Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , the tents were furnished as comfortably as possible : iron bedsteads and hot water were provided for Cook 's tourists . |
| 2 | Economic controls were lifted as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | In particular it wanted to ensure that British nuclear thinking , planning , targeting and developments as a whole evolved along lines which were compatible with and were harnessed as far as possible to fit in with its own requirements . |
| 4 | The action and control areas were carefully selected so that they were matched as far as possible in terms both of the number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service in the previous year , and of 1981 census data on the number of elderly people resident , particularly those aged 80 and over , the housing amenities of elderly people and the proportion of elderly people living alone ( see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 5 | The early canals were contour canals , winding about for miles in order to circumvent a hill ; but the later ones were made as straight as possible by means of cuttings and embankments . |
| 6 | Oh , the patient looked a mess , but Kath had seen the enormous care that had gone into the alignment of each suture , the meticulous attention not only to the innumerable tiny little muscle fibres , nerves and blood vessels but to laughter lines and wrinkles to ensure that the tissues were realigned as closely as possible to their original position . |
| 7 | Small tissue blocks of Peyer 's patches and the surrounding mucosa at some distance were excised as soon as possible ( less than two hours ) after collection , and were fixed in cold ethanol ( 96% ) and then embedded in low melting paraffin wax . |
| 8 | Urine specimens were processed as soon as possible after collection , both in the UK and the Gambia , and titratable acidity was determined by titration of each urine specimen to pH 7.4 . |
| 9 | Roman cities were planned as far as possible symmetrically on a grid system , although in the case of existing towns which they took over , or of hill sites , geographical problems made this difficult . |
| 10 | Shortage of newsprint was another link , and I was constantly in touch with Singapore , London and Calcutta about supplies , which when they came were divided as fairly as possible between ourselves and the independent newspapers . |
| 11 | On 17 April 1764 , he finally got the go-ahead , providing of course that the new building was erected as economically as possible . |
| 12 | At the other end of the school , in the first year of the Halls , close links were established with the many primary schools ( some of them tiny ) which sent eleven-year-olds to the school , and the style of teaching for that first year was aligned as closely as possible with the more effective primary-school practices . |
| 13 | Tied cottages , indeed , performed much the same function as the closed village in Victorian times , by enabling farmers to ensure that their expenditure on housing was limited as far as possible to guaranteeing their own labour requirements . |
| 14 | Government accepted responsibility for keeping aggregate monetary demand at a level sufficient to ensure full employment or what was considered as far as possible to constitute full employment ( an unemployment rate of 1% or 2% was considered acceptable ) , and the annual Budget was to be used as the main instrument of economic policy . |
| 15 | Each child born with a defect was matched as closely as possible to a healthy infant born in the same hospital , at the same time . |
| 16 | Great care was taken to see that this work was disseminated as widely as possible . |
| 17 | Reddy employed the same technique as Johansson to arrive at the least expensive energy — first estimating needs , then filling them through sources of power and energy efficiency , starting with the cheapest method , and when that was used as fully as possible , moving to the next cheapest . |
| 18 | To ensure that this was accomplished as effectively as possible there should be positive discrimination in favour of those who have special needs . |
| 19 | This guiding principle of participant observation — that the observer should be part of the setting which he or she is studying — was followed as closely as possible in the other communities . |
| 20 | The front door was slammed as loudly as possible , causing Sarah to wince . |
| 21 | Volume-cycled nasal positive pressure ventilation was started as soon as possible in the NIPPV group with either a Lifecare PLV 100 ( Lifecare , Lafayette , Colorado , USA ) in the assist-control mode , or a Brompton-PAC ( PneuPAC Ltd , Luton , Beds , UK ) . |
| 22 | It was necessary , if we were to meet the target of 1 April 1993 for introduction of the tax , to ensure that the first step towards the levying of the tax — the valuation of properties — was begun as soon as possible . |
| 23 | When the number of new writerships , cadetships and surgeoncies which would be required became known each year , the total was divided as evenly as possible into thirty shares . |
| 24 | Now local conference usually was held as quickly as possible erm but when you went to local conference as an official , you were then faced with obviously the employer who was concerned in the case , an independent chairman of the employers , but a battery of other members of the employers ' association who were unattached to the actual claim itself . |
| 25 | The cabinet was informed as late as possible ; even ministers on the poll-tax review committee were not told what was coming . |