Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] as [adv] as possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
| 2 | Women in developing countries are generally undereducated because young girls are often taken out of schools as early as possible to allow their mothers to work whilst they take care of younger siblings . |
| 3 | Companies were advised to get out of dogs as soon as possible . |
| 4 | My objective — and , of course , this was one imposed upon me by my professionalism and by the need to clear the ground of rabbits as thoroughly as possible — was first to dispose of the bolting rabbits and then to continue by digging out as many of the remainder as possible . |
| 5 | Now that scientific tests of the new sidehandled baton have been completed , they will be tried out by a number of forces as soon as possible . |
| 6 | Gabriel followed the even pattern of pawmarks as far as possible : they carried his eye up to a distant knoll crowned with trees and wounded with great white scars of bare chalk . |
| 7 | NERC is in a situation in which it can not please every department , and it can only achieve a limited degree of acceptability by adopting the negative posture of being seen not to be unfair to particular departments ( hence spreading small numbers of grants as widely as possible ) . |
| 8 | The immediate future of the school was discussed at an emergency meeting this morning , the intention is to get the ninety pupils back behind desks as soon as possible . |
| 9 | About a quarter of the refugees are living in camps and the government plans to incorporate then into co-operatives as soon as possible . |
| 10 | In the summary table the tasks are briefly described in words as far as possible . |
| 11 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | All snakes prefer to retreat from predators as quickly as possible , but if cornered will then use their lightning strike as a form of protection . |
| 13 | Something has to be done about the imbalances in the city 's health services in order to provide better value for Londoners as quickly as possible and to lay the foundations for future development . |
| 14 | If your puppy is one of the few to suffer from travel sickness , it is best to get it started on tablets as soon as possible . |
| 15 | There are two possibilities : either to exploit the existing key order — if that is possible — or to completely destroy that order , and to allocate keys to addresses as randomly as possible . |
| 16 | It was essential to get the engine to pieces as soon as possible to stop further corrosion . |
| 17 | They scurry quickly across the table , keen to get to grips as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | Senior ministers are determined that the major lenders will pass on the cuts to customers as soon as possible . |
| 19 | But the other echo which really gripped me was his reference to some of the Imperial flights down the Gulf that were not as straightforward and as simple as they are today , I speak now of when I was awakened from my afternoon siesta by someone from the guardroom telling me to get down to flights as quickly as possible and have my overnight gear with me . |
| 20 | The agreement will usually contain provisions requiring the acquirer to notify any events which may give rise to claims as soon as possible and to allow the seller to investigate and perhaps handle any third party claim . |
| 21 | It may well be cheaper , however , to use the existing ships to hunt for whales as vigorously as possible and if the whales go extinct — well , scrap the ships and invest in some other business ! |
| 22 | She called for an exposure of the headhunting industry as a whole , accusing consultants of a variety of sins : of perpetuating another form of updated old-boy network , of ignorance about systematic interviewing practice , of poor report writing , of rushing through assignments as quickly as possible and of an inability to handle complex , highly specialist assignments : they would either fail to find anyone or send someone completely unsuitable . |
| 23 | He stressed that it was essential for Balbinder to start at Cedars as soon as possible , if he was going to catch up . |
| 24 | FRS 3 , Reporting Financial Performance , issued last October , should be adopted by companies as soon as possible , and regarded as standard for financial statements relating to reporting periods ending on or after 22 June 1993 . |