horses , and brought down three in the first onslaught . |
| 4 | It was her opinion , she told Rory , that there was something awful funny going on , that this western city in the poorest part of a poor country should have such places , and such shops as they could see all round them , and such terrific style . |
| 5 | The South Metropolitan undertook such maintenance as they could in Sutton depôt . |
| 6 | He said the firm could not afford to ignore such losses as they could put the jobs of 1,300 employees in jeopardy . |
| 7 | Members of the medical faculty said they would fax press reports of the Peking democracy movement to as many recipients as they could find in China , to overcome censorship . |
| 8 | Was it fear of not being able to perform as well at this new skill as they could with the composing-stick ? |
| 9 | Ramsay explained that his lordship 's goodbrother , the Earl of Moray , had desired to see his sister the Countess whilst in the vicinity , as was but natural ; and while there , they had learned that the defences of the castle were being strengthened , in view of possible attack by the English , and they had offered such small help as they could in this excellent work in the realm 's interest . |
| 10 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well , in this particular experiment , what the experimenters did was , when the parental birds left the nest , they stuffed the erm , the chicks as full with worms as they could possibly stuff it . |
| 13 | Salvage from sailing ships was an important additional income for the local people , but ceased with the coming of the steamships as they could stand out to sea in a storm . |
| 14 | The Hydro Board were playing tunes with their dams , and did a great deal to lessen the impact by holding back as much water as they could . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Students were everywhere , on bicycles , on foot , gowns blowing in the wind , most of them I suppose cramming in as much of their studies as they could before call-up . |
| 17 | For the lay reader , Geoffrey Boumphrey 's Town and country tomorrow ( 1940 ) had three sections : ‘ Things as they are ’ , ‘ Things as they could be ’ and ‘ Things as they should be ’ , and the contrasts were made to speak for themselves . |
| 18 | But they admit that these babies had not achieved complete and independent toileting as they could only hold on to their eliminations for a few minutes and needed help to undress and get on the potty . |
| 19 | As far as I can tell , they have all three led blameless lives , had no criminal connection , kept themselves to themselves and as separate from Moslems as they could , and had no occasion to even meet a Zikr , let alone enter into a relationship with one which might lead them to want to kill him . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Friends rang round to remind each other of the vigil and colleagues rallied as many people as they could to come to St Bride 's . |
| 22 | It then had to be left to his governors and his staff colleagues to make such use as they could of any combination of qualities which he revealed . |
| 23 | Painters could work as easily with gems and enamels as they could with oils and watercolours ; sculptors were as adept with gold and silver as they were with marble and bronze . |
| 24 | Lyell saw each biogeographical province as a ‘ centre of creation ’ where new species typical of that province were created from time to time , spreading out from the centre to occupy as much territory as they could . |
| 25 | Now the Charskys were scraping together , mostly from abroad , as many books on the subject as they could get . |
| 26 | Naturally , they exerted as much downward pressure on ex-mill prices as they could . |
| 27 | It is evident from this and other comments , several describing treachery , that he often thought little of the English resistance , and on at least one occasion he did it injustice , saying under 1001 that an immense levy from Somerset and Devon met the raiders at Pinhoe , but fled immediately battle was joined , whereas an independent entry in the A text reports that the English fought with such forces as they could gather , which gives a rather different impression . |
| 28 | They would move in by Christmas and bring as many friends as they could . |
| 29 | One commonly heard complaint from relatives is that ‘ I was told she was too disturbed for the council day centre as they could n't stop her from wandering out ’ , yet ‘ The doctor at the day hospital said they only took short-term cases , people who could get better and move on . ’ |
| 30 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |