Example sentences of "[adv] little as possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pay the employer as little as possible to take the trainee in the first place and then charge him as much as possible to train the trainee on his behalf . |
| 2 | I expect he hoped to have as little as possible to do with her , but when she made a dead set at him , as she did at all young married men , that was no longer possible . |
| 3 | Like their ancestors , the Mennonites still shunned buttons and pockets , relying on hooks and eyes ; they refused cars and engines , preferring horsepower ; the Mennonites nevertheless reclaimed land from the river and sea , regulated the flood planes and wanted as little as possible to do with the evils of the outside world . |
| 4 | But Diana has refused a personal invitation from the Queen to the church service and Christmas lunch — a clear signal that she wants as little as possible to do with the rest of the royals . |
| 5 | Planning for the future care of your children can be particularly stressful if you are someone who wants to have as little as possible to do with social services and other authorities , or if you have had a bad experience with them in the past . |
| 6 | Seaman comments that that presentation Another and concordant view is recorded by Lichtheim : Lichtheim goes on to quote Pease , then Secretary of the Fabian Society , as saying : ‘ We were thus in a position to welcome the formation of working class Socialist societies , but it is certain that they would never have welcomed us ’ ; and to add , perhaps unkindly : ‘ Beatrice Potter — a rich , spoiled , arrogant young woman with more beauty than brains — was determined to have as little as possible to do with the working class . ’ |
| 7 | Industrialists never liked financiers much , and established industrialists tried to have as little as possible to do with bankers . |