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 | Surely , if the train were in a station when the emergency occurred , you would get out and run away as fast as possible . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | In a radio interview on Sunday , Flashman warned Fry to ‘ stay as far away as possible . ’ |
| 9 | Scientists at the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) reported that a link might exist as long ago as 1968 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tomorrow she would go home as early as possible and she would never see him again . |
| 12 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If the theory is correct , trials involving HIV infected patients could go ahead as early as next year . |
| 15 | ‘ I know , I 'm only a woman but I can make and mend just as well as any man , if not better . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We should get there as soon as possible , for everybody 's sake , ’ said the Thing . |
| 18 | The consensus will last only so long as most lawyers accept the convictions that support it . |