Example sentences of "[to-vb] they as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mum gets a bit tired ; I go to see them as often as I can : it cheers Dad up , and Mum loves the children . ’ |
| 2 | I try to see them as often as I can . |
| 3 | Practitioners of such technically adept management , the new ‘ professional managers ’ of United States business schools , have recently been lambasted both for their failure to conceive strategies and to implement them as well as for their systematic choice of self-defeating strategies ( Hayes and Abernathy , 1980 ; see also Hayes and Wheelwright , 1984 ; Hayes et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | To ensure that his subjects acquired the habit of carrying out his instructions he had to visit them as often as possible , and although the king 's itinerary was normally publicized in advance — so that merchants and tradesmen , as well as petitioners , could frequent his court without difficulty — it was sometimes useful to turn up without warning . |
| 5 | Replacement adsorption pads cost around £5 for three and because of this expense , human nature being what it is , there is a tendency not to replace them as regularly as recommended . |
| 6 | Our task now is to work to persuade him to reverse them as soon as possible , so that legal aid can once again serve its purpose of enabling all those unable to afford legal advice and representation to have access to justice ’ . |
| 7 | I am working with them on what can be done to help them as soon as possible . ’ |
| 8 | Alfieri watched out for his clients and tried to help them as far as his job would allow . |
| 9 | There was a willingness to accept most of the new social and economic measures but to administer them as tightly as possible and to cut the cost of government . |
| 10 | But the fact that several critics began to challenge them as early as 1924 demonstrates that the campaign she had initiated in 1923 met with some success . |
| 11 | Fire crew have to free them as quickly as possible without injuring them further . |
| 12 | Even to get this much he had had to agree to a number of statutes which he construed as so prejudicial that he vowed to repeal them as soon as possible . |
| 13 | However , at a unit cost of 10p we want to use them as effectively as possible . |
| 14 | The aim of these and other schemes is to provide flexible cost-effective services responsive to the needs of the frail elderly and designed to keep them as long as possible in their own homes rather than an institutional environment . |
| 15 | Police have appealed for witnesses , and ask anyone in the vicinity of Mudchute Station between three o'clock and three-thirty this afternoon to contact them as soon as possible . ’ |
| 16 | A young child faced with a row of cups and a pile of saucers might have no other way of finding whether he has enough saucers to put with the cups than to match them as far as possible , one-to-one . |
| 17 | It also demonstrates that the findings of research support a coherent policy to identify family needs at times of stress and develop services and good practice to match them as far as possible . |
| 18 | Now go and try to execute them as precisely as drawn ! |
| 19 | The best solution to bristleworms is to remove them as soon as possible when setting up a tank , perhaps by quarantining living rock and corals before introduction into the display tank . |
| 20 | We had several pieces of rolling stock stored at Councillor Jim McBriar 's farm , and as he was considering selling the land on which they were sitting , we were asked to remove them as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | The easiest and most commonly used method was to ignore them as far as possible . |
| 22 | For example , loud clothing will create the disturbing feeling among the Japanese businessmen that the foreigner has perhaps failed to take them as seriously as he might have , by failing to observe that the common practice in dress in Japan is some degree of formality . |
| 23 | The brewers of these beers want to produce them as fast as possible and use chemical additives to speed up fermentation , cut down on yeast head to get more liquid into the fermenters and to produce a beer with a thick head of foam . |
| 24 | Here it is important with all clients including elderly people to involve them as far as possible in the advocacy process , otherwise the client may end up feeling even more powerless , while some determined advocacy is undertaken on his/her behalf . |