Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having reassured herself that , so far as could reasonably be expected , no changes had been made in the house , Elisabeth embarked on a tour of the garden . |
| 2 | At some late and inebriated stage of the proceedings , Ramsey Everett made his way , alone so far as could be established , into an adjacent sitting-out room . |
| 3 | In many parts of the world , as King 's survey stresses , the redistribution process involves the splitting-up of large estates , where land is farmed to produce a satisfactory return for the owners but not as intensively as could be the case ; insufficient land productivity is thus a contributory cause of the widespread poverty . |
| 4 | What he saw he painted as exactly as could be painted but he certainly knew when to catch each view in its most romantic moment . |
| 5 | Suits '68/'69 — mohair or as near as could be got away with . |
| 6 | We went there with a new cloth on the drum , as near as could be ; and when we come away there was n't a piece of it no bigger than your hand . |
| 7 | A special pathos is achieved when the poetry acts out the predicament of people whose all too expert command of language debars them ( paradoxically ) from expressing a common human sorrow — mortality , the fear of it , and its conclusiveness — as limpidly as could Williams 's ‘ widow ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ What remained of the car was examined but , as far as could be told , there was nothing wrong with the brakes or the steering and the tyres were nearly new . ’ |
| 9 | As far as could be foreseen , they were to retain responsibility for the nuclear deterrent after ballistic missiles had taken over from manned bombers . |
| 10 | Not Terry Place , who , as far as could be judged , had never met any of the Pitts except the girl , and that on a day that nearly killed him . |
| 11 | Samuel had now read all passages from the Lion 's work relevant to Rochester Castle , and enumerated every single friend that Dickens had brought there , as far as could be traced . |
| 12 | So as often as could be managed I went for trips with my father on the trams . |
| 13 | The decision was communicated to our staff late in 1992 and I am pleased to say that the wind-down has been handled as efficiently as could be wished . |
| 14 | Looking as well as could be expected . |
| 15 | ‘ I think you might say , sir , that the patient is coming along as well as could be expected . |
| 16 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |