Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will always be homes , local authority as well as private sector , which do not always behave as well as they should within the rules . |
| 2 | In this case I am actually drawing with the brush and the colours will merge quite nicely as they are painted wet into wet . |
| 3 | One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves . |
| 4 | Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries . |
| 5 | For several months the Hong Kong Sevens waited , hoping that the country 's two rugby bodies would unite as quickly as they had in some other sports — most notably cricket . |
| 6 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 7 | Manager Alan Lockwood was forced to bring in a number of young faces and he could only look on agonisingly as they struggled against more experienced golfers in gusting winds . |
| 8 | Who and how many people we imprison , for how long and in what conditions are questions that politicians and sentencers must answer ; those in the prisons must make it work as well as they can . |
| 9 | Tribunals are an essential check on the powers of officialdom but at the moment they do not work as well as they should to ensure justice in welfare provision . |
| 10 | The best laid plans do n't always run as smoothly as they should , so we have tried to identify areas where you might encounter problems . |
| 11 | Her agent , Cleveland County Coun Alan Sykes , told The Northern : ‘ Things do n't look as well as they might be . ’ |
| 12 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 13 | ‘ The companies should be warned of the falling guillotine and urged to produce and ship as fast as they can . ’ |
| 14 | Let them hate so long as they fear . |
| 15 | The economists agree that reforms should happen as fast as they are technically possible , whether ordinary citizens want it that way or not . |
| 16 | It do n't take as long as they say . ’ |
| 17 | The thin man said Crane should be left to make his own way so that the rest of them could ride as fast as they could down one of the tracks to the south . |
| 18 | And how many times , on re-entering occupied space , did the phenomena depart as suddenly as they came ? |
| 19 | And oh , when we do something else , and my hands say to my feet , ha hang on , you can walk as well as they can , let's try it . |
| 20 | But yesterday organiers decided competitors could go as fast as they like . |
| 21 | They can go as fast as they want and there will be no restrictions . |
| 22 | Good sense says that they should go as far as they can but return from time to time to those parts of the plan which have not at first been realized . |
| 23 | Or you may sort of erm people who you do the same thing over and over again , the same sort of job , would you not agree a little bit of complacency can set in and erm things do n't perhaps come over quite as they should ? |
| 24 | Actually they do do n't play as well as they used to . |
| 25 | erm If United can play as well as they did this afternoon and Oldham perform as well as we know they can , we 're in for a really tremendous game of football . |
| 26 | Although the coin is removed it will feel like it 's still there and the victim will shake as hard as they can to the encouragement of the observers with such calls as ‘ Shake it off ’ . |
| 27 | The abduction and murder of 2 year old , James Bulger , she says , underlines the importance , whenever possible , of not letting youngsters out of your sight and ensuring they know that when confronted by a stranger they 're allowed to scream and shout as loud as they like . |
| 28 | Cynics are betting that the romance is a huge publicity stunt to help sell the firm : ‘ The relationship will last as long as they can use each other , ’ says one . |
| 29 | Among these worlds the probabilities of their state ( i.e. their entropy ) will increase as often as they decrease . |