Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it 's snowing or blocked by another plane , we have to be able to accept planes again as soon as possible . |
| 2 | Scott 's target : Scott Hastings , the Lions and Scottish centre who broke his cheekbone against Otago last weekend , rejoined the Lions today keen to play rugby again as soon as possible . |
| 3 | Lions and Scottish centre who broke his cheekbone against Otago last weekend , rejoined the Lions yesterday keen to play rugby again as soon as possible . |
| 4 | And because the upper limit of a microscope 's resolving power depends on the wavelength of the waves illuminating the object under study , Sokolov suggested that an acoustic microscope should in theory be able to resolve images just as well as the standard optical system . |
| 5 | If initiatives of this kind are sustained , and matched by measures which increase the informals ' security once they are in business , the sector can certainly gather greater strength and has the potential to generate jobs almost as fast as the urban population grows , but at very low levels of income , and in the form of enterprises where investment and technology is minimal . |
| 6 | Eternity as the sound of endless babble : one could of course imagine worse things , but the idea of hearing women 's voices forever , continuously , without end , gave her sufficient incentive to cling seriously to life and to do everything in her power to keep death as far away as possible . |
| 7 | Last year 's festival was so successful that arts centre staff had to turn people away as early as 8.15pm . |
| 8 | Consequently , Type 2 patients do not need to assess control quite as frequently as the Type I patients once good glycaemic control has been achieved . |
| 9 | A teacher working with a class she does not know needs to signal reality rather more strongly than when class and teacher are used to each other . |
| 10 | I also knew I was very unlikely to get visitors as far away as Styal . |
| 11 | Through oral history ( questioning older people ) , and by using other resources such as old photographs , or artefacts , pupils can begin to investigate life as far back as 50 to 80 years ago . |
| 12 | refuse to take work home regularly more than three nights a week . |
| 13 | Dr Winnifred Cutler , director of the Athena Institute for Women 's Wellness in Philadelphia , discovered that if male pheromones could be attached to women who were n't having regular sex ( by extracting them from men and taping them to women 's upper lips ) then this worked to regulate periods almost as well as regular sex . |
| 14 | Unless Mr Gorbachev can persuade — or force — Russia and others to back down , he will either have to print roubles even more furiously than before ( result : hyperinflation ) , or else he will be unable to pay for the huge central bureaucracy and , more seriously , for the army . |
| 15 | On the assumption that the account of this event in Molla Husrev 's life is at least broadly correct , however , and in the light of the documentary and such other evidence as exists , it would appear that he left for Bursa not earlier than Rajab 876 nor later than Shawwal 877 and returned to become Mufti perhaps as early as 878/1473–4 . |
| 16 | ‘ What computers can easily do is to enable unskilled people to produce rubbish twice as quickly as they did before , ’ Forsyth remarks . |