Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two spayed females disputing a territorial boundary can caterwaul as dramatically as any ‘ rutting toms ’ . |
| 2 | The older the child the longer you can wait so long as there are no other signs of serious illness . |
| 3 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 4 | Third , you have to believe that they can do as well as you . |
| 5 | That a computer can be taught to work like that has always been a controversial proposition ; even today there are observers who believe that it is impossible to build a machine ( at least with current programming techniques ) that can plan even remotely as well as a human . |
| 6 | If the safeguards we propose are adopted , we are confident this can work as successfully as it already does in the magistrates ’ and county courts . ’ |
| 7 | It is described here so that you can see as soon as possible : A learning program may have many facets , and classification is fraught with subtlety . |
| 8 | The dragonfly has so many ommatidia that it can see as well as some vertebrates . |
| 9 | On a clear day you can see as far as Dublin from the Great Car of Donard ( or so they say ) , but mist or heat haze have always foreshortened the view for me . |
| 10 | ‘ In the day , ’ said Barbara Coleman , ‘ I can see as far as the Esterel … |
| 11 | Further evidence comes from detailed observational studies of adult-child interactions which have suggested that infants are able to synchronise gross motor activity with the intonational contours of adult conversation ( Condon and Sander 1974 ) and that imitation of an adult 's facial expression can occur as early as three days after birth ( Meltzoff and Moore 1977 , 1983 ) . |
| 12 | I can run as fast as Magnus when I try . |
| 13 | An average polar bear stands almost four feet tall at the shoulder , weighs 1,500 lbs and can run as fast as 25 miles an hour . |
| 14 | Women can move as fast as men in weighing up situations rapidly . |
| 15 | It can develop as fast as a Charolais if fed appropriately and under ideal circumstances it can achieve similar weights within the same time span , especially if breeders are selective in their choice of stock . |
| 16 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 17 | Settlement can be a drawn out affair and can take as long as six months or more from the time your debt became overdue . |
| 18 | I have walked it in a day , but it can take as long as a week to complete . |
| 19 | It can take as long as two weeks after you give your blood sample before you get your result , which can be a difficult and stressful time . |
| 20 | The coarse grist can take as long as six months , by which time many plants that are intended to benefit will have long since gone . |
| 21 | First you are told that you can take as long as you like to put the counters in the jar . |
| 22 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 23 | Unless sent by an air courier , an ocean bill of lading can take as long as a week to arrive by air mail . |
| 24 | It is our experience that from appointment to completion , the sale of a company can take as long as six months or , perhaps , longer . |
| 25 | In some species these trailing threads , full of stinging-cells called nematocysts , can reach as far as 50 feet . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Such philosophical arguments can go on endlessly as is the nature of philosophy . |
| 28 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 29 | You can go so far as to say that any words which produce good music constitute a good libretto . |
| 30 | You can go so far as to say that I mean , you will be safe in saying that if your , that as your benefit is suspended your income support for you , not for your family but for you , will be reduced . |