Example sentences of "[noun] as quickly [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 Try to slap your heels against your thighs as quickly as possible . |
| 2 | He decided to get shut of Eleanor as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | The Americans hoped that it would come into force as quickly as possible , allowing German military forces to be recruited . |
| 4 | Fig 27 As you pass through the eye of the wind you need to transfer both back hand and foot to the mast and get round to the other side as quickly as possible ; a small jump is often the best way . |
| 5 | It 's best to remove the key as quickly as possible , re-engaging it as necessary . |
| 6 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 7 | Except on the odd occasion when the paper tray is empty , the problem only seems to be the inability of the printer to handle data as quickly as the PC can send it . |
| 8 | He got up from his seat as quickly as his thick furs and old muscles would allow , kicked some slates and books out of his way across the glass floor and started inspecting a pillar a few metres away . |
| 9 | She crouched at the firebox , shooting the wood into its mouth as quickly as it came , then cowered back from the sudden heat as the blaze was roused again . |
| 10 | Exactly like the Philistines of Ashdod , Gath and Ekron , its people decide to get rid of the ark as quickly as they can . |
| 11 | When we do make up our minds to lose the excess , however , we tend to sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term success : our aim is to get to our target weight as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | The laughter fled from her eyes as quickly as it had come . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ But then what do these Ministry Inspectors know about education ? ’ resumed the headmaster hastily , discarding doubts as quickly as he had assumed them . |
| 15 | They took one look at him and scampered over the fence as quickly as rats over the timbers of a sinking ship . |
| 16 | Kenjutsu was not a sport : it was simply the art of killing an enemy as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | Their learning curve is steep but this means that they will pick up bad habits and evasions as quickly as correct ways of going . |
| 18 | For instance , one could not say that the nervous system had simply slowed down , as on occasion the subjects could produce responses as quickly as they could when rested . |
| 19 | The only thing to do now was finish the plane and get back to Gibbet Hall as quickly as he could . |
| 20 | ‘ Now , Sir Henry , I agree that you should go to Baskerville Hall as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | Safeway and ASDA are introducing free-range products to their shelves as quickly as they can . |
| 22 | Deep inside she knew she should leave here and go back to England as quickly as possible before all her defences collapsed . |
| 23 | His stride was impatient , as if he wanted to pass through the tangled undergrowth and brambles as quickly as possible . |
| 24 | Conditions are jolly hot there , and they 're going to have to get used to that quite quickly , the big thing is to get them through and out into the desert as quickly as possible . |
| 25 | 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 , . |
| 26 | For those who are made redundant , the best advice is to try to get back into work as quickly as possible — the first three months is a vital period . |
| 27 | Is it that they do not exert themselves enough ( we know that the English work as quickly as they work well ) ? |
| 28 | ‘ We started off by concentrating on hardback fiction and mass market paperbacks because we wanted to build a paperback backlist as quickly as possible to get regular sales going through each month . |
| 29 | Er I think er it 's easy to talk about taking off two and a half percent here and there , I could probably put forward a number of reasons why it could add on two and a half percent , five percent to the figures and indeed I 'd be very disappointed if at the end of the day , we did n't achieve er greater reductions because once you get out long distance through traffic , er whose prime purpose is to move from A to B as quickly as possible , once you do that it gives you the opportunity then of bringing in the sorts of measures to improve pedestrian safety , er to slow traffic down , introduce traffic calming , which you ca n't do on primary routes . |
| 30 | Unable to return to your sport as quickly as you would like ? |