Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] as possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way to conquer a fear is to face it , and to do so as frequently as possible . |
| 2 | 4 If you need to phone back , do so as soon as possible . |
| 3 | I not only want to get married but I fully intend to do so as soon as possible , and to you , not to Dana . |
| 4 | I know of my hon. Friend 's interest in the matter , following the report of the Select Committee on Employment , and I can give an assurance that if the consultants ' report to which I referred has not yet reached the Department of Employment , it will do so as soon as possible . |
| 5 | If he was going to adopt this strategy , it made sense to do so as soon as possible — before new legislative elections renewed parliament 's mandate and while Algeria was still fresh in people 's memories . |
| 6 | ‘ True , though it 's only a yard with a three-room building , so as soon as possible we shall sell up and move to something bigger . ’ |
| 7 | Many workers in Britain have argued in favour of special family courts for divorcing families , and for divorce conciliation services , to help couples who wish to separate do so as amicably as possible ( see for example , Parkinson , 1982 ) . |
| 8 | But no system can wholly protect fools from their own folly or from the knavery of others , and the advantages of trying to do so as fully as possible have to be weighed against the disadvantages of imposing fetters on business conducted honestly and efficiently . |
| 9 | It is the responsibility of the counsellor to move into the difficult area of feelings , and to do so as gently as possible . |
| 10 | We are currently considering all viewpoints , and I can assure my hon. Friend that when we are in a position to announce our final decision , we shall do so as speedily as possible . |
| 11 | From that experience , he derived an ideal of stage unity stemming from a close collaboration ‘ regardless as far as possible of individual prestige and personality ’ , which was reinforced by working in the Group Theatre of the thirties with Auden , Isherwood , Spender , Britten and others . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll have the exhibition ready as soon as possible . |
| 13 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 14 | fill it in as neatly as possible ( do a rough copy first if you need to ) ; |
| 15 | But the estate agent had now found a buyer , one who was eager to move in as soon as possible . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As the Spring of 1963 gave way to Summer , one priority became uppermost in Whitaker 's mind — to get one script of each type of Doctor Who story together as soon as possible . |
| 21 | In solid metals , these spheres are packed together as closely as possible . |
| 22 | WWF has joined forces with other organisations interested in elephant conservation to make sure everyone works together as effectively as possible . |
| 23 | Keeping the legs straight , squeeze them together as tightly as possible . |
| 24 | I 'll be along as soon as possible . ’ |
| 25 | Obviously you need to take your horse 's temperament and your surroundings into account , but if you can get him working alone as soon as possible you are less likely to have to cope with him napping later on because he ca n't bear to leave his friends . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The sheep will have to be gathered up and brought down as soon as possible ! ’ |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But — there it was , and I began to go down as quickly as possible but with difficulty , for there was almost a metre between rungs . |