Example sentences of "their [noun pl] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They moved towards the left-hand urn , sliding through the crowd of their superiors as smoothly as serpents in the garden . |
| 2 | The purpose was to prevent crowding of BES issues at the end of the tax year , but the ceiling limit meant that investors putting up the full 140,000 still made most of their investments as near as they could to 5th April . |
| 3 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 4 | They could save their pennies as far as this one is concerned . |
| 5 | First , it is to assist people to resolve their disputes as easily as possible and , secondly , it should enable the making or declaring of law that applies in those disputes . |
| 6 | ‘ All of us have to do more in order to get the deportees back to their homes as soon as possible , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Most formal carers want to allow old people to remain in their homes as long as possible . |
| 8 | She enjoyed their company , although she did not read their books as closely as they might have wished , for she had a strong and idiosyncratic sense of history , particularly of the Stuart period ( like my grandfather , she was a descendant of Charles II , in her case from Nell Gwyn , in his from Lucy Walter ) . |
| 9 | Individualised programmes , alternative activities and simplified worksheets , when they are directed at certain children can cut them off from their peers as effectively as if they had been withdrawn . |
| 10 | Safeway and ASDA are introducing free-range products to their shelves as quickly as they can . |
| 11 | The job required the smallest possible team , for maximum mobility and minimum social impact , capable of staying for indefinite periods in unexplored territory amongst barely known peoples , while eating their food , speaking their language and sharing their lives as intimately as possible . |
| 12 | Being mostly mechanical in operation , these recorders had their limitations as far as accuracy was concerned . |
| 13 | When children have been removed , positive efforts should be made to rehabilitate them with their parents as soon as possible . |
| 14 | Only 5 per cent of the children saw their parents as often as once a month ; 41 per cent had no parental contact . |
| 15 | This is a Labour amendment it is up to them now to implement it implement it within existing budgets is what it says and we shall see whether they take their responsibilities as seriously as they should . |
| 16 | We are not just talking power-dressing for women ; Armani makes men look even better than the fairer sex in a way that 's so thoroughly macho it 's no wonder the world 's aggro merchants have taken him to their hearts as eagerly as Hollywood 's glitterati . |
| 17 | The Bar code of conduct requires that those who appear should use their powers as responsibly as the interests of justice may reasonably allow . |
| 18 | Commenting on these provisions in a case in which , through no fault of the plaintiff , process had failed to reach a defendant in France until some two months after the leaving date , a Dutch court said that ‘ the Convention subordinates the interests of plaintiffs in enforcing their rights as quickly as possible against foreign defendants to the latter 's interest in having an opportunity of defending themselves ’ . |
| 19 | I mean I think that 's extremely important to allow children to erm you know play things out in the best way that they which is in a sense their way of coming to terms with things erm and to answer their questions as honestly as I can and to admit it when I do n't know the answers erm and also , I mean in our family we 've taken various actions to try to stop the war and we 've , you know , taken part in demonstrations and written letters and erm |
| 20 | Even if I had no longer been able to see the real images in my mind I could see their representations as clearly as if they hung before me , and the two were beginning to run together . |
| 21 | Both , when smiling , underwent a total transformation that illuminated an unsuspected streak of gaiety in their characters as successfully as it illuminated their eyes . |
| 22 | As the signing session spots for this year 's fair will be limited , publishers are asked to submit their suggestions as soon as possible to at Powerhouse , , or to at Dillons Marketing on . |
| 23 | A senior Garda source in north Donegal said : ‘ These traffic lights could be used for subversive or sinister purposes and we are anxious to trace their whereabouts as soon as possible . ’ |
| 24 | These players will wear their prices as conspicuously as the plugs for Rank Xerox , Mars , Esso , Candy which , even on the field , keep them locked into the culture of commercial transactions . |
| 25 | The policy paper of March 2 , A Safer Britain for Women , sets forth the core of Labour 's programme to interpose the state between men and women , artificially dividing them and their interests as effectively as , on a larger scale , it plans to prise apart the peoples of the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | He explained that as vicar of a large parish he had many and constant duties to perform , but that his interest in the deaf was so great that he would find time to advance their interests as far as he could . |
| 27 | The roads are the lifeline of Sutherland : they aim for their destinations as directly as the territory permits , their purposeful progression not deflected by offshoots and alternatives . |
| 28 | Corbett nodded at the two hard-faced Sub-prioresses and went to order Ranulf and Maltote to saddle their horses as swiftly as possible . |
| 29 | Making no concessions to the concept of melody , the band members blasted away at their instruments as loud as they could . |
| 30 | If so , could you return their records as soon as possible ? |