Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Setting prices in relation to costs is all right as long as the latter are under control , but here they clearly are n't : it is obvious that if Marie 's back is turned , food either gets wasted or goes missing . |
| 2 | Having done so , it then regrows its tail , though it is not always as long as the original and internally it is quite different , for instead of bony vertebrae , it has only a tube of cartilage . |
| 3 | And to be fair to you I 'm again going to give you a few minutes to talk about that , not quite as long as the other time , then I 'll ask you to jot a couple of things down as well as , so I 'm just telling you in advance . |
| 4 | The caller asks if she can be informed as gently as possible that a very close relative has died . |
| 5 | Well erm you kept it out as long as possible but the weather spoilt it and the more you turned it , the bla blacker it came . |
| 6 | We keep the central heating off as long as possible and the thermostat is set low . |
| 7 | When a person is arrested away from a police station , section 30 says that he should be taken to a police station as soon as practicable unless the investigation requires his presence elsewhere . |
| 8 | Quite apart from this , the legislation required that the gathering of evidence by other means would be unlikely to succeed , or would be considerably more difficult ; a warrant would apply to only one suspect , so that there were no general warrants ; the warrants would remain in force for three months and thereafter had to be renewed ; and the person concerned generally had to be notified as soon as possible after the surveillance ended that he or she had been the target of such surveillance . |
| 9 | We guarantee to meet claims from readers made in accordance with the above procedure as soon as possible after the advertiser has become subject to bankruptcy proceedings , or has gone into liquidation , up to a limit of £16,000 per annum for any one advertiser so affected , and up to £48,000 in respect of all advertisers . |
| 10 | We guarantee to meet claims from readers made in accordance with the above procedure as soon as possible after the advertiser has become subject to bankruptcy proceedings , or has gone into liquidation , up to a limit of £16,000 per annum for any one advertiser so affected , and up to £48,000 in respect of all advertisers . |
| 11 | One of the advantages of tacking onto port as soon as possible after the start is that you do n't have to worry about clear air |
| 12 | The parties will want a commitment to the buy-out as soon as possible after the commercial negotiations have been completed . |
| 13 | 2.2.3 ( subject as provided in clauses 2.3 and 2.4 ) in accordance with the building documents There must be an obligation on the landlord to make application for the approvals as soon as possible after the agreement has been entered into . |
| 14 | The person or body having an interest to protect is the one to register as soon as possible after the interest is vested in them . |
| 15 | After substantial delays in reaching a decision on the refitting competition , Jonathon Aitken , the defence procurement minister , announced this week that the MoD hoped to announce the outcome as soon as possible after the Easter parliamentary recess finishes in early April . |
| 16 | Shareholders would be notified as soon as possible whether the alternative offer would be made , and if so , on what terms , TVS said in a brief statement . |
| 17 | ‘ In the present climate , I think people will be under quite a lot of pressure to begin building work as soon as possible when an answer has been given , ’ said principle officer for child services , Cliff James . |
| 18 | If you are interested please contact myself as soon as possible and a confidentiality letter will be sent to you . |
| 19 | My only blurred thought was to reach shelter as soon as possible and the good belay spelt one word — abseil . |
| 20 | De Klerk reaffirmed his commitment to the principle of establishing a transitional government as soon as possible and the creation of a new parliament in which all racial groups would be represented . |
| 21 | SYRIA expressed a strong desire yesterday to resume Middle East peace negotiations as soon as possible and the United States said it would play a more active role in the talks than in the past . |
| 22 | Note that failure does not include collection failure — the absence of the sought item or topic from the collection ; one of the functions of a good catalogue is to inform users as quickly as possible that the library does not hold what they are looking for . |
| 23 | The subject 's task was to judge as quickly as possible whether the second clause was a sensible continuation of the first . |
| 24 | We presented both types of sentence in two parts and asked people to judge as quickly as possible whether the because clause was a sensible continuation of the main clause . |
| 25 | Letter strings are presented to the subject who has to decide as quickly as possible whether the letter string constitutes a word or not . |
| 26 | He was getting back quicker than I thought because he is quite a tall guy , so I had to knock the stumps down as quickly as possible and the quickest way to get there was through the air — and I took it . ’ |
| 27 | The only snag to weighing fish immediately is that you should , as I have already mentioned , get your bait back in the water as quickly as possible when the bream are feeding . |
| 28 | In my experience , young people in a family have been directed to go and conceive a child as quickly as possible because a dying person wants to see a grandchild to ‘ know that his name will live on before he dies , . |
| 29 | He gropes mentally , ‘ straining every nerve in an agonised attempt to divine as quickly as Possible where the trap lay ’ . |
| 30 | The LAW 's main function is ‘ to make development land available as quickly as possible where the private sector finds it difficult to complete transactions ’ . |