Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] as we " in BNC.
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| 1 | In everyday speech , we do not pronounce words as clearly as we do when we are asked to say them in isolation . |
| 2 | Our basic goal is to modify both methods as far as we can to reduce these limitations , and then combine both approaches to converge on the linguistic system we hope to describe . |
| 3 | We 've limited our ambitions to a number of very specific areas and we intend to develop those areas as rapidly as we can . |
| 4 | Now , gentlemen , this war has shown that among the leaders of Labour there is a body which is national and patriotic ( Hear , hear and applause , ) and feels these sentiments as strongly as we do . |
| 5 | ‘ No , you can talk quite freely — there 's no phone tapping these days as far as we know ’ |
| 6 | Suez was the watershed between our imperial past and our offshore island future : before Suez we sought to restore our declining power ; after Suez we shed our self-imposed colonial responsibilities as fast as we could reasonably do so . |
| 7 | I can not give the hon. Gentleman that figure at the moment , but it is essential that we use NHS buildings as effectively as we can . |
| 8 | After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms . |
| 9 | Erm people spitting er obscenities , obscene gestures , er we 've had two assaults er but they have been relatively minor assaults as far as we 're concerned . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps we do not see these things as clearly as we should , Herr Wolff , ’ she said to soothe him . |
| 11 | Most people do n't actually go into things as deeply as we do . |
| 12 | We attempt to treat the wives and ex-wives of service men living illegally in some of our properties as sympathetically as we can and that is why the 1,600 to whom the hon. Gentleman referred live in service accommodation . |
| 13 | If my hon. Friend has any evidence that other countries might not be implementing the regulations as carefully as we are , we shall certainly take action . |
| 14 | A spokesman for Cheshire Building Society said : ‘ We try to apply policies as best as we can but we do not have the right to vary conditions . |
| 15 | And , Tim , you and I ought to have a we 're not actually going to have a formal session on self-study , but we have another we have a rather loosely structured session when we can bring up any other matters for erm basically that they 'll want to plan the video session rather carefully as well basically I think we want to follow in on yesterday 's meeting — we want to find out why we 're not selling more videos basically and use the whole of that session if necessary for exploring with the area managers why we 're not doing twice or three times as well as we are . |
| 16 | To continue to reduce taxes as fast as we prudently can . |
| 17 | In 1992 , the Conservative manifesto makes not even the most platitudinous mention of such a target : its four stated economic aims are ‘ to achieve price stability ; to keep firm control over public spending ; to continue to reduce taxes as fast as we prudently can ; [ and ] to make sure that market mechanisms and incentives are allowed to do their job . ’ |
| 18 | We continued to send parcels as often as we could . |
| 19 | I do not blame the Opposition for not understanding the issues as fully as we might hope , but , given their new-found support and desire for everything European , I thought that they might have developed a better understanding . |
| 20 | Atkinson said : ‘ We tried to forget about what happened at Coventry and put it out of our minds as quickly as we could . |
| 21 | We may not be able to digest foods as easily as we once could . |
| 22 | Weiner says that in the Eighties we 've gone past the ‘ grazing ’ stage , in which we picked at this and that all day long , to ‘ refuelling ’ : the pit-stop in which we shovel food in our mouths as fast as we can . |
| 23 | The Conservatives in Wales have actually taken this principal much further they do n't only allow overseas voters to participate in Welsh elections , they actually encourage them to become chairmen of our quangos as well as we 've got David Robeddow chairman of Conservatives abroad in Monte Carlo i if the panel out . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll start with the facts as far as we know them at the moment . ’ |