Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [noun] as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that failure does not include collection failure — the absence of the sought item or topic from the collection ; one of the functions of a good catalogue is to inform users as quickly as possible that the library does not hold what they are looking for . |
| 2 | The aim is to disseminate messages as widely as possible within a given community . |
| 3 | There is a strong anti-intellectual element in the present government which appears to believe that the greatest achievement is making money as fast as possible . |
| 4 | Then she turned to Xanthe whom she could avoid kissing , to keep her unbathed body away from the young girl 's groomed presence as far as she was able without coldness . |
| 5 | It 's a matter of fact that the strategy of the county council is to locate development as far as possible in and around the main settlements of the county . |
| 6 | The best we can do at the moment , until the ‘ organic revolution ’ hits the high street , is to eat foods as near as possible to their natural state — not out of tins and packets . |
| 7 | The Irish male being notoriously patriarchal , this is to undervalue Jellett as seriously as a feminist might overvalue her . |