Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | All mature students intending to apply are recommended to write as early as possible to the appropriate faculty for guidance , giving full details of their educational background and their experience in employment . |
| 2 | They had in fact been reported missing as early as 1952 , well before Lydie Huyghe took over and to everyone 's embarrassment were found in a cupboard in a corridor during the latest inventory . |
| 3 | We are endeavouring to measure as accurately as possible the position and momentum of an electron . |
| 4 | Students selected on the basis of success in some form of study which has placed similar demands on them to the ones which they will experience in higher education have been shown to respond as least as well as , it not better than , the traditionally qualified entrants . |
| 5 | Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on . |
| 6 | On the same day , the mascaret , a river-bore which had been known to reach as far as Paris , was sweeping up the Seine . |
| 7 | Earlier or later maturity are quite normal and natural , although extremes ( ovulation and menstruation have been known to occur as early as six years of age ) are due to malfunction . |
| 8 | Much would depend on the exact state of affairs in Ireland and something would depend on the success of the Progressive parties in patching up a new electoral pact ( although after the events of 1912 and 1913 it could not be expected to work as well as in 1910 ) , but all of these factors would operate in the broad context of a probable Unionist victory . |
| 9 | Whilst we agree with the sentiments in MPG6 , paragraph 85 , that the planning system should be expected to work as efficiently as possible in expediting minerals applications , we believe the quality of decision-making is more important than its speed , given the significant issues involved . |
| 10 | Whilst we agree with the sentiments in MPG6 , paragraph 85 , that the planning system should be expected to work as efficiently as possible in expediting minerals applications , we believe the quality of decision-making is more important than its speed , given the significant issues involved . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm going to try as hard as I can . |
| 12 | Here he would be forced to work as hard as the people among whom he lived . |
| 13 | I 'm trying to go as fast as I can . |
| 14 | Contracts would normally run for three years and applicants would be required to start as soon as possible . |
| 15 | After this phase of the experiment was over , subjects were allowed to sleep as much as they wished , but continued to keep sleep diaries for a year . |
| 16 | Subjects were told that the quality or safety of their driving was not being assessed and they were encouraged to drive as normally as possible . |
| 17 | The colonies were encouraged to co-operate as actively as possible with British forces by promises of payments to cover the military costs , apart from clothing and pay , of any forces they could raise to support troops sent from Britain . |
| 18 | These " cosmic ripples " were estimated to stretch as far as 59 billion trillion miles in space and were calculated to have been formed only 300,000 years after the " Big Bang " ( the original event which scientists believe had created space and time ) . |
| 19 | Universities are trying to educate as cheaply as possible , but in doing so can frequently produce collections of study aids that infringe and compete unfairly with publishers ' original texts . |
| 20 | Finally , if misconstruction is to be avoided , it may be useful for legislation to explain how gradation is intended to operate so far as the charging and prosecution of offences is concerned . |
| 21 | Clockwatching has no place and everyone is expected to work as long as is necessary to do the job — and to do so without complaint . |
| 22 | They panic when driven out into the open and their first thought is to find cover as quickly as they can . |
| 23 | They are required to ensure so far as is reasonably practicable that any plant ( machinery , equipment or appliance ) is so designed and constructed as to be safe and without risk to health . |
| 24 | It was to be 1858 before the government explicitly extended freedom of speech , but inadvertently it was beginning to relax as early as 1856 . |
| 25 | I was determined to live as far as possible in the now . |
| 26 | This time he was determined to go as straight as an arrow aimed at Saint Sebastian to the core of the problem , as he saw it . |