Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Midlands it is the tree one sees most often : and for a brief spell in early sum-mer it is the most beautiful of all the Midland trees , with its continuous miles of white may blossom glimmering as far as the eye can see . |
| 2 | The control of downy mildew is preventative , not curative , therefore the vigneron must commence spraying as early as possible prior to the flowering if the first infection is to be prevented . |
| 3 | It is also worthwhile explaining that the recording is intended to capture the child 's natural language and that the adults should try to behave as normally as possible and should not make any special efforts to get the child to talk . |
| 4 | Norwich will feel they should have scored as early as the second minute . |
| 5 | Although the therapist was probably correct in initially providing a chance for Pamela to express her worries to someone outside the family , she should have progressed as soon as possible to helping Pamela and her parents tackle together the problems surrounding their communication and lack of mutual trust . |
| 6 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 7 | These policies should bear in mind principles such as that when children leave school they should have acquired as far as possible : |
| 8 | But she should have got as far as London . |
| 9 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 10 | The problem is that the invitation must have come rather late as Carolyn recalls : ‘ I walked in about six o'clock and Diana went : ‘ Quick , quick I 've got to meet Charles in twenty minutes . ’ |
| 11 | Those taking up job-release allowances must not take a job or set up in business on their own , and their employer must undertake to recruit as soon as possible a registered unemployed worker . |
| 12 | Sophie , darling , we must get married as soon as possible . ’ |
| 13 | The Star Council says we must get married as often as possible and have children . |
| 14 | Mrs Ephraim Cook did not agree with her , believing that every child should learn to read as firmly as she believed they should wash behind their ears every morning and not relieve themselves , like dogs , in the street . |
| 15 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 16 | Ekwall ( 1975 ) , citing Walker , notes that [ h ] -loss might have occurred as early as 1791 ; Brunner ( 1963 : 5 ) dismisses early ME spelling evidence with the remark that Anglo-Norman scribes were prone to use initial h ‘ incorrectly ’ . |
| 17 | " I 'd like to sleep as much as anyone , but if we all sleep and something comes , who 's going to spot it ? " |
| 18 | If we did go ahead , we 'd like to exchange as soon as possible . |
| 19 | The car , which could have raced as early as May , will be fully prepared for action with Prost behind the wheel next season . |
| 20 | Catalogues come out early — you may have ordered as early as the Chelsea Flower Show in May — and although you know that the plants will not arrive before the back end of October at the earliest , more likely into November , you will have to plan where the temporary reception centre will be placed . |
| 21 | The implications of the new technological revolution go far beyond the silicon chip and its offspring , a message that may have penetrated as far as Kenneth Baker , Britain 's Minister for Information Technology . |
| 22 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 23 | The student would need to read as widely as possible in different kinds of poetry , to learn something about literary history , genre , and convention , and to acquire the practical-critical skills of close reading . |
| 24 | The Court also favoured the interpretation of Article 27(d) which would enable requesting as well as requested States to use domestic law procedures , but even on a narrower reading saw nothing in Article 27 to limit the power of a requesting State . |
| 25 | If not he would have to leave as soon as possible without arousing suspicion . |
| 26 | He said that residents of the first floor flats , which had not been flooded had been told that they would have to return as soon as possible . |
| 27 | Son batted at least as well as Miandad and Mujtaba , and lasted longer than Malcolm or Ramiz , but it has to be admitted that with a fifth day available , his team would have lost as surely as England did . |
| 28 | Well the insurance would have to go as well as I could n't afford to keep that going . |
| 29 | I would have to go as fast as I could while I could still see the way , and then rest for longer , and then probably crawl . |
| 30 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |