Example sentences of "[to-vb] as quickly [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were instructed to fob them off with promises in order to get them back to work as quickly as possible . |
| 2 | This new wave of anonymous buildings , designed to slip as quickly as possible through local authority planning procedures , has ripped the heart out of Hammersmith . |
| 3 | The effect was the same : junk was suddenly less attractive , and anyway much of it was now in the hands of federal rescue agencies keen to sell as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | Corbett turned to his guide to ask what was happening but found the man had had enough sense and discretion to depart as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | Charles turned to walk as quickly as he could down the steps and away without actually running , when a young woman appeared beside the butler . |
| 6 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 7 | They tend to subside as quickly as they arise . |
| 8 | Er , so our intention is to do as quickly as we can . |
| 9 | As soon as the aircraft had stopped he told his passenger to leave as quickly as possible and stay well clear . |
| 10 | Our own days in the palm-frond houses seemed to dwindle as quickly as sand through a sieve . |
| 11 | Howard justified overruling the recommendation saying it was national policy to proceed as quickly as possible with renewable energy projects . |
| 12 | Once a project which meets the predetermined criteria has been found the natural inclination is to proceed as quickly as possible , but ignoring changed circumstances will cause problems . |
| 13 | We are having , we , we are at the moment reviewing all our traffic calming er requests because there are a whole load of them and in fact some of them we 've not been able to proceed as quickly as others so we , we need to look at the whole thing |
| 14 | If the motor is to accelerate as quickly as possible the maximum ( pull-out ) torque must be developed at all speeds . |
| 15 | Now I realised something was wrong for , as you young men know , if a horse becomes uncontrollable the best thing to do is to dismount as quickly as possible . |
| 16 | Letter strings are presented to the subject who has to decide as quickly as possible whether the letter string constitutes a word or not . |
| 17 | The MP added : ‘ I 'm calling on Saville 's to withdraw as quickly as possible from the deal and allow the local authorities to acquire the land . |
| 18 | The subject 's task was to judge as quickly as possible whether the second clause was a sensible continuation of the first . |
| 19 | We presented both types of sentence in two parts and asked people to judge as quickly as possible whether the because clause was a sensible continuation of the main clause . |
| 20 | Try to respond as quickly as possible , especially if you are likely to reject the DC , since the developer may ( against all advice ) have proceeded with the modifications ( although unable to enter the modules into LIFESPAN ) . |
| 21 | A recent spate of firebombs in some stores , which caused £10 million worth of damage was met with a determination to rebuild as quickly as possible . |
| 22 | We want that to end as quickly as possible , and an effective way to achieve that would be the election of a Labour Government . |
| 23 | Already a £4.1 billion industry , quick-service restaurants continue to expand as quickly as ever , despite the economic trend . |
| 24 | There will be a tendency , when everything comes from the computer , you hear it already , ‘ oh it was the computer ’ , and that , I think , we want to try to change as quickly as possible . |
| 25 | Different classes of share will be created and issued by the company to the management and the investors in order : ( a ) to allow a large share capital to be created without unduly diluting the management 's interest ; ( b ) to reduce the investors ' risk by providing a part of the share capital to be in the form of preference shares , which will enable the company to redeem as quickly as the cash flow and profits allow ; ( c ) to set up a " ratchet " mechanism which will allow for the management shareholding to increase with the success of the company . |
| 26 | In the case of a severe burn , that is one that is larger than an inch in diameter , the rule is the same : cool first , cover later , and in this instance start to cool as quickly as possible to prevent the burn spreading into the surrounding tissue . |
| 27 | Bankers would be foolish to expect the Bank of Japan to improve their spreads by cutting the official discount rate ( ODR ) again if the economy fails to recover as quickly as many now expect . |
| 28 | Determined to recover as quickly as possible , she sucked harder on the juice and asked the nurse for another one as soon as she was finished . |
| 29 | As you start , therefore , concentrate on keeping the board level and getting it to move as quickly as possible . |
| 30 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |