Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 2 | Otherwise , what we 've built here could disappear as quickly as it came . ’ |
| 3 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 4 | Such a service could act not only as a mediator between users and official agencies , but also deal with those aspects of heroin use that these agencies are unable or unwilling to resolve . |
| 5 | If she chose , she could speak as gracefully as a courtier , as deviously as a diplomat . |
| 6 | I would therefore be very grateful if you could confirm as soon as possible that you can contribute in this way . |
| 7 | I would be grateful if you could confirm as soon as possible that you wish the application to go forward in the current year as noted here . |
| 8 | Erm er perhaps I could refer just briefly as to why not . |
| 9 | " I am not sure I could do as well as you say in politics . |
| 10 | He could see quite clearly as he climbed the hill out of the village . |
| 11 | In the first example , production could begin as early as 1998 . |
| 12 | Mr Duncan Biggin , architect for the scheme and chairman of Dockbuild , said it was hoped demolition could begin as early as March 16 and building would start as soon as possible . |
| 13 | That meeting , which could occur as early as two weeks ' time , will then declare at least a three-month gap in meetings to fulfil the Unionist precondition for talks and clear the way for the first of a three-stage set of inter-party and inter-government negotiations to prepare a new British-Irish Agreement . |
| 14 | ‘ This could occur as early as 1995 and the years 1996 — 2000 should represent profitable opportunities . |
| 15 | ‘ When I was young , I could move as fast as Harald . |
| 16 | It was equally important to a world economy that information could move as freely as commodities . |
| 17 | Even in wellingtons , he could move as lightly as a squirrel . |
| 18 | She would n't have believed that he could move so fast as , with a rushing like that of fluid from a punctured sac , the rotten body comes slithering out in a wave of its own juices . |
| 19 | In Normandy , the settlers could sleep more soundly as the theatre of active war moved south . |
| 20 | The-troops also slept in the lavatories — a very awkward situation , this , as sometimes , if there was an air-raid , the train crawled and the journey could take as long as sixteen hours . |
| 21 | ‘ Suddenly we had a situation where money for the studio was no object : we could take as long as we liked . |
| 22 | If accepted , the appeal process could take as long as three years , according to reports . |
| 23 | As we had managed to walk so far the previous day , we were fairly high up in the mountains , and knew that the fog could take as long as 48 hours to clear . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I could walk as fast as I ever did but I tended to roll my shoulders and turn my three-toed foot in as I did so . |
| 26 | You ought to go to Yelton yourself and see the privation there , but I do n't suppose you could walk as far as your gate , never mind finding a horse strong enough to carry you . |
| 27 | This place looked solid enough from the inside , but it could change as quickly as your mind . |
| 28 | He had my lord 's entire confidence — indeed it is hard to credit that anyone could change so radically as has my uncle . ’ |
| 29 | So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science . |
| 30 | Few could go so far as Musurus Pasha , who during his thirty-five years as Turkish ambassador in London staffed the embassy entirely with his sons , nephews and sons-in-law ; but even in the most developed states of western Europe and on the eve of the 1914 conflict family influences could still be important . |