Example sentences of "as we [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 2 | We keep as much power as we can in Britain and we devolve as much of that as we can to our regions . |
| 3 | Yes , and we at the university are , I think , really I say ‘ I think ’ , my own purpose here at the university is to export what we 've got as quickly as we can to the local community , and indeed nationally too . |
| 4 | On arrival at Edinburgh Airport , two Landrovers awaited us and our luggage , and we drove as fast as we could to Gleneagles , to try to be in time for the Moët et Chandon reception which is the first party of the Rolex-Jackie Stewart Challenge weekend ; this was timed for 8pm ! |
| 5 | We only brought you and the boy as swiftly as we could to Andernesse . ’ |
| 6 | I do think answer for that one er erm I 'm not aware of any paper that 's published presenting that and we came as close as we could to answering that but nobody really knows for sure . |
| 7 | ‘ We got as close as we could to the shrimping rig , then Neil Henshaw and myself climbed aboard . |
| 8 | Love and trust still exist , but because the emotional machinery that registers them has gone wrong , we do not feel as we used to . |
| 9 | ‘ He has gone from being totally subdued and unsure of everyone to playing games , just as we used to . |
| 10 | We do n't inhabit our homes as we used to . |
| 11 | " If you provide the boar — your sacrificial gift to the funeral — then we will match the gift by burning the death-house anyway , as we used to . " |
| 12 | The dining room in our town house is smaller than the one we had in our big , Victorian family house , so we do n't hold as many large dinner parties as we used to . |
| 13 | The modern veterinary surgeon does not see nearly as many cases of distemper as we used to , simply because most people immunize their puppies at the earliest possible moment . |
| 14 | Modern relevant and as successful in recruitment of the workforce of the nineties as we used to be in recruiting the workforce of the sixties and seventies . |
| 15 | Do we defend by attacking as we used to , or do we keep numbers back like last year ? |
| 16 | Apparently we 're not killing as many cows as we used to . |
| 17 | We do n't have to worry as much as we used to about its being misused by the party state apparatus for corrupt erm , then of course there 's , them , the , the , the problem of longer term aid , how we help the Soviet Union integrate itself into the world economy . |
| 18 | And , and , and lets remember that the first big shock that British sportsmen got , the first shaking of the earth which intimated that we were n't so hot at these things as we used to be was in professional sport , it was in football , it was when the Hungarians beat England in nineteen-fifty-six , and the Hungarian army officer Elista Pushkas became erm a world figure because he 'd led the team that had humbled British football might . |