Example sentences of "as anyone could " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , both staff agree Miss Hall fitted in as well as anyone could in the circumstances . |
| 2 | Built around this album , The The at the Town & Country provided as near perfect a late-Eighties rock show as anyone could want . |
| 3 | The view is as good as anyone could hope , yet each time it is different . |
| 4 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 5 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 6 | As many straining muscles as anyone could bear , and some attractive flares too |
| 7 | André Previn has described Karajan as ‘ the great motivator ’ ; Ashkenazy has called him ‘ a great intuitive musician who communicates as well as anyone could imagine ’ . |
| 8 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 9 | John Nott said that the nuclear submarine Dreadnought was going to be scrapped as soon as anyone could think of a way of doing it and the US and USSR declined to consider each other 's plans for nuclear disarmament . |
| 10 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 11 | Britain had exercised tight control over the entry of aliens for as long as anyone could remember and , anyway , there had been little contact between Germany and Britain for at least nine months . |
| 12 | Midnight was as foreign as anyone could be . |
| 13 | The name Mad Axe is about as inappropriate as anyone could imagine . |
| 14 | For as long as anyone could remember the council had been overwhelmingly Labour , and all the MPs came from the ranks of the party . |
| 15 | On then through a majestic , but by no means pompous Fantasia and its tremendously witty , quicksilver Fugue , to a compulsive and dazzling Toccata in F and ending with as powerful and seamlessly fluent account of the Passacaglia as anyone could wish for . |
| 16 | The Hepburns proved hardly more reliable , but did keep a hold on the castle and — so far as anyone could keep a hold on such a region — the lordship of Liddesdale . |
| 17 | All he needed — as far as anyone could make out from the hogsheads of salted pilchards that were assembled in two separate groups at the harbour — was one more good catch and victory , together with Martha 's hand , would be his . |
| 18 | The food filled a hole and that was as much as anyone could say for it , or maybe anything would have tasted like sawdust right then . |
| 19 | This was , as far as anyone could remember , the first , and last , occasion on which Richard Branson had allowed sentiment to interfere with business . |
| 20 | Branson was as awed as anyone could expect to be at the first sight of their own Jumbo Jet . |
| 21 | As far as anyone could make out none of the hostages whose lives had been threatened earlier in the year had actually been harmed , but the stream of communiqués from the groups had dried up . |
| 22 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |
| 23 | He was as anxious as anyone could be to get the mine on a proper footing and producing profitably … but it all took time ! |
| 24 | The overall impression had been fully as alarming as anyone could have anticipated . |
| 25 | In as far as anyone could hope to be in the bitterly envious soil of the SIS , Foley was unblemished . |
| 26 | I want to repeat that the line was faint but it was definately Dr Kemp on the phone and that what I wrote was as near as anyone could get to what he said . |
| 27 | They stirred into life just before half-time , when Mickey Lewis came as close as anyone could to scoring |