Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I entreat you both That , being of so young days brought up with him And sith so neighboured to his youth and haviour That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time , so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures , and to gather So much as from occasion you may glean , Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus , That opened lies within our remedy . |
| 2 | Despite experiences which have come close to destroying their lives , the three managed to appear remarkably cheerful as they faced the cameras in Moya 's elegant house . |
| 3 | Used to come up purple as well as pink . |
| 4 | He took care to appear blithely unworried as he strolled with his staff , for he knew only too well how the French sympathizers in the city were looking for any sign of allied defeatism that they could turn into an argument to demoralize the Dutch-Belgian troops . |
| 5 | We can learn more about ourselves from monkeys than from microbes , and looking around our modern human world it is clear that we need to discover as much as we can about ourselves . |
| 6 | The purpose of this section was to discover as much as possible about trends in staffing and recruitment , the internal policies of institutions on Language in Education , and a little about the attitudes of tutors in this area towards their field . |
| 7 | Secondly , this study aimed to discover as much as possible of the information which is potentially available to drivers , not just the occasional item of particular interest . |
| 8 | The recruit will be evaluated against this specification when making the final decision , so as to come as close as possible to an objective evaluation of the candidate . |
| 9 | Scholarship involves attempting to remove all obscurities so as to come as close as possible to this essence . |
| 10 | The stencilled letters and numbers are assertions of this also — ‘ as part of a desire to come as close as possible to a certain kind of reality , in 1911 I introduced letters into my paintings ’ , Braque has said — but the implications are wider . |
| 11 | Both of these sides will have to bring out something special if they are to come as close as Jed to upsetting the championship applecart . |
| 12 | They then try to find as many as possible in the period of the game . |
| 13 | And the Horton I think will stand to benefit as much as any hospital , by the proposed N H S reforms in insuring that er money follows the patients , and that we do n't have these sorts of situations arising again , whereby when hospitals treat more patients they simply run out of money more quickly . |
| 14 | It helped if you got caught to know as little as possible . |
| 15 | This is a matter of considerable importance , since it is clearly desirable to know as much as possible about the conditions within the nuee ardente . |
| 16 | He still defends their use on the grounds that ‘ For selfish reasons a prison administrator needs to know as much as he can about each prisoner , especially incoming prisoners . ’ |
| 17 | This helps you to know as much as possible about the targets you are trying to reach . |
| 18 | In practice , the state or its regulatory authority is unlikely to know as much as those in the firm about the demand curve , the production function or , even , the competitive level of factor prices . |
| 19 | If you are a sales person , one of the important parts of the job is to know as much as possible about the people you are selling to . |
| 20 | All you need to know about Flaubert to know as much as the next person ! |
| 21 | ‘ How else can they be turned ? ’ asked Fenella , partly from interest , but partly because it would be a good idea to know as much as possible about the Workshops . |
| 22 | I want to know as much as possible about that young man and his movements . |
| 23 | ‘ I hope these questions wo n't seem offensive but we need to know as much as possible about the family . |
| 24 | If they 're going to find out Paul Gray 's killer they need to know as much as possible about his movements near to the time of his death . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It would help us a lot to know as much as possible about both Mrs Marr and the Rector . |
| 26 | ‘ How come , ’ he asks , ‘ that human beings whose contacts with the world are brief and personal and limited are nevertheless able to know as much as they do ? ’ |
| 27 | At night I tossed and turned to dreams of such emotional intensity that I went to work as tired as I was the day before . |
| 28 | Girls , it 's a shame really I also find they did n't need to , they do n't , did n't need to work as hard as the ones years ago . |
| 29 | ‘ We try to encourage as many as we can , ’ he told Hot Press , adding , ‘ young photographers have to start somewhere . |
| 30 | Our aim is to encourage as many as possible to attain various levels within the award scheme . |