Example sentences of "[det] [noun] as they can " in BNC.

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1 Demonstrations of context-specificity do not in themselves establish the correctness of this view as they can be readily interpreted as showing simply that the effects of pre-exposure interfere less with acquisition when conditioning takes place in different context .
2 ‘ Until such times as they can do this , Her Majesty 's Government should get on with the task of governing Northern Ireland in a positive fashion , including the alternative means of returning powers to locally-elected representatives . ’
3 [ Mond is said to have complained , away back in the 1880s , that his company was n't concentrating on chemistry any more but on making money , a complaint perhaps most easily made by those who have already acquired as much money as they can reasonable need . ]
4 I hope the health service 's attitude has changed because anyone suffering from anorexia feels isolated and needs as much support as they can get — from doctors and their family .
5 Try to give people as much responsibility as they can handle ( within reason ) .
6 They plot , they devise stratagems , they cause as much confusion as they can .
7 Critics of the power exercised by parties may perhaps be reminded that they are at liberty to join the party , of their choice , to be active in it and to use there such influence as they can acquire .
8 I 'm given as much independence as they can give me , so I do n't feel I 'm isolated .
9 They tend to be kind and wish to give the candidates as much help as they can , although there is no compulsion on them to cover every detail of the syllabus .
10 However this may not give a learner as much help as they can get from seeing the actions , people , objects and settings location footage will contain .
11 ‘ But they have access to those who are and they 're determined to exert as much influence as they can according to their convictions . ’
12 The meeting recommends the Committee respecting the Lint Miller " to meet with the Lint Miller , and to show him such Evidence as they can recover respecting the weight of fflax in other Countrys — and Endevour to get him to agree to dress & deliver fflax for the same payment and by the same weight , and to report to the next meeting . "
13 I if i , if it 's a pastoral problem I , I think probably the child er should take er such vows as they can .
14 So the idea is idea is that a kind of arms race will develop between the siblings to amplify the signal to get as much back as they can from , from the parent .
15 As I put it in the course of the argument , and as I sincerely believe , ‘ good parenting involves giving minors as much rope as they can handle without an unacceptable risk that they will hang themselves . ’
16 It 's probably where the expression ‘ work like a dog ’ was born ; no wonder they shuffle under the shearing sheds and grab as much sleep as they can when they 're not clambering over sheep 's backs or kicking up the fine , red dust .
17 ‘ Separate beds it is to minimise the infection , as much liquids as they can take , except milk .
18 Where this is the case it is interesting to note that the Access to Personal Files ( Social Services ) Regulations 1989 require local authorities to disclose as much information as they can by omitting names and sensitive information or by other means .
19 We 're aiming it at , at private individuals — people who 've got an interest in the Stock Exchange , and are trying to update their interest and get as much information as they can about it .
20 Tony Carpenter , a dietician , says it 's vital they drink as much fluid as they can get .
21 It also sort of encourages them to farm as much land as they can to presumably rent more out .
22 With a fast growing population , virtually no international aid , and a devastating war to get over , the Vietnamese need to wring as much productivity as they can out of every patch of serviceable land and every drop of water .
23 There are two girl keepers who spend as much time as they can with him and are giving him so many titbits that he 's getting thoroughly spoiled .
24 They say they will spend as much time as they can together in the interests of their children .
25 In the lakes so , they 're gon na spend as much time as they can round the
26 In this paper it is on these dimensions as they can exist between sets of managers and workers ( as systems ) that I focus .
27 Once on the needles , the two pieces of knitting ca n't ‘ creep ’ in relation to each other as they can when sewing by hand or machine , so your horizontal bands will match exactly .
28 Promotional tools used by Historic Scotland include the Scottish Explorer Ticket , which allows visitors to see as many properties as they can within either 7 or 14 days .
29 many children as they can before they get back to where their group is positioned .
30 All women have as many babies as they can manage : four , three , two , one , none at all : as many as they can afford — physically , emotionally , practically .
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