Example sentences of "[adv] as possible [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well erm you kept it out as long as possible but the weather spoilt it and the more you turned it , the bla blacker it came . |
| 2 | We keep the central heating off as long as possible and the thermostat is set low . |
| 3 | Quite apart from this , the legislation required that the gathering of evidence by other means would be unlikely to succeed , or would be considerably more difficult ; a warrant would apply to only one suspect , so that there were no general warrants ; the warrants would remain in force for three months and thereafter had to be renewed ; and the person concerned generally had to be notified as soon as possible after the surveillance ended that he or she had been the target of such surveillance . |
| 4 | We guarantee to meet claims from readers made in accordance with the above procedure as soon as possible after the advertiser has become subject to bankruptcy proceedings , or has gone into liquidation , up to a limit of £16,000 per annum for any one advertiser so affected , and up to £48,000 in respect of all advertisers . |
| 5 | We guarantee to meet claims from readers made in accordance with the above procedure as soon as possible after the advertiser has become subject to bankruptcy proceedings , or has gone into liquidation , up to a limit of £16,000 per annum for any one advertiser so affected , and up to £48,000 in respect of all advertisers . |
| 6 | One of the advantages of tacking onto port as soon as possible after the start is that you do n't have to worry about clear air |
| 7 | The parties will want a commitment to the buy-out as soon as possible after the commercial negotiations have been completed . |
| 8 | 2.2.3 ( subject as provided in clauses 2.3 and 2.4 ) in accordance with the building documents There must be an obligation on the landlord to make application for the approvals as soon as possible after the agreement has been entered into . |
| 9 | The person or body having an interest to protect is the one to register as soon as possible after the interest is vested in them . |
| 10 | In such circumstances details should be obtained as soon as possible after the announcement has been made and the Panel consulted . |
| 11 | After substantial delays in reaching a decision on the refitting competition , Jonathon Aitken , the defence procurement minister , announced this week that the MoD hoped to announce the outcome as soon as possible after the Easter parliamentary recess finishes in early April . |
| 12 | Shareholders would be notified as soon as possible whether the alternative offer would be made , and if so , on what terms , TVS said in a brief statement . |
| 13 | My only blurred thought was to reach shelter as soon as possible and the good belay spelt one word — abseil . |
| 14 | De Klerk reaffirmed his commitment to the principle of establishing a transitional government as soon as possible and the creation of a new parliament in which all racial groups would be represented . |
| 15 | SYRIA expressed a strong desire yesterday to resume Middle East peace negotiations as soon as possible and the United States said it would play a more active role in the talks than in the past . |
| 16 | Note that failure does not include collection failure — the absence of the sought item or topic from the collection ; one of the functions of a good catalogue is to inform users as quickly as possible that the library does not hold what they are looking for . |
| 17 | The subject 's task was to judge as quickly as possible whether the second clause was a sensible continuation of the first . |
| 18 | We presented both types of sentence in two parts and asked people to judge as quickly as possible whether the because clause was a sensible continuation of the main clause . |
| 19 | Letter strings are presented to the subject who has to decide as quickly as possible whether the letter string constitutes a word or not . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | The only snag to weighing fish immediately is that you should , as I have already mentioned , get your bait back in the water as quickly as possible when the bream are feeding . |
| 22 | He gropes mentally , ‘ straining every nerve in an agonised attempt to divine as quickly as Possible where the trap lay ’ . |
| 23 | The LAW 's main function is ‘ to make development land available as quickly as possible where the private sector finds it difficult to complete transactions ’ . |
| 24 | If Korea was deemed vital , Jacobs recommended liquidation of the Moscow agreement as rapidly as possible and the full implications in cost and personnel worked out . |
| 25 | It is important that if this staff member should leave , his departure should be anticipated as early as possible and the patient helped to accept it , otherwise it is very likely to provoke another crisis and further admission . |
| 26 | Choose the position of the brackets so that the end bracket is as high up as possible and the lowest point of the gutter ( at the outlet position ) is not more than 50mm ( 2in ) below the roof drip . |
| 27 | The Captain tried to slide the back window down as unobtrusively as possible when the young Sub-lieutenant sitting beside the driver began to choke . |
| 28 | It is important to observe behaviour as accurately as possible because the more accurate the observation the more this helps you to place a valid interpretation on what you have seen or heard . |
| 29 | Secondly , in the Fearon case it was not the right to exercise an economic activity which was conditional on the shareholders ' satisfying the residence requirement , but merely immunity from compulsory acquisition measures adopted under legislation governing the ownership of rural land designed to ensure as far as possible that the land belonged to those who worked it . |
| 30 | Although slated as a videodisc initiative , the early stages are keeping options open as far as possible and the project may ultimately be implemented using CD-ROMs or even CD-I discs . |