Example sentences of "as [pron] can [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'll survive as long as I can sponge off urbane socialites like you , Bunny . ’ |
| 2 | That 's a point I was going to make , but as far as I can tell in en masse , the main , the main nominated bodies have been of political parties . |
| 3 | As far as I can make out , all we have done so far is talk about it and we have not even done very much of that . |
| 4 | But he was an American citizen , born in the States as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ As far as I can make out no one has yet said conclusively that this man is Greg Martin' , she argued . |
| 6 | As far as I can make out , Deanes does n't believe that young people should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong . |
| 7 | ‘ As far as I can make out from the little she said about what actually happened , the man who kidnapped them , there was only one at that point , was hidden in the back of their car when they got in . |
| 8 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 9 | Following a time-honoured tradition of psychiatric categories , she elaborates the ‘ bereavement response ’ to diagnosis into a farrago of stages ( none of whose terms , as far as I can make out , has ever been defined ) : ( 1 ) ‘ Shock ’ , ( 2 ) ‘ panic ’ , ( 3 ) ‘ Denial ’ , ( 4 ) ‘ Grief ’ , ( 5 ) ‘ Guilt ’ , ( 6 ) ‘ Anger ’ ( in general ) , ( 7 ) ‘ Anger Against professionals ’ , ( 8 ) ‘ Bargaining ’ and finally ( 9 ) ‘ Acceptance ’ . |
| 10 | As far as I can make out , we 've already passed where it 's supposed to have stopped . |
| 11 | There 's a flower bed of sorts over by the fence but the flowers look to be on their last legs , as far as I can make out . |
| 12 | ‘ Only Nicola herself , as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 13 | The keys to the Cathedral were widely distributed as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ No — as far as I can make out it was hidden in it . |
| 15 | Actually , I would n't mind at all , because as far as I can make out Walter was an amiable scamp . |
| 16 | However , it seems that as far as I can make out from the correspondence , the Commissionaires are split in their opinion as to the legality of action of the German government . |
| 17 | They just r r rammed their way and you had an man the they had a man they tell me I I 've never seen one But erm this was as far as I can make out er by the They had a man standing by you see with a a spanner and er gave it a quarter turn every time it hammered the the drill sort of hit the rock , went into the and hammered . |
| 18 | ‘ He is not — nor is he likely to be as far as I can make out — although Matt dropped a hint that there had been someone at one stage . |
| 19 | In so far as I can make out the policy of the Labour party , it is to give the business rate back to local authorities . |
| 20 | As far as I can make out , the hon. and learned Gentleman has just created a precedent by telling the House that , in the two wars in which we have been involved , it was — to use his word — ’ inconceivable ’ that the Government would have used nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | ‘ As far as I can make out , ’ Blunt said , ‘ the girl was in the fields under our dog-fight , and somebody 's bullets hit her . ’ |
| 22 | ( 87 ) He appears to be unaware of after-image phenomena and , so far as I can make out , puts forward an explanation , instead , which says that movement can be perceived when no object is seen to move ! |
| 23 | And underneath that thought ( I think ! ) is another one another underblanket , insulating the underblanket above and which , so far as I can make out through the layers on top of it , runs something like this : |
| 24 | You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure . |
| 25 | But that , as far as I can make out , is the only thing that I 've benefited by , you know , with them being in . |
| 26 | Well and the fact that it was just their garden , and as far as I can make out it was simply that garden , it would suggest that she 's fallen out with some kids or something like that or somebody and yeah . |
| 27 | as far as I can make out it 's a different Roger to what she knows . |
| 28 | As far as I can make out we 're up to , we 're up to the darts competition |
| 29 | Well the only thing we have a problem on ‘ Sonnet ’ with , Luke , so far as I can see anyway , and I know Jeff agrees with me on this — right Jeff ? — and so does Jim incidentally , Luke , ’ said Joe , ‘ is the form . ’ |
| 30 | Writes all day long , but as far as I can see never sells a word . |