Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] as [adv] [conj] possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will ensure that the card is returned or re-issued as quickly as possible . |
| 2 | Our aim is to ensure that food is wholesome , of high quality and produced as economically as possible and to ensure that , not only in the United Kingdom but in the export market , people have the benefits of an outstanding product . |
| 3 | A less obvious and regrettably a more common example is where students are presented throughout the course with bodies of facts and procedures to be remembered and applied as faithfully as possible ; then in the final testing they are assessed on their ability to apply their knowledge and skills to new situations , or to explain , justify and discuss the reasons behind procedures . |
| 4 | Instead , I invested in my future by buying a word processor and kept on those visits from counsellor and healer and maintained as far as possible — even over Christmas itself — my ‘ stay well ’ diet . |
| 5 | I waved my arms and shouted as loudly as possible . |
| 6 | The oppressive regime I had anticipated was not apparent and the whole complex seemed clean , active and designed as far as possible to provide reasonable conditions and amenities for its inmates . |
| 7 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 8 | In all these activities the place of the elderly client in the family network should be maintained and enhanced as far as possible . |
| 9 | We obtained directions and drove as rapidly as possible to the rival meeting . |
| 10 | I do n't need food ’ , and the sub-text , admitted only to myself and ignored as far as possible , read , ‘ I 'm starving . ’ |
| 11 | He hovered about the site restlessly , like one barefoot on thorns , all the while they were removing the debris of sagging , uprooted broom bushes , which Orrie phlegmatically loaded into a handcart and wheeled away along the riverside path to be unloaded and burned as far as possible from the sacred precincts . |
| 12 | The form should be completed and returned as soon as possible to the North-Eastern Education and Library Board . |
| 13 | Eden also argued that we should not distinguish between the Soviet government and any other allied government , but his overriding conclusion was that : " It is most important that our own prisoners in Germany and Poland be well cared for and returned as soon as possible . |
| 14 | This can be achieved as follows : ( 1 ) Management form Newco and hold all its issued share capital ( which will be nominal in amount and subscribed as early as possible for reasons described in 4.3.2 above ) . |
| 15 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |
| 16 | It is essential that proper planned maintenance of equipment is carried out at the recommended time and is correctly recorded , and rectified as quickly as possible , stating the remedial action taken . |
| 17 | Newsround felt it was worthwhile to give readers information about the efforts that are being made by the Council to ensure its views on reform are known and presented as effectively as possible . |
| 18 | He did , however , ask to see and approve the proposed wording , and on 30 December sent some comments on the proofs accompanied by a brisk command to ‘ get this sorted out and cleared as soon as possible ’ . |
| 19 | Felipe eyed Maggie sceptically and spoke as little as possible . |
| 20 | Delinquency can be seen , depending on perceptions of society and its organization , as the result of poverty , deprivation and inequity , or as a personal iniquity to be identified , punished and discouraged as firmly as possible . |