Example sentences of "[vb past] as [adv] [conj] possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waved my arms and shouted as loudly as possible . |
| 2 | They innovated as far as possible under the 1948 Act but eventually secured a further Act , in 1963 , which legitimated ‘ preventive ’ work . |
| 3 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In our first Report we tried as far as possible to avoid the word ‘ grammar ’ , and to explain how important it was for children to use linguistic terminology . |
| 6 | ‘ The measure as revised by the committee tried as hard as possible to accommodate the views of those who object to women priests . |
| 7 | To Branson 's irritation , McLaren prevaricated as long as possible , affecting the disinterest of an ingénue being courted by a philanderer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |
| 11 | In all these activities the place of the elderly client in the family network should be maintained and enhanced as far as possible . |
| 12 | We obtained directions and drove as rapidly as possible to the rival meeting . |
| 13 | I do n't need food ’ , and the sub-text , admitted only to myself and ignored as far as possible , read , ‘ I 'm starving . ’ |
| 14 | He was mostly on the defensive and , towards the end , he came as near as possible to resignation , but throughout he gave remarkably little ground on either issue . |
| 15 | All this reinforced Attlee 's determination to get a new governor installed as soon as possible . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've got 19 players with contracts up for renewal and want a new manager installed as quickly as possible , ’ he said . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All entries will be acknowledged and the results advised as soon as possible . |
| 19 | ‘ If something goes wrong with a customer 's car they want it repaired as quickly as possible , ’ said Peugeot Parts and Service Director Charles Greenland . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | He arranged as quickly as possible for the vault under the House of Lords to be vacated by its tenant and the news that it was available for renting to be passed to the associates of Guy Fawkes . |
| 22 | They followed as far as possible in the time available , the practices and procedures of the permanent parliamentary boundary commission , indeed of the six members of the committees , five were members of the parliamentary boundary commissions and they were appointed to the committees after consultation with the opposition parties . |
| 23 | The meeting Reccommend to Mr. McNiell of Ardnacross to get the Church yeard Dyke of Kildalton finished as soon as possible … |
| 24 | The form should be completed and returned as soon as possible to the North-Eastern Education and Library Board . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The broad native roads made as straight as possible for their mark , like the roads of the Romans , seem to pick out preferentially the highest and steepest hills , which they ascend perpendicularly and without compromise . |
| 27 | Visits to Exeter he made as rarely as possible . |
| 28 | Luce asked as casually as possible . |
| 29 | We checked as far as possible the information for the cases listed in tables 2.1 to 2.4 of the Black report ; in table III cross references are given to the cases listed in these tables of the Black report and , when necessary , the information has been corrected . |
| 30 | When that failed , the country resorted as far as possible to the conditions prevailing prior to its creation . |