Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I explained as succinctly as I could Archie 's difficulty .
2 I learnt to speak French and German fluently , and had passed as much leave as I could travelling about Europe .
3 This basic categorical imperative bids me only act on such a maxim as I can will should become a universal law to which all rational agents conform their behaviour .
4 And that is as much as I can sort of remember .
5 ( You are rarely able to sample rhythms as often as you would like. ) ( a ) Are your 4 hours of observations made in a single session or a number of sessions ? ( b ) If it is a single session , is this at the same time or at different times each day ? ( c ) If it is at different times , then how do you arrange them ? ( d ) If it is a number of sessions , then how many ?
6 Well , no , you can not breed Killifish as you would Zebra Danios or Angelfish and it 's true that some are best left to the specialist .
7 Think of buying flowers in the same way as you would buying fish : always look for fresh , unmarked blooms .
8 ‘ It 's not quite as romantic as you might image ’ , he explains .
9 Leyhill prison on the Gloucestershire Avon border is as far from the popular conception of a jail as you can get.Modern buildings cluster around borders boasting blooms that many public parks would be hard pressed to match.Leyhill is an open prison … the last port of call for inmates nearing the end of their sentences.A hundred prisoners work on the nearly forty acres of lawns , borders and market gardens.Their skills won them a silver medal at Chelsea for this display of garden design.And at Leyhill , they 've created a spectacular show … with drifts of brightly coloured pelargoniums competing for attention with giant cannas … and a fine show of roses.New borders are being created all the time … giving the prisoners an opportunity to express themselves and learn techniques that could help them go straight when they 're released :
10 Supposedly , when I , when I told Nicola the other day that you reckon that I do n't do enough work , she says cor blimey she was shocked she was , shocked oh do it , do it as near to the microphone as you can mum
11 I was concerned , Dennis has never been given any schedule since he last spoke to erm Arthur which was get as much down as you can boy .
12 I know , so I mean the thing is that we 've always said have n't ya as long as you can sort of get 'em down
13 As soon as you can troops together .
14 He 's not like a father as you 'd sort of think of a father .
15 He had gone out of her life suddenly and without explanation and try as she might Theresa simply could not get over losing him .
16 Power did count in the end , though , for try as she might Mills could not contain the might of Italy 's Emanuela Pierantozzi , the European champion , who stood a head taller and reached over with a powerful grip .
17 She would only bewilder him quite as much as she would distress him .
18 We designated the areas , we chalked 'em off , we did as much as we could pre-prep .
19 People with mental disorder can not act like consumers in the ordinary sense of the word because of the nature of their problems — they can not , for example , forsake the NHS for another service as they might McDonalds for Burger King — but we can , nevertheless , devise ways of listening to what they have to say and ensuring their voices are heard .
20 Be that as it may Dentdale certainly is , as I have said , the bonniest of all the Dales and Dent village , with its cobbled streets and whitewashed houses , the bonniest of all the Dale villages .
21 The Handbook of Developmental Psychology , edited by Benjamin Wolman , covers nearly everything one could think of — as it should weighing in at £69 and nearly 5½ kg !
22 And since the discipline can not exclude psychological subjects from its accounts as it can psychologists , it has to consider the effects of gender variations among subjects more than it does among psychologists .
23 C. griffithii is a good accent plant and should be grown away from most other plants , as it will bush out quite densely .
24 He expresses no doubts , knows precisely what is required and will set about the job with the same approach as he would building a house .
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