Example sentences of "as [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the Land Registration Act 1925 ( s70(1) ) : All registered land shall … be deemed to be subject to such of the following overriding interests as may be for the time being subsisting in reference thereto . |
| 2 | In 1771 , Miller 's successor , William Forsyth , reported to the Garden Committee that Mr Miller , an engraver , desired to view and take plants ‘ as may be of use in the work he is now engaged on ’ . |
| 3 | 2.3 If the Landlord is unable to obtain at a reasonable cost any of the materials referred to in the Building Documents the Landlord may [ ( subject to notifying promptly the Surveyors of its intention to do so ) ] in carrying out the Works substitute for them alternative materials as nearly as may be of the same quality |
| 4 | otherwise than with the left or nearside of the vehicle as close as may be to the edge of the carriageway . |
| 5 | ‘ otherwise than with the left or nearside of the vehicle as close as may be to the edge of the carriageway ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ otherwise than with the left or nearside of the vehicle as close as may be to the edge of the carriageway ’ . |
| 7 | This point was proved by showing in evidence that the vehicle was the wrong way round , i.e. the offside or right of the vehicle was next to the kerb or that the nearside was not as close as may be to the kerb . |
| 8 | 9. ( 1 ) After the initial allotment any shares proposed to be issued shall first be offered to the members in proportion as nearly as may be to the number of the existing shares held by them respectively . |
| 9 | 9. ( 1 ) After the initial allotment any shares proposed to be issued shall first be offered to the members in proportion as nearly as may be to the number of the existing shares held by them respectively . |
| 10 | First on the list of their declared objectives was ‘ The establishment of a store for the sale of provisions , clothing etc. ’ ; and third ‘ To commence the manufacture of such articles as the Society may determine upon , for the employment of such members as may be without employment , or who may be suffering in consequence of repeated reductions in their wages . ’ |
| 11 | For the good student , therefore , there is nothing more important in examination technique than dividing up his time as equally as may be between all the questions . |
| 12 | If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’ |
| 13 | Both of them are ‘ such knowledge of effects or appearances , as we acquire by true ratiocination from the knowledge we have first of their causes or generations : And again , of such causes or generations as may be from knowing first their effects . ’ |
| 14 | Mary paused , some distance from the little settlement of Buttermere , and steadied herself inside this deeply protected , world 's end valley , the home as might be of the hidden enchantments of fairy tales as Mr Fenton had said . |
| 15 | Hum. , 1908–13 ) for the purpose of giving graduates of the College opportunity to travel at such time in their careers as might be of most value to them either by enabling them to broaden their experience of other countries and their peoples or to carry out research . |
| 16 | The roofs were most often not their own : long since , the community had drawn in from its perimeter , sharing its water , its food and its warmth , and distancing itself so far as might be from the walls and the thud of the cannon . |
| 17 | A traveller in the early seventeenth century wrote of a thatched house in Langholm that the wall had ‘ one course of stones , another of sods of earth , a door of wicker rods , and the spider webs hung over our heads as thick as might be in our bed ’ . |
| 18 | The Georgian case was as close as could be to straight annexation , without the pretext of disorder ( although the Turkish army remained an important threat ) . |
| 19 | About as normal as could be with me . |
| 20 | Brave as could be in the cocked-up invasion of Crete and in the Yugoslavian mountains with Tito , he was still just the sort of awkward squaddie no army likes . |
| 21 | That 's when the War was on you see , things got worse , they were all in the family way , all them as could be in it . |
| 22 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 23 | A dull cool summer it had been , as different as could be from the year before . |
| 24 | Whatever Shakespeare 's source or inspiration , Pistol is a brilliant invention , locked as he is in a verse-form and range of reference derived from the heroical plays in the London theatres of the 1580s and 1590s , as far removed as could be from his debased reality . |
| 25 | Had it been a boy , he would have been Arthur , after that toast of all good Cornishmen , the once and future king ; but as she was a girl , she was Jennifer , which was as close as need be to Guinevere . |
| 26 | As already noted , and as will be of some importance later in this inquiry , the temporal feature does not require that the constituents of the causal circumstance be simultaneous . |