Example sentences of "as the [noun sg] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Local Government Act 1929 it was the positive duty of the local authority to recover the whole of the expenses ( or as much as the person could afford ) . |
| 2 | By Edward 's reign it was usual for the monarch to extract from a newly elected bishop or abbot a pension of about 3 or 5 marks for a royal servant until such time as the prelate could promote him to a suitable living . |
| 3 | As fast as the Prince could comply , however , the press were trying to marry him off . |
| 4 | The whole package appears to be aimed at the accomplished user as the beginner could have some difficulty . |
| 5 | Assemblies were the pivot : so long as the king could secure attendance , he could refill his coffers , exercise patronage , and maintain consensus at the same time . |
| 6 | Care should be taken with frost claims as the damage could result from lack of maintenance or the policyholder 's failure to take reasonable precautions to ensure the safety of their property . |
| 7 | Where it was strong , it kept men and women on the land , in so far as the land could give them a living , or sent its excess population along the well-beaten traditional tracks of seasonal migration , like those which took the smallholders of central France to and from the building sites of Paris . |
| 8 | And the day before his weakness waxed great , he ordered the gates of the town to be shut , and went to the Church of St. Peter ; and there the Bishop Don Hieronymo being present , and all the clergy who were in Valencia , and the knights and honourable men and honourable dames , as many as the Church could hold , the Cid Ruydiez stood up , and made a full noble preaching , showing that no man whatsoever , however honourable or fortunate they may be in this world , can escape death ; to which , said he , I am now full near ; and since ye know that this body of mine hath never yet been conquered , nor put to shame , I beseech ye let not this befall it at the end , for the good fortune of man is only accomplished at his end . |
| 9 | The lawyer was a technician , a man who manipulated the judicial system , and he took any case as long as the client could pay the appropriate fee . |
| 10 | Most routine sale and purchase orders will not give rise to such firm commitments , as the entity could cancel them at will without incurring a severe penalty . |
| 11 | Some have suggested that his appointment at Berlin was the result of a compromise by the orchestra , an attempt to secure someone as far removed from Karajan in character , musical and personal , as the world could offer . |
| 12 | This should be resisted as the tenant could find itself paying for the costs of an appeal it did not want to pursue . |
| 13 | In addition , any covenant requiring the tenant to appeal against a refusal of planning permission ( particularly at the cost of the tenant ) should be resisted as the tenant could find itself paying for the cost of the landlord appealing against a refusal of planning permission for the redevelopment of the premises at the end of term , where the tenant may wish to take a renewal of the lease . |
| 14 | There was nothing odd in the stuff , as far as the Inspector could see . |
| 15 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 16 | The Free City of Danzig was advised that it was incompetent to join the International Labour Organisation as the commitment could conflict with Poland 's rights under the Treaty of Versailles . |
| 17 | Although service of a writ out of the jurisdiction with leave placed the defendant within the power of the court , the assumption of jurisdiction was in a sense only provisional , as the defendant could apply to set it aside . |
| 18 | … imagine a fairy chain stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak , as far as the eye could reach , and paid out until it touched the ‘ high places ’ of the earth at a number of ridges , banks , and knowls . |
| 19 | Cross-references to this appendix are given by italic numbers , ( eg 16 ) From Joseph Conrad , The Secret Sharer On my right hand there were lines of fishing-stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences , incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes , and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean ; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach ( 1 ) . |
| 20 | The " eye " , as if with a will of its own , becomes the subject-agent in " as far as the eye could reach " ( 1 ) , " My eye followed the light cloud " ( 6 ) , " the only thing on which the eye could rest ( 4 ) . |
| 21 | Its fragrance possessed the odour of amber , and hyacinths , basils , roses and tulips were blooming as far as the eye could reach . |
| 22 | Outside the kitchen were brambles and thistles as far as the eye could see . |
| 23 | Loud music flooded the room ; on the screen people were dancing , as far as the eye could see . |
| 24 | There were green fields as far as the eye could see . |
| 25 | On either side as far as the eye could see , long lines of children , dwarfed by the adults stooped over the restless machinery , reached or crawled , snatched or darted , in and out of the network of rattling belts and hissing pipes , playing a constant game with death . |
| 26 | As far as the eye could see , the water was a dirty mud colour . |
| 27 | The plain stretched north and south as far as the eye could see and there was no sign of either vegetation or habitation — nothing but dust , rock and sand . |
| 28 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |
| 29 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 30 | My method was to look ahead as far as the eye could see , work out the route mentally , then , leaving the wheelbarrow , test the ground in small sections and mark the way with my feet . |