Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | To take an obvious case , modern manufacturing industries can only go on so long as there are capitalists and workers . |
| 2 | I tuned in halfway through as this guy was complaining about the official . |
| 3 | Ministers of the Crown will no longer be responsible for the internal workings of such organisations , accept in so far as they fulfil their contractual obligations . |
| 4 | She lay down carefully so as not to disturb him . |
| 5 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 6 | fill it in as neatly as possible ( do a rough copy first if you need to ) ; |
| 7 | But the estate agent had now found a buyer , one who was eager to move in as soon as possible . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | LEGISLATION making the fitting of smoke alarms compulsory in all new Scottish houses will be brought in as soon as possible , the Government pledged last night . |
| 10 | Soon they were all engaged in a noisy , boisterous game of hand-ball and , although Rachel joined in as enthusiastically as anyone , as the game progressed she was only really conscious of the mounting awareness between herself and David . |
| 11 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | This is obtainable from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food and you must ask for a form to fill in as early as possible before the trip . |
| 13 | When I took a rolled-up sample of legal tender , printed by the Royal Mint , applied one end to my right nostril , placed a restraining finger upon my left nostril , rested the other end of the said note upon a mirror or any other shiny reflective surface , upon which was displayed a slender tranche or ‘ line ’ of exotic Colombian snuff , and breathed in as deeply as my lungs would allow , I was merely relaxing in a manner by no means untypical amongst overworked show-business operatives . |
| 14 | Take three deep breaths , breathing in as far as you can but without straining . |
| 15 | ‘ I think you might say , sir , that the patient is coming along as well as could be expected . |
| 16 | Even encumbered by his painting gear and a heavy camera case , Fen strode along as fast as ever . |
| 17 | I 'll be along as soon as possible . ’ |
| 18 | We can move , of course , change direction , rattle about , but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current … |
| 19 | Midland Pensions are unit linked plans and since the value of units can go down as well as up it is possible that the value may fall below that of the original investment . |
| 20 | This did not go down as well as he might have hoped . |
| 21 | First , EEC agriculture must be made more efficient and competitive , with the objective being to get down as near as possible to the marketplace and world prices , however they are defined . |
| 22 | Jeane Russell brought his arm down as easily as a barmaid pulling a pint and dropped his hand into a burning ashtray . |
| 23 | The sheep will have to be gathered up and brought down as soon as possible ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The trattoria sent it late , sir , ’ Wilson gasped , putting the tray down as carefully as she could manage , longing to escape from the room . |
| 25 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 26 | He was getting back quicker than I thought because he is quite a tall guy , so I had to knock the stumps down as quickly as possible and the quickest way to get there was through the air — and I took it . ’ |
| 27 | I knew he could punch but I did n't know Razor could go down as quickly as that . ’ |
| 28 | They were asked to write their statements down as quickly as possible and to answer as though describing themselves to themselves rather than to anybody else . |
| 29 | Bearing in mind that there 's something like forty companies chasing about eighteen percent of this market , do you honestly feel that your advertising revenue is going to go down as quickly as feel if you want to try and keep ahead of the the pack and keep up with the leaders . |
| 30 | Right , what we need to do is to hit it fairly hard and try to get it damped down as quickly as we possibly can . |