Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the support of regional legal officers and a set of guidelines and codes of practice , we ask the solicitors to abide by regional secretaries ensuring that cases are pursued as forcefully as possible with the members interests uppermost at all stages . |
| 2 | Since children 's linguistic performance varies across situations , it is particularly important that the conditions associated with the collection of the data for the age norms are repeated as closely as possible when an individual child is assessed . |
| 3 | Words which appear early in the lists were remembered more easily as the subjects had more opportunity to rehearse these after being read than the rest of the words in the list . |
| 4 | In fact his father-in-law had congratulated him on the perfectly splendid bit of crackling Hugh had in his arms in Chancery Lane , and naturally mum was the word , and his lips were sealed as far as Molly Coddle was concerned . |
| 5 | The first meeting of the committee received a resolution from a conference held under the auspices of the society and the Canning Town branch of the guild which rejoiced in the wider powers given under the act , and urged the council to ‘ take steps to exercise any , or all of the powers given , and especially that steps be taken as soon as possible to establish a creche or day nursery in the southern part of the borough ’ ( Maternity and Child Welfare Committee Minutes 20 November 18 ) . |
| 6 | One of the first major pieces of legislation controlling what information went on packets was passed as recently as 1953 . |
| 7 | Blake and King begin to complain to each other that they are now wasting their time , since matters are settled so far as they are concerned . |
| 8 | If this has not already been done , the bone fragments should be separated , those of left and right bones being differentiated as far as possible . |
| 9 | The Charity Commissioners understand that many charities are out of step in this matter but they do wish to see matters being regularised as soon as possible . |
| 10 | The cathedral was begun in the early thirteenth century and building continued till after 1300 , while a later choir and chapels were added as late as 1520 . |
| 11 | Section 3(1) requires that the models be followed as closely as circumstances permit . |
| 12 | Even the spread of increased educational opportunities to rural areas was opposed as late as 1944 on the grounds that farm workers would no longer ‘ know their place ’ . |
| 13 | The company has a major share of the broiler feed market in the SE region thanks to the commitment of the regional poultry team who ensure their customers needs are met as economically as possible . |
| 14 | This chess game works on all graphics boards and the pieces are drawn well so as to avoid straining the eye . |
| 15 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 16 | The magnificent late twelfth-century font in the great church of San Frediano at Lucca shows Pharaoh drowning in the Red Sea ; and he and his troops are dressed up much as Frederick and his knights must have appeared to the Lucchese of the 1160s . |
| 17 | Despite the Geneva conference requirement that heavy weapons in the area be placed under UN supervision from Sept. 12 [ see above ] , renewed artillery attacks were reported as early as Sept. 14 in Sarajevo ( which was suffering severe water and electricity shortages as supply lines were interrupted ) . |
| 18 | The Stock Exchange of Singapore was incorporated in 1973 and electronic trading boards were introduced as early as 1982 . |
| 19 | Particularly when the subject matter is demanding or unfamiliar ( as in much academic writing ) , it is important that the relationship between ideas is signalled as clearly as possible . |
| 20 | Things are stirred up enough as they are , do n't you think ? |
| 21 | Indeed over his three and a half years in office new problems were added as quickly as others were solved or eased . |
| 22 | The list below names employees that are at present being transferred and whose details are required as soon as possible . |
| 23 | Linda , Christy , Cindy , Claudia , Yasmeen , Naomi ; their names are dropped as casually as cigarette butts in a pavement cafe . |
| 24 | The Way Ahead Committee which is a joint Bar Council/Inns Council committee established ‘ to examine means of ensuring that the resources of the Bar and Inns are managed as effectively as possible for the benefit of the profession ’ ; and |
| 25 | The evening was dropping like velvet and the lagoon was fading to a deep dusky richness in which the curving palms were reflected as cleanly as though the water were a dark-silvered looking-glass . |
| 26 | Apart from the Ukrainophile Kirillo-Methodian Society , which the regime thought particularly dangerous because of its obsessive concern for the unity of the empire , no circle of intellectuals was treated as harshly as the Petrashevtsy in the period between 1826 and 1848 . |
| 27 | Other Coalition Liberals were disliked as warmly as Lloyd George , more for their present policies than for their past . |
| 28 | Oh , the patient looked a mess , but Kath had seen the enormous care that had gone into the alignment of each suture , the meticulous attention not only to the innumerable tiny little muscle fibres , nerves and blood vessels but to laughter lines and wrinkles to ensure that the tissues were realigned as closely as possible to their original position . |
| 29 | In 1929 the Northern Ireland parliamentary boundaries were drawn up so as to attach areas of the surrounding countryside to the city centre , creating the safe Unionist seat of City of Londonderry , while the mainly Catholic areas were put into the Nationalist seat of Foyle . |
| 30 | Every town and village , and most large estates , had natural or man-made ponds on which matches were arranged as often as the weather allowed . |