Example sentences of "as [pron] [modal v] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can recognize the choice as right ( as I would the choice to prepare for coming danger ) however strongly I am inclined to shut off the brief glimpse in order not to be distracted from present and selfish goals . |
| 2 | ‘ After Stephen was captured I swore to serve the Queen until his release , to obey her commands as I would the King 's . |
| 3 | You got out as quickly as you could the next morning otherwise they could get into your skin . |
| 4 | ‘ I think you should get to know as many people as you can the further up the business you are , ’ he says . |
| 5 | She would sit and answer back , stripping away his pomposity as she would the layers of an onion , before going into a sulk which could last for days . |
| 6 | With the body encased , the top lid — with the merest ghost of a form — was placed over the lip of the main case , as one would the lid of a shoe-box , and soldered with a 3/4-inch iron . |
| 7 | It will help to see what the personal ingredients are , and at what point in the arising of stress they are added in , if we take the story ‘ from the top ’ , and look at it as we might the development of a complicated chemical reaction . |
| 8 | There 's nothing for it now but to get back as fast as we can the way we 've come . ’ |
| 9 | Erm because of having to do everything as much as we can the medieval way , if we were ordinary people and we said we wanted to tile we 'd say , oh well we 'll go out and buy some tiles . |
| 10 | Publishers which are already negotiating in Russia over translation rights will welcome the British Council/Publishers Association scheme — as they will the Russian government 's assurance in London last month that it will repay all the former Soviet Union 's to UK and other Western publishers . |
| 11 | In 1915 Dicey wrote that although federalism possessed a ‘ vague , and therefore the strong and imaginative , charm ’ there is ‘ good reason to fear that the federalisation of the United Kingdom , stimulating as it would the disruptive force of local nationalism , might well arouse a feeling of divided allegiance ’ . |
| 12 | It would be a task for which a court would be ill-equipped , involving as it would the need to consider the interests of the locality as a whole and the plaintiff 's and county council 's plans in respect of it . |
| 13 | When it comes to asking who or what theists consider God to be , on the other hand , any answer must embrace as far as it can the full spectrum of religious opinion . |
| 14 | In many ways , the good arciprete is nostalgic for the days of Stalin and he regards Russian glasnost rather as he would the Vatican bank investing heavily in Durex . |
| 15 | It was the duty of the ruling sultan , at least in principle , to extend so far as he could the area controlled by true believers at the expense of that ruled by Christian infidels . |