Example sentences of "[noun sg] as you [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its engine was American , its assembly was completed in America , it would n't have happened without Shelby 's American dream , but underneath it all the Shelby AC Cobra was a British a sports car as you could wish to see . |
| 2 | He occupies a 12th floor office in a building about as typical of a government department as you can get . |
| 3 | So you are about as far away from absolute egalitarianism as you can get , you are actually enshrining |
| 4 | ‘ The papers treated it all as a great tragedy as you 'll see when you look at them . |
| 5 | The fact that they 've chosen to have somebody representing them in objection to the new settlement proposal I think is as strong an indication as you can get that the local people do n't actually support the council on this point . |
| 6 | Read a piece as you would tell a bed-time story to a sleepy six-year-old . |
| 7 | Protection , too , thanks to the many thin cracks and cracklets seaming the rock , is plentiful and both pitches will obligingly swallow just about as much gear as you can carry . |
| 8 | After reading some of the comments from people who saw the game or who listened on the radio , the above seems to be about as true reporting as you 'd expect from the NOTW . |
| 9 | Make a note of the width of your chosen fabric as you will need this information when you come to estimate the amount of fabric needed . |
| 10 | It was as green a light as you could get for the never-ending demands for U-turns from Mr Gould , followed by several Shadow Cabinet colleagues . |
| 11 | Being a good and persuasive talker is a must for this work as you may have to get up and speak at a sales conference or at an agency presentation . |
| 12 | And they can , I mean , they can even continue with original employer and work as you might say , for nothing , until they 've paid back , what they took . |
| 13 | Birds possess a similar skill as you will discover if you try to dismantle even the untidiest and most apparently haphazard of twig nests . |
| 14 | The reason for the long undercarriage is n't to provide adequate prop clearance as you might expect . |
| 15 | What I want you to do is shout out as many features of the plan as you can think of , and then in a minute we 'll look at changing them into benefits . |
| 16 | erm I think it ca n't be bad for you because you do quite a lot of the same exercise as you 'd do in proper aerobics |
| 17 | He is also as keen a European as you will find on the Government benches , especially the front bench . |
| 18 | As much a sport as you could call erm |
| 19 | Linda , has always in the seven years I 've known her , spent fortunes on clothes and make-up as you can see . |
| 20 | Turn left and come to the Wasserkirche , the Water Church , as lovely a piece of late Gothic architecture as you could wish to see . |
| 21 | This is not as wild a question as you might suppose in a country where every Buddhist is a monk some time in their lives , and can slip into the habit again at any time . |
| 22 | Not the erm complication of of vehicles to the extent we saw with the motorcycle film just now , but this is erm again The the police car is staying well back cos he 's following this vehicle you can see a hundred and thirteen , well the speed 's gets up to about a hundred and forty in a moment as you 'll see . |
| 23 | She lived in a one-bedroom flat in St George 's Place as you may know those council flats . |
| 24 | There was a big double door kept permanently open between the two rooms , and it was as comfortable a place as you could imagine . |
| 25 | But that is still in place as you can see . |
| 26 | The ten diagonal chimneys rising from the steep pantiled roof are the finishing touch , making Allerthorpe as grand a farmhouse as you could find in all Yorkshire . |
| 27 | The subject of the degree is not always as significant in securing a job as you might think . |
| 28 | Not to mention the classes of thirty or more , and all the other sources of frustration that prevent you from delivering the service you should , and doing the job as you would like . |
| 29 | Lot thirty seven is an Edison Gem phonograph as you can see it has some cylinders with it er fifty pounds for it , fifty pounds any bids , five , sixty , five , seventy five , eighty , ninety , one hundred a hundred pounds and ten any more at a hundred and ten ? |
| 30 | So if you play small smoothly declarer , ( who is only missing queen , ten , five in the suit ) is almost certain to play a top honour on the first round , after which the contract will be doomed to failure as you will make a trump trick by force . |