Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] as far [subord] possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem sensible , therefore , to try and avoid using them as far as possible . |
| 2 | I put one foot on his shoulder and as I climbed up , making room for him , he raised himself and finally stood on the platform , helping me as far as possible . |
| 3 | Both groups have an interest in maintaining the capitalist system , but the professional-managerial class have an interest in maximizing its own independence or autonomy ; the ruling class , on the other hand , try to restrict it as far as possible . |
| 4 | She exacerbates all his old anxieties and feelings of ambivalence towards ‘ mothers ’ , and because he can not cope , he defends himself by ignoring her as far as possible . |
| 5 | Orphaned at a very early age , he is brought up ‘ by hand ’ by his shrewish sister , Mrs Joe , the wife of the village blacksmith , Joe Gargery , who loves him and protects him as far as possible from his sister 's tyranny . |
| 6 | A young child faced with a row of cups and a pile of saucers might have no other way of finding whether he has enough saucers to put with the cups than to match them as far as possible , one-to-one . |
| 7 | It also demonstrates that the findings of research support a coherent policy to identify family needs at times of stress and develop services and good practice to match them as far as possible . |
| 8 | The fact that this revelation would doubtless be made in a context of privacy and confidentiality so as to insulate him as far as possible from the prying eyes of scandalmongers may not reduce his desire to put actual and legal distance between himself and his spouse . |
| 9 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 10 | In such emergency situations your dog will be frightened anyway , and you will need to protect yourself as far as possible against being bitten . |
| 11 | He was not a tall man and was soon almost dwarfed by his five lively , wryly humorous sons , who avoided him as far as possible and could not leave home soon enough . |
| 12 | They use delinquent criteria in order to distance themselves as far as possible from conventional ones , and hence insulate themselves from a sense of failure . |
| 13 | Danquah 's evidence was somewhat defensive , even apologetic : Nkrumah felt that their intention was to distance themselves as far as possible from his pronouncements and actions . |
| 14 | The prison inspectorate gives the project full support and urges the governor to continue to develop it as far as possible within the constraints of the Penninghame regime . |
| 15 | After all , the stuff has to go somewhere : why not put it as far as possible from people , where it poses no threat to drinking water and little threat ( fisheries apart ) to food ? |
| 16 | It was a small shed , rather like a Dutch oven in shape , set well up into the prow to remove it as far as possible from the passengers ' cabins . |
| 17 | If there is a good argument for producing your own acted scenes with non-actors , try to give them roles similar to their own in real life so that they can play themselves as far as possible . |
| 18 | The easiest and most commonly used method was to ignore them as far as possible . |
| 19 | She had chosen , he reflected aggrievedly , to ignore him as far as possible . |
| 20 | Though I am resigning myself as far as possible to the will of God , you will surely find it quite human and natural that my tears almost prevent me from writing … |
| 21 | Here it is important with all clients including elderly people to involve them as far as possible in the advocacy process , otherwise the client may end up feeling even more powerless , while some determined advocacy is undertaken on his/her behalf . |
| 22 | When the person throws the ball , the batter hits it as far as possible and then sets off to run round the obstacle placed at right angles . |