Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [adv] as possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I urge him to press for a return to traditional standards of teaching in our primary schools as soon as possible ? |
| 2 | The Conservative Group put forward proposals to give this power to the schools as soon as possible , as Councillor did say , and many of our schools took advantage , around fifty percent I believe . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Meanwhile at least one offspring of the NPA flourishes — the ‘ English Through Activity ’ programme in Swaziland , where I found similar activity and enthusiasm in schools , talked to a committed supervisor who saw her role entirely as getting her materials — including issues of English Ladybird books — to rural schools as efficiently as possible and of encouraging ‘ active learning ’ , ( but of what and why she took little heed ) . |
| 5 | Paragraph , earlier reply will be , be appreciated as I want to finalize the Aran price for the units as soon as possible , best regards , Sam . |
| 6 | Arrange your units as deeply as possible . |
| 7 | 4 Try to slap your heels against your thighs as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | In the summary table the tasks are briefly described in words as far as possible . |
| 9 | I helped him sit down on the one centre thwart and arranged his legs as comfortably as possible , Harry cursing and wincing by turns . |
| 10 | Sit on a chair , slip off your shoes , and keeping your legs as still as possible , slowly revolve each foot in turn , drawing an imaginary circle with your toes . |
| 11 | You should remove the cichlids as soon as possible and transfer them to a separate tank which is set-up specifically for African cichlids , or take them back to the place you bought them . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'll speak to our insurers as soon as possible . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ That legislation has yet to be introduced to Parliament , ’ said Mr Naish adding that delays could give rise to further problems and he had urged Mr Howard to get it onto the statute books as urgently as possible . |
| 14 | The two essays on Stead are among the best here , since they fulfil the reviewer 's prime duty — they make you want to read the books as soon as possible , in the light of the genuine enthusiasm they convey . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When these are violated in his painting , it is because the pictorial theory involved conflicted with his intensely visual and empirical approach , and with his desire to reconstruct the three-dimensional form of his subjects as fully as possible . |
| 17 | ‘ All of us have to do more in order to get the deportees back to their homes as soon as possible , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Most formal carers want to allow old people to remain in their homes as long as possible . |
| 19 | As part of the growing concept of community care , spelt out in the 1963 Health and Welfare : the Development of Community Care plans , many authorities have recognized that the physically disabled , like the elderly , usually want to retain their independence and avoid entering homes as long as possible . |
| 20 | Local authorities now support elderly people in their own homes as far as possible , or in the local authority homes in the areas in which they live , so that they may be near to relatives and friends and their old associations . |
| 21 | Since the recent introduction of the Children 's Act , the aim has been to work more closely with the natural parents , with a view to returning youngsters to their own homes as quickly as possible . |
| 22 | Please send entries as soon as possible . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The incomplete , sluggish and/or mistaken adjustments to changing economic signals that can be found in the Keynesian and monetarist short-run situations are removed from the new classical world by economic agents ' incentives and their ability to use full information to adjust to any new configuration of nominal variables as rapidly as possible . |
| 25 | If you have only one funnel , test the other soils as soon as possible after the first is finished . |
| 26 | When children have been removed , positive efforts should be made to rehabilitate them with their parents as soon as possible . |
| 27 | ‘ He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending . |
| 28 | He left home as early as possible , did well in his career and visited his parents as seldom as possible . |
| 29 | Despite the school 's stated intention to involve parents as far as possible , I seriously doubted whether Mr or Mrs Singh would be capable or prepared to enter into the kind of partnership the school envisaged . |
| 30 | By using computer technology , James Capel 's FT-SE 100 Index Fund aims to match the performance of the index of the UK 's top 100 companies as closely as possible . |