Example sentences of "as [adj] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 2 | He was to set out with the three French patrols , drive the hundred-odd miles to the Gabes Gap and pass through it as quickly as possible to create confusion in the enemy rear areas . |
| 3 | A ventilator should then be inserted in the bottom : this can be adjustable for very windy weather , but must be kept open as much as possible to prevent dampness in the flue being caused by condensation . |
| 4 | Economic theory suggests that all forms of economic activity should be taxed as equivalently as possible to prevent distortions in the market . |
| 5 | When the Foreign Office List made its first appearance " it was strongly objected to in certain quarters , as likely to afford information to the general public with regard to the office , which they thought it advisable they should not possess , and much information was for a time withheld " . |
| 6 | The use of the test as a prelude to intervention will depend very much on the extent to which it is regarded as important to direct remediation at the specific linguistic functions which this test addresses . |
| 7 | Moreover , that agreement should be kept under constant scrutiny during the initial period after the merger and amended as necessary to take account of the adjustments which will almost certainly be required as a result of the new firm 's experiences . |
| 8 | For example , taking the answer given by a respondent to a question as equivalent to direct observation of the event to which it refers , was an assumption upon which the method rested . |