Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name of the game is to hit the guy as hard as you can and to protect yourself at all times . |
| 2 | Anyone who thinks they may have become liable to tax since they registered should tell their bank or building society to cancel the registration as soon as possible . |
| 3 | I had to paint the gashes as soon as possible so that rust would not begin to bite into Wavebreaker 's long sleekness . |
| 4 | It is hoped that members will continue to support the Trust as generously as they have done in the past , in the knowledge that by responding to information mailed to them they are making a contribution to the Trust 's work . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Obviously if we get any additional cash allocation from any source , it will be deployed in er such a way as to treat the patients as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Try to continue the pattern as long as possible and if you have to return to stocking stitch do make sure that the work matches on both sides of the neck . |
| 8 | It should not however be criticised because of its attempt to relate the gospel as directly as possible to the world in which we live . |
| 9 | ‘ Your main priority is to get to know the city as quickly as possible , so we 'll be acting mainly as back-up for the first few days . |
| 10 | I tried to answer the King as well as I could , but he did not think our system was a good one . |
| 11 | Read these stories and try to answer the questions as briefly as possible . |
| 12 | Read these stories and try to answer the questions as briefly as possible . |
| 13 | Where this is the case there will be a need to remedy the deficiency as quickly as possible , and thereafter to seek to improve the individual 's eating habits by careful discussion and support . |
| 14 | A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should . |
| 15 | Some congressmen are pushing it to sell the rest as fast as it can . |
| 16 | They hope to sell the house as soon as possible but did not think it would go to a Vic Reeves fan . |
| 17 | And Gregory : ‘ I found it a tremendously exciting challenge to depict the past as convincingly as I could for the mass-market audience of today . ’ |
| 18 | One was subsequently excluded because it proved impossible to advance the colonoscope as far as the anastomosis in this patient . |
| 19 | " I want you to experience the news as well as read it , " Ron Evans used to say . |
| 20 | After substantial delays in reaching a decision on the refitting competition , Jonathon Aitken , the defence procurement minister , announced this week that the MoD hoped to announce the outcome as soon as possible after the Easter parliamentary recess finishes in early April . |
| 21 | Its decision is therefore almost always to show restraint and to leave the scene as quietly as possible . |
| 22 | ‘ We suspect that he was primarily concerned to leave the course as soon as possible because of the proximity of his selected position to the start , ’ it said . |
| 23 | ‘ We suspect that he was primarily concerned to leave the course as soon as possible because of the proximity of his selected position to the start , ’ it said . |
| 24 | In the early and middle part of the decade they were being urged to leave the workforce as soon as possible , as a way of coping with high unemployment and large numbers of school leavers . |
| 25 | FMC have been training farmers to use the insecticide as economically as possible in an effort to pre-empt the ban . |
| 26 | Puzzled by this , he was careful later to record the time as precisely as he could when , unexpectedly , on 18 October of the following year the moon underwent another eclipse : |
| 27 | A council spokesman said : ‘ The company has raised a number of issues which we are looking at and we are hoping to resolve the situation as soon as possible . ’ |
| 28 | In its 1969 report , the Committee on the Enforcement of Judgement Debts chaired by Mr Justice Payne recommended the setting up of a Court Enforcement Office , the functions of which would include assisting the creditor to obtain from the debtor ‘ as much as he can properly afford ’ , to liquidate the debts as soon as possible and to protect the debtor against undue hardship or harassment . |
| 29 | ‘ That would be the best possible way to mark the day as far as I am concerned . |
| 30 | The case was to set a stamp on the decade , and one question from prosecuting counsel Mervyn Griffiths-Jones was to mark the period as precisely as Neville Chamberlain 's ‘ Peace in our time ’ had done in 1938 . |