Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] as they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | whether the present legal powers in the 1983 Mental Health Act are being used as effectively as they can be , and what action could be taken in advance of any new legislation to ensure that they are . |
| 2 | Women are faced with making a choice between the needs of their children and their own needs , and that is one of the things which , because they 've put the needs of their children , the needs of their dependents , ahead of their own needs , they themselves and the needs of women have not got as far as they could . |
| 3 | Thousands were distributed as fast as they could be printed . |
| 4 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 5 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 6 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 7 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 8 | ‘ Both John Emburey and Phil Tufnell have not bowled as well as they can but they must be given the opportunity to bowl more on these kind of turning pitches at home . |