Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] far as possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we care about other people — and if we want so far as possible to affirm other people — we shall walk warily before dismissing out of hand , discourteously or clumsily , what is deeply meaningful to them . |
| 2 | The tunnel is designed as far as possible to stay within the chalk marl but the alignment is constrained by the geometric requirements of a high speed railway including a minimum horizontal curvature of 4,200m and a maximum gradient of just under 1% . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | In particular it wanted to ensure that British nuclear thinking , planning , targeting and developments as a whole evolved along lines which were compatible with and were harnessed as far as possible to fit in with its own requirements . |
| 7 | Government accepted responsibility for keeping aggregate monetary demand at a level sufficient to ensure full employment or what was considered as far as possible to constitute full employment ( an unemployment rate of 1% or 2% was considered acceptable ) , and the annual Budget was to be used as the main instrument of economic policy . |
| 8 | The administration of these services is decentralised as far as possible to conform with these areas in more accessible mini-town halls . |
| 9 | I shall try as far as possible to discuss matters of principle rather than of particular detail . |
| 10 | We try as far as possible to relate the work we do in the Technical Department to what goes on in industry and commerce . |
| 11 | As you do so , try as far as possible to keep to the basic sense of the passage . |
| 12 | In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so . |
| 13 | She wished so far as possible to respect in her dominions the rights of the provincial estates , the greatest bastions of resistance to change . |
| 14 | I wanted as far as possible to forearm the boy at the beginning of adolescence — not ramming a weapon into his hand willy-nilly , but showing him the size and shape of it and where it lies in such a way that he would take it up without realizing he was doing so and find himself using it when he needed to . |