Example sentences of "[vb pp] as soon as [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Full advantage should also be taken of the payment on account scheme and all eligible disbursements should be claimed as soon as they are incurred .
2 The French Agriculture Minister , Henri Nallet , said that the ban , which his United Kingdom counterpart John Gummer described as " unwarranted , unjustified and contrary to EC law " , would be lifted as soon as he had satisfactory guarantees that BSE ( not hitherto officially confirmed in French cattle ) posed no threat to human health .
3 Moreover , some senior research directors are particularly chagrined by credits which are frozen as soon as they are granted .
4 Mm because his account was frozen as soon as he put his card in it took it in !
5 The peculiar phrase , forgotten as soon as she had put away her school Latin textbooks , made an idiosyncratic return .
6 The Sid incident was probably forgotten as soon as he was carried away .
7 But after August 23 he no longer wanted to continue ; the present was best forgotten as soon as it slipped into the past .
8 ‘ Well , have it installed as soon as you can .
9 Roofs should be repaired as soon as they show signs of trouble — check for slipped slates and tiles , failed flashings around chimney stacks and damage to the chimney stack itself .
10 She 'd been planning to have it repaired as soon as she could afford to , for , although she knew she could have claimed the cost through her insurance , she could n't afford to lose her no-claims bonus .
11 It is essential that a transmitter can be inactivated as soon as it has conveyed its message ; if it were not so , the system would be clogged or would receive needless repetitions of the same message .
12 ‘ It seems she does ; you would n't persist in a story that will be disproved as soon as I meet Mr and Mrs Smith , but I do n't believe you 're identical twins .
13 The catch was usually gutted as soon as it came on board , and the gulls would go in a flock from boat to boat , cleaning up the discards .
14 " So what would you normally have done as soon as you arrived if this had been an ordinary Thursday ?
15 And give them , done them as soon as you like , get done as soon as you like .
16 Which , if she 'd thought about it , she realised she should have done as soon as she 'd seen the dog making for her — rather than idiotically go forward the way she had .
17 Was this what she had felt as soon as she had seen him — a man who would interfere with her life ?
18 ‘ You 'll have to get a photo of it when it 's finished , ’ Ian Jones said as he finished the meal of fish , salad and chips that Belinda had prepared as soon as she arrived .
19 ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind .
20 you were really kicking your heels and erm quite apart from which in the winter time the er conditions were pretty grim because they had the erm anti-splinter netting over the windows and erm big blinds which had to be drawn as soon as it was dusk because er , of course you were n't allowed to show a light and erm if that was it became really thick
21 So we 'll have to have that cleaned as soon as we get there .
22 We just got told as soon as we turned up that the course was cut with immediate effect .
23 We just got told as soon as we turned up that the course was cut with immediate effect .
24 Plans must be made , but they will not be achieved unless activities are monitored , and deviations from plan identified and corrected as soon as they become apparent .
25 Learning is not always used as soon as it is acquired : Edward Tolman gave experimental evidence for this latent learning .
26 Marzipan can be used as soon as it is made , but keep unused quantities well wrapped in aluminium foil or cling film in a cool place , preferably the refrigerator .
27 It needs to be used as soon as it is made , however , as it quickly becomes too tough to handle and shape .
28 Then the great figure was gone , swallowed as soon as it turned , into the drifting dark .
29 Such organisations are flexible and constantly changing : they adapt to the environment in order to create or maintain the conditions necessary for success in the task , and do not become a mere part of the machinery as , for example , project teams are disbanded as soon as their task has been completed .
30 The child is rewarded as soon as he/she manages to imitate all or part of the model .
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