Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 5 ) In order to keep his underwriting costs to a minimum , the bidder will normally wish to shut-off the cash underwritten alternative as soon as practicable . |
| 2 | It produced the coal for 80 per cent of Britain 's electricity , so , like the CEGB , it had a direct interest in denying the effects of acid rain , or at least delaying action as long as possible . |
| 3 | Since money is seen as one component of total wealth , we can expect the demand for money to be directly related to total wealth so long as money is regarded as a ‘ normal good ’ by wealth-holders. ( b ) Rates of return on financial assets ( R ) . |
| 4 | John Wain — another Movement novelist — is said to have voted Conservative as early as 1951 , before he ever published a book , as if silently laying down a marker for the future : but then that was in the days of Winston Churchill . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He stressed that people should also seek advice as early as possible if they feel they are getting into financial difficulties . |
| 7 | Numeric values may include calculation so long as there are no keywords . |
| 8 | All of this is totally incomprehensible to the woman , who wants unification as soon as possible . |
| 9 | There 's a bleak line in the book when , his parents divorcing , his father leaving for Europe , Rock quotes himself , aged 11 , saying ‘ I 'll be OK , Dad , I wo n't need Mom so long as I can have the limo . ’ |
| 10 | Editor , — After being transferred to human insulin a number of patients have complained that they do not recognise hypoglycaemia as clearly as they used to with animal insulin . |
| 11 | It is important to assist the patient to change position regularly while in bed and to encourage ambulation as quickly as possible to assist the circulation . |
| 12 | MOMENTS of passion can include ice-cream so long as it is the grown-up variety . |
| 13 | In the tense climate of postwar eastern Europe , the new powers expediently circumnavigated the full truth of their citizens ' wartime collaboration and atrocities in order to consolidate power as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | Amsterdam sipped his Madeira , seeing Topaz as clearly as if she were sitting opposite him . |
| 15 | Lord Justice MacDermott said he would give judgement as soon as possible . |
| 16 | Finally , the restructuring school conceptualizes industry more clearly as capitalist . |
| 17 | However , my hair is beginning to look rather dull and I 'd like to get it back to peak condition as soon as possible . |
| 18 | This is often linked with a supposed denunciatory effect — the idea that the mandatory life sentence denounces murder as emphatically as possible — and with a supposed general deterrent effect , in declaring that there is no mitigation of sentence available for this crime . |
| 19 | This may be connected to the fact that the youngsters came bottom as far as hugs were concerned , as 57pc said their parents hugged them compared with a national average of 70pc . |
| 20 | ‘ Beineix dares much , pushing farce as far as it will go while simultaneously building the momentum that catapults the film into its tragic destination . |
| 21 | Later generations spread south as far as the tip of South America ; later still they reached similar latitudes in southern New Zealand . |
| 22 | Men like him were born with charm , exuded sensuality as unthinkingly as they breathed in air . |
| 23 | The Red Army units had their own dynamic and their own imperative — to reach Kaledin as swiftly as possible , regardless of peasant opinion . |
| 24 | The main emphasis was on encouraging the use of evidence extracted from former Mafia members , who would now give evidence as far as possible in front of the judge alone [ for other provisions see p. 38979 ] . |
| 25 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 26 | Then they make their ale from what they have collected , and those who do not come there to drink and do not give money at the foresters ' will are sorely punished at their pleas for dead wood , although the King has no demesne ; nor does anyone dare to brew when the foresters brew , or to sell ale so long as the foresters have any kind of ale to sell ; and this every forester does year by year to the great grievance of the country . |
| 27 | My only blurred thought was to reach shelter as soon as possible and the good belay spelt one word — abseil . |
| 28 | ‘ Although I do not speak English as well as I should , I did at one time know England well . |
| 29 | If he played golf as badly as that he 'd pack it in . |
| 30 | In the event , however , the groups which came to power in most of these countries determined to restore capitalism as quickly as possible , encouraged in this course by the swarms of ‘ free-marketeers ’ who descended upon them , notably from the US , Britain , Germany and the International Monetary Fund . |