Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as you can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have nothing against thorns and prickles so long as you can admire them from a safe distance . |
| 2 | You can uncover many things in this way , so long as you can hold your nerve when the technique is put into reverse and used against yourself . |
| 3 | Live yoghurt applied vaginally can often bring considerable relief from the itching , so long as you can contain the mess ! |
| 4 | You do n't have to worry too much about money do you really so long as you can manage with it . |
| 5 | I think so long as you can keep the parts of the structure there |
| 6 | It is trivially easy to select for a particular genetic formula , so long as you can read the genes of all the animals . |
| 7 | Equally , your murder still needs to be , in so far as you can contrive it without becoming ridiculous , attention-grabbing . |
| 8 | The voters , so far as you can judge from Greek opinion polls , would like to choose an economically responsible government in the coming election , and may even be willing to react responsibly to what it asks of them . |
| 9 | Still , it might be worth booking a session as soon afterwards as you can manage it , even if that is the next day . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course it was — and damned thoroughly too as you can see . ’ |
| 11 | If the rail was surface-mounted , simply lever it off as gently as you can using packing between lever and wall to protect the plaster . |
| 12 | Well , Paul went about as quickly as you can go ; I was certainly humane that time . |
| 13 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 14 | gashes up and down the hillside , as near as you can get to my |
| 15 | First , a murder should be , as far as you can make it so , attention-grabbing . |
| 16 | This is taking a sense of the particular about as far as you can go : man evolving as harmoniously with his landscape as the mayfly nymph evolved in harmony with its stream . |
| 17 | As you go through these , try to aim for clarity and smoothness , not just speed ( and if you have a 21-fret guitar , obviously only play up as far as you can go ! ) . |
| 18 | ‘ What 's it feel like , as far as you can reach ? ’ |
| 19 | Thus Sir William Trumbull , when he was sent as English ambassador to Paris in 1685 , was told that : You shall constantly correspond with our ministers in other foreign courts , for our better service , and your mutual information and assistance in your respective negotiations ; and you shall also maintain a good correspondence and intercourse with all the other ambassadors , envoys and ministers of princes and states in amity with us , and as far as you can penetrate into the designs of their respective superiors , and of what you can discover of this nature you shall give us a constant account by one of our Principal Secretaries of State . |
| 20 | As often as you can manage . |
| 21 | In the coming weeks and months , ask yourself as often as you can remember : ‘ Why am I creating this ? |
| 22 | The guitar 's dimensions do limit its penetrating power , but what you get instead is a sparkly , ultra-fast response that clearly articulates fingerpicked notes as fast as you can spit them out . |
| 23 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 24 | As a result , adjusted earnings are up very helpfully as you can see . |