Example sentences of "[adj] as we [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 2 | This is , of course , wrong as we could have guessed on the basis of our experience with forces acting upon capacitor plates . |
| 3 | We have a duty to be as clear as we can , and to articulate at all times what we are trying to do , in at least a general sense , and it will help us to ask ( even if we can not always easily answer ) what the result might be in terms of student ability or behaviour . |
| 4 | Chemistry it 's not as high as we would like , and certainly not as high as erm our status in research erm would suggest erm and we feel that the perhaps there 's some image-building still to be done in this field . |
| 5 | We shall need to be more flexible in the way we handle retirement , and as generous as we can be to what is fortunately a declining proportion of the retired — that is , those who rely entirely on their State pension . |
| 6 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 7 | But I do agree that people out there must keep wondering how do they know that we are as , as it were , as slim as we can be . |
| 8 | Despite winning the election , ‘ we are not as popular as we should be , ’ he proclaimed ; a truism which met with some ungrudging assent . |
| 9 | This is a budget Chairman that builds on the achievements of the last four years , the care for our schools and it takes into account that the future will not be as rosy as we would like and allows for contingencies . |
| 10 | In a way I suppoise it was quite fortunate as we would have been without speed and wallace , who have now got a longer recovery period — as have all the other cripples that we 're carrying . |
| 11 | We 'll make it as easy as we can for you . |
| 12 | ( A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing that the universe is not as simple as we might have thought ! ) |
| 13 | We 've kept it as simple simple as we can . |
| 14 | So the Lipsey diagram ( Figure 3.1 ) is as simple as we could plausibly manage , and it is not a definite guide . |
| 15 | Time and financial constraints , as well as a recent rapid increase in student numbers ( 90 in 1991 , 125 in 1992 ) , mean that we can not make this as wide-ranging as we would like . |
| 16 | Today we should have met up with the rest of the tribe but we are n't as fit as we might be . |
| 17 | We try to set ourselves specific aims and objectives and when it comes to marking scripts , for example , we have a quite specific mark scheme which has been very carefully thrased out , not only with examiners , but with certain school teachers , which we try to make tie this down as be as objective as we can , but there 's always and element of subjectivity . |
| 18 | After all , the best washing-up liquid in the world ca n't keep your skin as soft as we can . |
| 19 | Although we 're working er all the time to keep security as tight as we can at the John Radcliffe , er the scheme is going to give us the ability to challenge members of staff , legitimate members of staff , as we currently do , er and they will then have to provide , produce the card , er so we can then assess whether they are or are not a member of staff . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll be as quick as we can . ’ |
| 21 | And I 'll get on to the and we 'll get them an appointment out to you as quick as we can . |
| 22 | We 'll be as quick as we can . |
| 23 | Hope we 'll get it organized as quick as we can . |
| 24 | We 'll be available on N T erm I do n't think I can say concurrently with the availability of N T cos A no one knows the availability of N T and secondly there will inevitabl be some lag , but it will be very soon as quick as we can make it after that . |
| 25 | As quick as we could . |
| 26 | We 're out there riding as hard as we can and if that gives any of the supporters any sort of er consolation , I do n't know if it does or not , but it — we 're really giving our best all the time and er win , lose or draw you 'll always find us every time we 've got a doing our best and er although often some people might shout and scream and give us a hard time , er it 's not for , for lack of trying , I mean nobody wants to finish last and er me even more than most , so just get behind us and shout and scream and we 'll try our hardest . |
| 27 | I mean , I am not playing with words when I say this , but it wo n't improve as fast as we would have liked it to do because of the financial situation . |
| 28 | We squat on the ground , eating our lunch as we go , and work as fast as we can for eleven hours every day . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the coverage in England is not as widespread as we would like , leaving many areas without the benefit of a formally functioning Association . |
| 30 | ‘ On the 7th and 10th of Feb. we recd your Letters of the 25th of Septr and 6th of Oct : They were a source of the highest gratification to us all , but neither Letter was so full or explanatory as we could wish and from the slight mention of Mrs. Gould we are fearful that her health is not much improved . |