Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall highlight the options available to you and their potential benefits and hazards to enable your final decision to be based as far as possible on a complete understanding of the available alternatives . |
| 2 | Disability arts , on the other hand , where , for example , sculpture is designed to be touched as well as seen , and songs are written about the world as we see it , can redress the balance and engage a lot of people in questioning assumptions that their exclusion from society is a fact of life . |
| 3 | He therefore directed that if J. were to suffer a life-threatening event while in the health authority 's care and the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority should cause such measures ( including artificial ventilation ) to be applied so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 4 | Tonight a spokesman for the Department of Health said people on waiting lists , even when they 're not emergency cases , are often in considerable pain and need to be treated as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | If a woman is tearful and apologetic and can claim some biological disturbance , then she is not likely to be treated as severely as a man . |
| 6 | Either nature does not contain it or nature contains too much to be conceived any longer as natural . |
| 7 | If liability is not in dispute , the action can simply be stood out by agreement or an application made to the judge of the lists , or to the judge on circuit , for a standing-out order , or possibly an application made to claim provisional damages ; but if liability is still in dispute the action must be tried and ought to be heard as soon as possible , irrespective of the uncertainties on quantum . |
| 8 | This review is to be repeated as frequently as the county council determines . |
| 9 | The investigation itself requires the test sessions to be repeated as often as possible , say on 5 occasions at each test time , to reduce the effects of variability . |
| 10 | It might , for example , seek to imprison for contempt either a working-class ‘ hero ’ organising lawful opposition outside the House to legislative proposals under consideration in it ; or an employer determined to extract his pound of flesh under legislation considered to be oppressive and proposed to be repealed as soon as possible . |
| 11 | It was common for disasters about to strike stocks to be revealed as late as possible . |
| 12 | The South India Railway was to be built as far as Ramaswaram and then connected to Ceylon by embankments and bridges . |
| 13 | Mr Reynolds said his government was continuing to press for the negotiating between loyalist and nationalist politicians to be renewed as soon as possible . |
| 14 | " In the narrow mind of this Boy Scout person , with his doll 's face ( popin ) , who only just knew where I ran was , the Shah was a dictator who put people in prison and so had to be replaced as soon as possible with a democracy like the USA " . |
| 15 | When there was the gas explosion at Guthrie Street we lost more than 100 panes of glass , all of which had to be replaced as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 16 | Large sums of money were missing from the business , and while his colleagues now realised that her father was ill — and obviously had n't deliberately intended to commit any kind of fraud — nevertheless , the money had had to be replaced as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | Eventually equipment purchases will have to be made so long as the demand for packaging is there . |
| 18 | The BBC still , happily , seemed keen to see the film produced and so Gerard budgeted it to be made as simply as possible in 16mm for television , with the hope that cinema distributors would find it irresistible and give it a release on the big screen . |
| 19 | Software should be written to recognise this and allow changes to be made as simply as possible . |
| 20 | In contrast , when he was forced to admit , in early June 1977 , that the trooPs concentrated in response to the UUAC general strike were to be withdrawn as soon as possible , he endeavoured to reassure the public with the remark , ‘ More is being done in the field of SAS-type activities than is realised and this will now be intensified . ’ |
| 21 | There 's a brand new Jag and a few bits of plant up there that need to be repossessed as quickly as possible . |
| 22 | A condition to be rectified as quickly as possible if she did n't want to be labelled a freak , or worse . |
| 23 | Subject matter has to be made more generally intelligible if it is to be seen no longer as self-contained but as part of a wide and complex body of knowledge . |
| 24 | Joint promotions are not specific to consumer goods , but are to be seen more often as companies attempt to find new promotional techniques . |
| 25 | If you want to be seen as well as heard , search out the VZ303 . |
| 26 | She is expected to be seen only briefly as she steps from her wedding car — a four wheel drive Range Rover — into the church . |
| 27 | One of the purposes of this publication is to demonstrate that conveyancing is not simply a job to be done as cheaply as possible . |
| 28 | " Everything has to be done as quickly as possible ; the only time we spend extra hours in the garden is over the few weeks we are entering competitions , just to make sure it looks at its best , " says Barbara . |
| 29 | Yet this very claim for monarchy implies a limitation : the irrational and reverential institution is to be tolerated so long as it serves its function . |
| 30 | But their magnetism was beginning to be challenged as early as 1953 by Marilyn Monroe , playing the busty gold-digger , Lorelei Lee , in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes alongside Jane Russell , whose bust , supported by a specially cantilevered bra designed by her master Howard Hughes , was the most noticeable asset she had . |