Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] quickly [conj] possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 Try to slap your heels against your thighs as quickly as possible . |
| 2 | Since the recent introduction of the Children 's Act , the aim has been to work more closely with the natural parents , with a view to returning youngsters to their own homes as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | His stride was impatient , as if he wanted to pass through the tangled undergrowth and brambles as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | But when on first hearing of this arrangement I tried to inform Miss Kenton of it , she once again refused to converse with me , and in order to accomplish matters as quickly as possible I was actually obliged to write a note and put it under the door of her parlour . |
| 5 | They scurry quickly across the table , keen to get to grips as quickly as possible . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I would love to have raced at Mondello Park in the European series , but it clashes with the opening round of the British Championship at Knockhill in Scotland and my priority is to learn the British tracks as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | Commenting on these provisions in a case in which , through no fault of the plaintiff , process had failed to reach a defendant in France until some two months after the leaving date , a Dutch court said that ‘ the Convention subordinates the interests of plaintiffs in enforcing their rights as quickly as possible against foreign defendants to the latter 's interest in having an opportunity of defending themselves ’ . |
| 8 | There is a great demand from universities , polytechnics , further education colleges and sixth form colleges to implement the reforms as quickly as possible so that we may avoid the damaging effect on morale that delays and uncertainties could cause . |
| 9 | And we need a coor coordinating campaign to get those signatures as quickly as possible , so then we can talk about lobbying Parliament , because we ca n't do it without them . |
| 10 | Exasperated by this foolishness , the Collector told Mr Simmons to distribute the extra food with the rations as quickly as possible . |
| 11 | Firefighters say it was important to control the flames as quickly as possible because of the close proximity of petrol pumps . |
| 12 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 13 | Will he use the facilities of the European Community to ensure that ships that are manned and owned by France , for example , obey the new rules as quickly as possible ? |
| 14 | Now sailing encompasses windsurfing , dinghy sailing and ocean cruising and if you 've got millions of pounds to spend you can enter the Fastnet or the Admiral 's Cup but whatever level or whatever part of sailing you want to take up , the basic techniques are best learnt in a dinghy or sail boat because it 's less expensive and a lot more simple to operate and that 's the purpose of this video to learn the most basic techniques as quickly as possible and to be at one with the wind . |
| 15 | The head porter will have the responsibility of organising parking spaces for the coaches , seeing that the luggage is unloaded , counted , checked and agreed with the group leader and dispatched to the rooms as quickly as possible . |
| 16 | So while it is a good idea to move in on all your slow payers as quickly as possible , it is an even better idea to concentrate your efforts on your biggest accounts first rather than spreading them more thinly and less effectively over all your customers . |
| 17 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | We have a meeting within the next couple of weeks to discuss those proposals and I assure my Hon. Friend that we will publish the details as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We wound up the windows as quickly as possible but we were already soaked . |
| 21 | But the other echo which really gripped me was his reference to some of the Imperial flights down the Gulf that were not as straightforward and as simple as they are today , I speak now of when I was awakened from my afternoon siesta by someone from the guardroom telling me to get down to flights as quickly as possible and have my overnight gear with me . |
| 22 | I will arrange for you to be advised of the respective decisions as quickly as possible . |
| 23 | I want to get those decisions as quickly as possible , but they must be the right decisions because unless they are , the future of British farming will be under a cloud . |
| 24 | Something has to be done about the imbalances in the city 's health services in order to provide better value for Londoners as quickly as possible and to lay the foundations for future development . |
| 25 | If the following questions have not been answered by the time you start your new job , make sure you have the answers as quickly as possible . |
| 26 | This short series is aimed at getting you started with QBasic and getting you to write real programs as quickly as possible . |
| 27 | It seems that the idea is to get rid of the 14 Minor County sides as quickly as possible , but the time has come to make cricket 's oldest limited-overs competition into a proper knockout contest , instead of a half-baked one as at present . |
| 28 | ‘ We have always had a policy of implementing standards as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 29 | Some local authorities may not have introduced those measures as quickly as possible , but it goes further than that . |
| 30 | They sat him up , hauled off his jacket and shoved up his sleeves , reapplying the tourniquets as quickly as possible . |