Example sentences of "as [indef pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all was well , as everyone could see when big , proud , handsome and scatty-but-obedient Moby launched himself out of the car ( on command , of course ! ) for the video cover photo call . |
| 2 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 3 | The plot , insofar as one could discern it , was both labyrinthine and self-cancellingly ambiguous , built round an interview in a psychiatric hospital between a journalist and the grief-obsessed widow of a German professor who had bequeathed a videotape casting doubt on the official version of Hess 's death . |
| 4 | AT RONNIE SCOTT 's Club last night I was chatting to some of the members , insofar as one could hear one 's self talk above the noise of the musicians , when the subject of London transport came up . |
| 5 | Descent was traced in the female line because when pairing was temporary and informal , it was not possible to reckon it in any other way , as one could only be sure of the identity of the mother of the child , not that of the father . |
| 6 | Later came the ‘ Carry On ’ films , launched by Carry On Sergeant ( 1958 ) , films as defiantly un-Ealing as one could conceive , with their emphasis on the inability of institutions ( army , hospital , school , etc. ) to contain the animal natures and the sheer potential for vulgarity of the humans within . |
| 7 | We went in gingerly but as far as one could tell the floor was solid except for the one strip over the missing bit of beam . |
| 8 | As one could expect , the risk of recurrence in handicaps caused by environmental factors is low . |
| 9 | Also about as close and as meaningful a human contact as one could dream of . |
| 10 | I imagined it as clearly as one could , to the point where I was ready to go out and buy my burial outfit . ’ |
| 11 | It is , in my opinion , as good a Messiah recording as one could wish for . |
| 12 | As one would expect , the recording is as musical as one could wish for . |
| 13 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 14 | If it were mine and I wanted to make serious use of the bass , I 'd probably take the E and A drones off , as one could argue that they do n't do enough on top of the heavier bass strings , which might be better used for playing ‘ proper ’ bass lines . |
| 15 | She was in fact a magnificent figure of a woman , with no sag or spread ; only , nursing the children had given her a fullness of the breasts which would not lessen , although she turned the little Olivia over to a servant with a feeding-bottle as soon as one could be found . |
| 16 | Of course , it is not necessary to press the actual flowers from the birthday celebration itself , as one could just make a picture for the eighteen-year old as a present . |
| 17 | When considering these ideas we saw , in Sir Edward Coke 's idea of the law as ‘ the golden metwand ’ and his articulation of the ‘ artificial reason ’ of the common law , as clear an expression of the ancient conception of the rule of law as one could expect to find . |
| 18 | His reading of this movement is as far removed from Salonen 's with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra as one could wish . |
| 19 | Fidelma was as unlikely a lady 's maid as one could hope to find in a month of Sundays . |
| 20 | Although the interference pattern C and the single hump patterns of B look about as dissimilar from each other as one could imagine , there is in fact a hidden mathematical connection between them . |
| 21 | His attempts failed , and he came to the conclusion that the best that could be achieved was to specify , so far as one could , which observation statements were implied by which non-observation statements ( see the preface to Carnap , 1967 , and Quine , 1969 , p. 77 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 23 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 24 | She is stiff , exceptionally fast and as well mannered and seakindly as one could wish . |
| 25 | When Dermo says ‘ Let's get foonky woonky ’ in his Mancunian draw , it 's as far from a fitting description of their music as one could imagine . |
| 26 | The effects are widely varied and can be static shimmers of colour , rolls comprising crescendos and diminuendos , or simply beaten rhythms , which can be as complex or simple as one could wish . |
| 27 | The harmony is in fact remarkably smooth throughout the piece , and is as rich and vital as one could wish . |
| 28 | One such well found when workmen were levelling the ground in Upper Halling was estimated to have been 200 ft deep , and bricked as far down as one could see . |
| 29 | When Dermo says ‘ Let's get foonky woonky ’ in his Mancunian draw , it 's as far from a fitting description of their music as one could imagine . |
| 30 | However , both staff agree Miss Hall fitted in as well as anyone could in the circumstances . |