Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forms need to show the maximum possible numbers to include everyone on role at any time between January and December — please return them at or before the Reunion , but let us know verbally as soon as possible of any major changes — the office likes to give up to date information to enquirers . |
| 2 | I 'll let you know definitely as soon as possible about whether to confirm the booking . |
| 3 | I know of my hon. Friend 's interest in the matter , following the report of the Select Committee on Employment , and I can give an assurance that if the consultants ' report to which I referred has not yet reached the Department of Employment , it will do so as soon as possible . |
| 4 | We are currently considering all viewpoints , and I can assure my hon. Friend that when we are in a position to announce our final decision , we shall do so as speedily as possible . |
| 5 | I thought that , if I 'd just come from the Sahara to here , I 'd head back as soon as possible , family duties or not . |
| 6 | Surely , if the train were in a station when the emergency occurred , you would get out and run away as fast as possible . |
| 7 | Things do n't always work out as well as that : ‘ Dear Sir , ’ wrote a client to a Thomas Cook branch manager in 1965 , ‘ Will you please cancel travel arrangements made by Mr — for October 3rd as the wedding has been cancelled because he is already married . ’ |
| 8 | Things do not always work out as simply as that , of course , but knowing the rules and drawing clear lines before the game starts are essential if misunderstandings are to be avoided . |
| 9 | One of those few is Bruce Dickey , as gramophiles may remember as far back as 1981 from the album of ‘ Virtuoso Ornamentation around 1600 ’ by Schola Cantorum Basiliensis ( Harmonia Mundi , 9/81 — nla ) . |
| 10 | A senior detective at Marbella said last night : ‘ This lady told our detectives that she had no idea there was that much concern in London for her daughter and assured them that she would now return home as soon as possible . ’ |
| 11 | In a radio interview on Sunday , Flashman warned Fry to ‘ stay as far away as possible . ’ |
| 12 | Scientists at the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) reported that a link might exist as long ago as 1968 . |
| 13 | When the handicap player copies the picture and ‘ freezes ’ his movement , he might as well only swing back as far as that . |
| 14 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 15 | I knew he could punch but I did n't know Razor could go down as quickly as that . ’ |
| 16 | Tomorrow she would go home as early as possible and she would never see him again . |
| 17 | The courts seem to take the view that the minimum mark-up is usually in the region of 50 per cent of the hourly rate , and can rise in personal injury cases to 75 per cent in a very big , difficult case , and could go up as far as 100 per cent or more for cases of the greatest difficulty or where quantum is huge and complex . |
| 18 | Exporters , on the other hand , will hold back as long as possible before shipping their exports : if the rate does fall , they will earn more sterling per dollar 's worth of exports . |
| 19 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 20 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 21 | If the theory is correct , trials involving HIV infected patients could go ahead as early as next year . |
| 22 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 23 | I thought that it was probably some stupid village prank , but that I 'd better get in as soon as possible in case something odd was happening . |
| 24 | ‘ I know , I 'm only a woman but I can make and mend just as well as any man , if not better . ’ |
| 25 | The first thing to do is get up as quickly as possible , so practise falling down in all directions and jumping up again as fast as you can — until the whole movement becomes automatic . |
| 26 | The knees must come up as fast as possible to waist height . |
| 27 | We shall come back as quickly as possible and take you to the Hall . |
| 28 | ‘ Obviously you should get back as soon as possible . ’ |
| 29 | The skiing does n't stretch even as far as advanced intermediate , but reports of dedicated tuition in perfect English and high sunshine levels in a place on the same latitude as Rome make this an excellent first-timer 's choice . |
| 30 | ‘ We should get there as soon as possible , for everybody 's sake , ’ said the Thing . |