Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun pl] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The aim is to disseminate messages as widely as possible within a given community . |
| 3 | The best we can do at the moment , until the ‘ organic revolution ’ hits the high street , is to eat foods as near as possible to their natural state — not out of tins and packets . |
| 4 | In neighbouring HERTFORDSHIRE Wynne Norris was teaching classes as early as 1955 . |
| 5 | In this respect he was confirming that what the movies did best was to tell stories as effectively as they could without wandering too far from the values of the old nineteenth-century themes . |