Example sentences of "their [noun sg] as [adv] as possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , for family companies , such tax planning may have to be balanced against the shareholders ' natural desire to have their money as soon as possible ! |
| 2 | This form of destabilizing speculation took place in the hyper-inflation of Germany in the 1920s , as people spent their money as quickly as possible . ) |
| 3 | The chairman of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News announced in his 1986 annual report that ‘ The Times now has a cost structure much lower than our own … we must get our own costs down to their level as soon as possible ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ We hope they will reach their decision as soon as possible , because it is not the sort of thing we like to have hanging over us . ’ |
| 5 | The Government are currently considering the findings of the recent review of meat hygiene enforcement and will announce their decision as soon as possible . |
| 6 | ‘ We have to hope they complete their work as soon as possible , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It was evidently the Conservative intention to associate their campaign as closely as possible with the personality of the wartime leader . |
| 8 | This enigma demanded their return as soon as possible . |
| 9 | On Good Friday everyone would be very serious , and go about their business as quietly as possible . |
| 10 | Under the pressure of new business , chancery clerks standardized their output , streamlined by cutting down on lengthy prologues , stated their business as succinctly as possible . |
| 11 | Evidence from ophthalmologists , especially Mann and Pirie ( 1946 ) , and observation of good practice by educational psychologists and teachers confirmed that this was not so , and that children with low levels of vision should be encouraged and trained to use their vision as effectively as possible and to enjoy using it . |
| 12 | A council spokeswoman urged people to register their participation as early as possible by telephoning Belfast 683000 . |
| 13 | All she could do was stumble from the room and get out of their sight as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | They will expect you to watch helplessly as their trap gradually tightens , so do n't wait — break through their line as quickly as possible and run to find help , weapons or a better place to stand and fight . |
| 15 | RSPCA experts , concerned for his care , were today due to ask police to release him into their care as early as possible . |
| 16 | Furthermore , pollinators are directed to suitable target sites for deposition of pollen by a series of rewards at those sites , whereas dispersers are not and indeed , jettisoning of the ‘ ballast ’ from their food as rapidly as possible is to their advantage : food may take 10 to 20 minutes to pass through a bat or small bird , though up to several months in animals like the rhinoceros . |
| 17 | An understandable desire on the part of model proprietors to produce forecasts and assess their accuracy as quickly as possible leads to a situation in which relationships are estimated on one vintage of data but assessed on another . |
| 18 | Otherwise , a long-term plan involving the natural parents and foster parents needs to be conceived with their cooperation as soon as possible ( Rutter , 1982 ) . |
| 19 | Elderly people should be invited to eat meals with other members of their family as often as possible , for not only will they enjoy their meals more , but this is a mark of their continuing membership of , and acceptance by , the ‘ tribe ’ . |