Example sentences of "as [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount of new housing in Northern Ireland , as everyone can see , has changed the housing situation from one of the worst in Europe to one of the best in Europe . |
| 2 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 3 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 4 | My concern over this for almost as long as I can remember . |
| 5 | ‘ She has n't got any extensions as far as I can see , ’ I said . |
| 6 | ‘ So far as I can see it 's practically certain Mr Merrivale was in there with her early on in the night , ’ said Ethel . |
| 7 | ‘ As far as I can see only Mr Merrivale is in the clear ’ , went on Mary . |
| 8 | Actually , as far as I can gather , it 's just their jargon for a bedsit house . |
| 9 | As far as I can see , the only way to do this is to adopt a behaviouristic approach to this knowledge and characterize it as an ability to discriminate visual objects . |
| 10 | I wonder if you are using ( in lectures ) a statement I remember you making in talk , but not so far as I can recall , in print . |
| 11 | In postwar Britain , the clothes , accents , and diction of the siblings may have changed , but , so far as I can judge , the suffocating insular coziness is just the same . |
| 12 | Having the crust to attempt a poem in 100 or 120 cantos long after all mankind has been commanded never again to attempt a poem of any length , I have to stagger as I can . |
| 13 | When I insist on that priority , as I can tell you I most certainly will — with the full support of the Prime Minister in doing so — then I 'm sure my colleagues will see the point of that . |
| 14 | ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said . |
| 15 | I 've always tried to play as intensely as I can . |
| 16 | ‘ So far as I can see , he only thinks about snooker , his girlfriend and pop music . |
| 17 | Like , this estate here , the people here have always been hostile towards the police as long as I can remember . |
| 18 | I am opposed to judicial corporal punishment , always have been and , so far as I can see , always shall be . |
| 19 | I am terrified and run home as fast as I can . |
| 20 | So , as far as I can work it out , they found it was cool to go round to Wally 's and hang out , particularly as the school was only just round the corner from his place So they 'd sit there doing very little and getting bored . |
| 21 | And , as far as I can remember , he did it . |
| 22 | My ethos was I 've got a lot of money , but I 've got to look after the people as far as I can who have helped to produce it and I am going to make it grow bigger for our successors . |
| 23 | ‘ Mink are unnecessary killers and have a habit of decimating fish stocks if left to breed at the side of fisheries , so I will help the local clubs to get rid of them as soon as I can , ’ he added . |
| 24 | I can not understand this as I can not see any detrimental effect on the carp . |
| 25 | In the years we have been going to the Arctic ( at least one summer and one winter trip now for as long as I can remember ) , we have acquired odd niggles . |
| 26 | I said ‘ O.K. , I can only work as much as I can physically , no more . ’ |
| 27 | I want to play as many different roles as I can possibly manage . |
| 28 | It 's really flipping cold today , so I get dressed as quick as I can . |
| 29 | I walk as quick as I can so Mr Jackson wo n't find me . |
| 30 | I try and eat the rest of the doughnut as neat as I can but I end up all sugary and sticky . |