Example sentences of "[adv] little as possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect he hoped to have as little as possible to do with her , but when she made a dead set at him , as she did at all young married men , that was no longer possible . |
| 2 | The purpose of this chapter is to help you to deal with any injuries which you may pick up , so that they affect your fitness as little as possible . |
| 3 | Mr Carey said : ‘ We submitted a bid which tried to be clear about the problems , and to arrive at a view of what is practicable , which disturbs MPs as little as possible , while giving the broadcasters what they want . |
| 4 | Mr Guerin 's lawyer said he had advised Mr Guerin to say as little as possible for the time being . |
| 5 | In considering the personal aspects of a witness , courts should always bear in mind the unreliability of subjective impressions and should base their judgments on these as little as possible . |
| 6 | Some people wear it all the time because they think it acts as a barrier against the weather but I believe in letting your skin breathe so I always wear as little as possible . |
| 7 | The words , and the need to get those words within earshot of the maximum number of people , have subordinated the music to the level of glossy paper — designed to interfere with clear transmission and reception of the message as little as possible . |
| 8 | I used to go as little as possible to the MainMan offices . |
| 9 | If she 'd waited another year she would have garnered twice the price , as the yuppie age was dawning , but unfortunately for herself and her family , Jane had no financial sense whatsoever , except , thanks perhaps to her Scottish ancestry , she always spent as little as possible . |
| 10 | I stayed on my knees , sitting back on my heels , head bowed , breathing as little as possible , staring at the protruding arrow , thinking the survival programme was too much . |
| 11 | An animal in a desert must breathe as little as possible . |
| 12 | The first rule of any intelligence network , of course , is that each agent should know as little as possible . |
| 13 | His views were later confirmed by SWWA 's own non-executive director John Lawrence who commented in his own report : ‘ There seems to be a culture in which the public are told as little as possible and expected to trust the Authority to look after their interests . ’ |
| 14 | All your endeavours should thus be directed to earning money , and you should be very careful to spend as little as possible , or you will not be able to travel in an honourable fashion … |
| 15 | The result is that riders who want to avoid heatstroke have to wear as little as possible under their jackets and most of us men have n't got used to innocently looking round to see someone undoing her jacket to reveal nothing but a clingy bra underneath ! |
| 16 | It 's something we 've just had to accept , and we try to clip him as little as possible . |
| 17 | It would have been my job anyway to make as little as possible of it , but it certainly was n't difficult to do because nobody seemed that bothered , ’ he says . |
| 18 | The thing to do was move as little as possible . |
| 19 | There were many exceptions , of course ; but there was a pervasive attitude — largely based on a misinterpretation of Sigmund Freud 's psychoanalytic theorizing — that children should be inhibited as little as possible . |
| 20 | ‘ Interfere as little as possible with nature ’ was the watchword . |
| 21 | Unless they are detrimental to health , it is important that , during an episode of illness , the patient 's individual habits of living are changed as little as possible . |
| 22 | In most areas of local government activity , the main concern of business organizations was that councils should operate as cheaply as possible and interfere as little as possible with their operations through planning controls . |
| 23 | 1 All stock should be handled as little as possible . |
| 24 | Rehearsals went on as usual every morning but in order to disturb the other passengers as little as possible , they had to get up very early and work in a screened-off area . |
| 25 | Few historical labels are more ambiguous than ‘ feudal ’ , and for that reason I shall use it as little as possible . |
| 26 | Like their ancestors , the Mennonites still shunned buttons and pockets , relying on hooks and eyes ; they refused cars and engines , preferring horsepower ; the Mennonites nevertheless reclaimed land from the river and sea , regulated the flood planes and wanted as little as possible to do with the evils of the outside world . |
| 27 | Above them were the ‘ During-Puberty ’ pupils aged thirteen to sixteen whose curriculum was to include ‘ the laws of the feelings they now experience … it is best at this period that they should think as little as possible about these matters ’ . |
| 28 | It helped if you got caught to know as little as possible . |
| 29 | I usually do this as little as possible so that the children stay in the game a long time . |
| 30 | As this type of filter should be disturbed as little as possible , it is not advisable to mix it with other media that require regular attention like filter floss . |