Example sentences of "[verb] as closely as possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when Bevin as British foreign secretary speedily found himself entangled in tough disputes with the USSR , this did not lead him to follow Churchill 's line that Britain had of necessity to work as closely as possible with the United States . |
| 2 | establishing a language that mirrors as closely as possible the language found in the literature and the language used by potential users ; |
| 3 | In line with recent methodological trends , the stories are enjoyable for their own sake , and aim to resemble as closely as possible the style of book children would choose to read in their first language . |
| 4 | This was at a time when the same gp160 product was being vigorously touted by MicroGeneSys as a prophylactic vaccine candidate ; a time when , as now , being able to mimic as closely as possible the natural viral antigens was held to be important for such a vaccine . |
| 5 | Each child born with a defect was matched as closely as possible to a healthy infant born in the same hospital , at the same time . |
| 6 | The first thing to watch for is that the scanner be matched as closely as possible to the target printer . |
| 7 | Oh , the patient looked a mess , but Kath had seen the enormous care that had gone into the alignment of each suture , the meticulous attention not only to the innumerable tiny little muscle fibres , nerves and blood vessels but to laughter lines and wrinkles to ensure that the tissues were realigned as closely as possible to their original position . |
| 8 | Where the Ministry of Defence has occupied land for generations or even for centuries , will my hon. Friend ensure that in disposing of it the Ministry will work as closely as possible with local authorities to ensure that it is developed consistently in accordance with the wishes of local people ? |
| 9 | ‘ She wanted it to fit as closely as possible into a particular recess . |
| 10 | At the other end of the school , in the first year of the Halls , close links were established with the many primary schools ( some of them tiny ) which sent eleven-year-olds to the school , and the style of teaching for that first year was aligned as closely as possible with the more effective primary-school practices . |
| 11 | Production work — students should be encouraged to prioritise and to produce work within deadlines throughout , in order to mirror as closely as possible the conditions of the workplace . |
| 12 | For example , the completed miniature illustrated in the photograph on the facing page shows a design that represents as closely as possible the way the plant grows in the wild . |
| 13 | We have turned this Council round , reflecting as closely as possible the values that the community expressed in the local elections of May 1990 and May 1991 . |
| 14 | The aim should be to simulate as closely as possible the particular diet of a fish species , incorporating for example , as much natural live food into a carnivorous species diet and fresh plant material into the herbivore 's as possible . |
| 15 | This guiding principle of participant observation — that the observer should be part of the setting which he or she is studying — was followed as closely as possible in the other communities . |
| 16 | ( I use the phrase ‘ representational role ’ rather than ‘ meaning ’ here to hew as closely as possible to the line of the second scenario . ) |
| 17 | These effects give a guide to the symptoms which the derived remedies are used to treat , using ‘ like for like ’ i.e. the illness to be treated and that caused by indigestion of the substance should match as closely as possible . |
| 18 | The new treaty tells us that decisions will be ’ taken as closely as possible to the citizens ’ . |
| 19 | " We reaffirm that decisions must be taken as closely as possible to the citizen . |
| 20 | Addressing the problem of finding a clear definition of the principle of subsidiarity , an annex declared that it " contributes to the respect for the national identities of member states and safeguards their powers " and that " it aims at decisions within the European Union being taken as closely as possible to the citizen " . |
| 21 | Various parameters of the mathematical model , which represents the relationships between system components , are modified until real-world and simulation model behaviour agree as closely as possible . |
| 22 | Reflect as closely as possible the normal reporting structure of the organisation . |
| 23 | Since children 's linguistic performance varies across situations , it is particularly important that the conditions associated with the collection of the data for the age norms are repeated as closely as possible when an individual child is assessed . |
| 24 | In this case a control group would be selected which matches as closely as possible , member for member , the characteristics of the people constituting the experimental group . |
| 25 | The new restoration , masterminded by Heinrich Magirius , of the Commission for Historic Monuments for Dresden , and Harald Marx , director of the Gemäldegalerie , has returned as closely as possible to the original decorative scheme devised by Semper . |
| 26 | ‘ His hair had been clipped as closely as possible to the scalp , with the exception of a small patch on the crown of the head , which was pulled down over the forehead to form a fringe . ’ |
| 27 | Researchers without very much thought , continually try to manipulate non-experimental data so as to approximate as closely as possible to the kind of experiment held to epitomise natural science . |
| 28 | Specimens should be planted as closely as possible two or three weeks before being taken on board and then kept on deck , covered in bad weather with a tarpaulin against salt spray , a precaution made unnecessary after the invention of the Wardian case . |
| 29 | Ultimately the law has responded to this problem by intervening to try to ensure that the market resembles as closely as possible the paradigm of perfect competition , outlawing monopoly and trade practices that deviate from that paradigm . |
| 30 | Much of computer-based activity , perhaps the bulk of it , consists of making the powerful new technology behave as closely as possible to the way the world used to be before the computer age . |