Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [adv] as possible " in BNC.
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| 31 | We have turned this Council round , reflecting as closely as possible the values that the community expressed in the local elections of May 1990 and May 1991 . |
| 32 | It seems that Manners was anxious to press ahead with building as quickly as possible in an attempt to pre-empt the Opposition from changing the scheme if they returned to power . |
| 33 | ‘ Coming as soon as Possible . |
| 34 | The post is initially for a period of two years , commencing as soon as possible . |
| 35 | We must screw the lid on spending as tightly as possible , so that a true and proper comparison can be made between the old rates system , uprated to match current spending , the poll tax charge , and the new council tax . |
| 36 | Since then I have realised that the best way of avoiding publicity is to proclaim everything you are doing as loudly as possible . |
| 37 | If you are made redundant try to get some sort of retraining as fast as possible , before you lose your nerve . |
| 38 | Also train on the punch bag , aiming your kicks as high as you can and reaching as far as possible . |
| 39 | In part it was done by exploiting as fully as possible many small miscellaneous sources of income , such as fines on recusants and the revenue of vacant episcopal sees ; in part by careful and economic management — the household expenses were kept rigidly down in an age of inflation and the building of royal palaces was brought to an end ; in part by rewarding courtiers and officials from wardships and monopolies . |
| 40 | He tried to broaden the base of support for the government , relying as far as possible on legal processes in restraining the press and arresting suspects , sacking the hated Minister of Education , Tolstoy , and planning steps to alleviate the burden of redemption payments on the hardest-pressed peasants . |
| 41 | Albert had started talking as loudly as possible to the children . |
| 42 | Unfortunately , his brave decision to keep the game flowing as often as possible resulted in too many players getting away with too much . |
| 43 | In the pages that follow , I 'll be trying as frankly as possible to tell you something about myself — my childhood in Devon and Cornwall , my days as a newspaper reporter and those as a lance-corporal in the army ( not to mention the occasional hazardous romance in up-market Port Said ! ) and then , since 1961 , my career in television . |
| 44 | Such conscientious couples even tried to share the child bearing as far as possible . |
| 45 | Empathizing as far as possible with his hosts , the anthropological research worker seeks to seize the essence of life around him and to incarnate its animating spirit . |
| 46 | Benstede , who returned looking untidy with streaks of dirt on his face , muttered that he had been manhandled , probably by the French , and was intent on leaving as soon as possible . |
| 47 | Pearn returned from Simla in the early part of 1945 and it was decided that both he and I should stay with the Department , go with it when the civil government returned to Burma , and get it working as effectively as possible . |
| 48 | The subject then sorted the cards into various classes , working as quickly as possible without making mistakes . |
| 49 | ‘ In no way is it a finishing line , ’ said Hugh , who intends to continue working as long as possible . |
| 50 | Safe : Distribution systems need to be safe in their own right and to facilitate or even promote safe working as far as possible . |
| 51 | I always seem to get the wrong results even though I 'm working as hard as possible . |
| 52 | My hon. Friend is correct — it must make sense to have pay bargaining as near as possible to the point and location of work so as to make the labour market work as efficiently as possible and to reward people as fairly as possible . |
| 53 | Satisfied , he pulled back the canvas sheet , replaced the tallow candle , genuflected towards the sanctuary and left the church , Cranston following as quickly as possible . |
| 54 | We are committed to legislating as soon as possible on a new scheme to protect hedgerows and to notify the intention to grub up . |
| 55 | In each case , the solution involves balancing the competing claims of each subprocess , thereby ensuring as far as possible that each subprocess is allowed to contribute to the overall interpretation task as fully as it is able to , while not being forced to make decisions for which it , on its own , has insufficient evidence . |
| 56 | to secure the relevance , reliability and integrity of information , so ensuring as far as possible the completeness and accuracy of records ; |
| 57 | One aim of experiments is to search for a compact spelling which can show sound and meaning as directly as possible , meet the needs of all who learn and use it , and is still close to existing spelling which has , so to speak , been ‘ cleaned up ’ . |
| 58 | We need a balanced methodology in reducing as quickly as possible the number of victims and the number of abusers within the care system . |
| 59 | Having stressed the importance of reducing as far as possible the number of permissible reasons for refusal , the authors refer to the cited ground , which they admit has no precedent in international agreements on judicial assistance . |
| 60 | All he wanted was a ‘ getaway car ’ to take him away from the zebra crossing as fast as possible because , when he jumped into my life , he was being chased by a whole gang armed with crossbows and intent on target practice . |