Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] possible [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both appeared as nearly naked as possible after the censor had cut or covered his pound of flesh . |
| 2 | I naturally charged him as little as possible but the money he earned went on other things — fresh meat from the butcher , extra milk and biscuits . |
| 3 | Oh we try and use ours as little as possible but still we 've had high bills . |
| 4 | Well obviously as little as possible because |
| 5 | Pin as little as possible as pins tend to leave marks . |
| 6 | The senior members of the team in each discipline should be switched to other jobs as little as possible as they must have an on-going responsibility for their area . |
| 7 | She must be careful to betray it as little as possible if the interview were to go the way she wanted . |
| 8 | Sometimes there is no substitute — but then use as little as possible or go without ! |
| 9 | His views were later confirmed by SWWA 's own non-executive director John Lawrence who commented in his own report : ‘ There seems to be a culture in which the public are told as little as possible and expected to trust the Authority to look after their interests . ’ |
| 10 | There is ample room in that account of the situation for the further stipulation that the judge should decide in a way that engages his own political or moral convictions as little as possible and gives as much deference as possible to institutions conventionally authorized to make law . |
| 11 | But it 's very difficult to say to people , ‘ Go back into your offices and rock your handset ’ , because it 's the last thing on your mind , especially after a boring afternoon like this , all you want to do is get in there , do as little as possible and go home ! |
| 12 | Training should be as specific as possible and so for karateka I recommend either shadow boxing against a mirror , or working out on a light punch bag . |
| 13 | They are designed to help all involved streamline their cases in a bid to keep the inquiry , expected to last two months , as concise as possible while covering all relevant points . |
| 14 | All Banks are now going out of their way to be as professional as possible and as customer friendly as that professionalism will allow . |
| 15 | The cloth is then wrung out as dry as possible and the deposited water recovered while it is still hot . |
| 16 | In both cases , the wood should be as dry as possible when the wood hardener is applied , and when this is dry , the two-part epoxy-resin wood filler is pressed into the cavity to give a noncrack , non-shrink repair . |
| 17 | In both cases , the wood should be as dry as possible when the wood hardener is applied , and when this is dry , the two-part epoxy-resin wood filler is pressed into the cavity to give a non-crack , non-shrink repair . |
| 18 | ‘ He wants to play his own part in it as low-key as possible and that 's quite correct . ’ |
| 19 | Make the name as descriptive as possible as it is added to the pop-up menu that is accessed when you click the button bar icon at the bottom right of the screen . |
| 20 | Ortiz describes his collection as a ‘ harmonious whole ’ , with a range that is as representative as possible but within which individual objects have been chosen for their aesthetic , scholarly and didactic qualities . |
| 21 | In all three studies , the children were selected to be as representative as possible and in each case they were asked to perform exhaustive intelligence tests and behavioural exercises . |
| 22 | ‘ After buying into the practice , it was very important to me to keep my outgoings as low as possible while my earnings built up . |
| 23 | These services of course have to be paid for and we do aim to keep the level of taxation as low as possible but of course we ca n't aim to bring it down as far as conservatives would want because we need , we in the city need , to spend money on things like the education fund without which it becomes a city less worth living in . |
| 24 | Social security ensured that the costs of mass retirement were kept as low as possible and were spread over the whole population rather than falling only on employers . |
| 25 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 26 | The other requirements for keeping leather corals , apart from current and light , are much the same as for other coelenterates ; well-filtered water with phosphate and nitrate at levels as low as possible and no fish that would eat or damage them . |
| 27 | The gate works simply and positively , and providing the threshold is set as low as possible and the release rate as long as possible , no untoward clicks or glitches show up . |
| 28 | Felipe was keeping his voice as low as possible and she knew why . |
| 29 | I turned it as low as possible and looked round the blind at Frankenstein 's house . |
| 30 | I look forward especially to a future opportunity to develop his views on the desirability of keeping national insurance contributions as low as possible and of working out exactly how that fits in with the policies of some of his right hon. and hon. Friends , but that is for another occasion , Madam Deputy Speaker . |