Example sentences of "their [noun] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They moved towards the left-hand urn , sliding through the crowd of their superiors as smoothly as serpents in the garden . |
| 2 | The purpose was to prevent crowding of BES issues at the end of the tax year , but the ceiling limit meant that investors putting up the full 140,000 still made most of their investments as near as they could to 5th April . |
| 3 | Of course , for family companies , such tax planning may have to be balanced against the shareholders ' natural desire to have their money as soon as possible ! |
| 4 | This form of destabilizing speculation took place in the hyper-inflation of Germany in the 1920s , as people spent their money as quickly as possible . ) |
| 5 | The chairman of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News announced in his 1986 annual report that ‘ The Times now has a cost structure much lower than our own … we must get our own costs down to their level as soon as possible ’ . |
| 6 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 7 | They could save their pennies as far as this one is concerned . |
| 8 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 9 | ‘ We hope they will reach their decision as soon as possible , because it is not the sort of thing we like to have hanging over us . ’ |
| 10 | Their duty under the rules is to make their decision as soon as practicable . |
| 11 | The Government are currently considering the findings of the recent review of meat hygiene enforcement and will announce their decision as soon as possible . |
| 12 | First , it is to assist people to resolve their disputes as easily as possible and , secondly , it should enable the making or declaring of law that applies in those disputes . |
| 13 | ‘ All of us have to do more in order to get the deportees back to their homes as soon as possible , ’ he said . |
| 14 | There can not be many women who run their homes as efficiently and as mechanically as a factory , or to the kind of strict timetables that the domestic manuals printed a generation or two ago would have us follow . |
| 15 | Most formal carers want to allow old people to remain in their homes as long as possible . |
| 16 | She enjoyed their company , although she did not read their books as closely as they might have wished , for she had a strong and idiosyncratic sense of history , particularly of the Stuart period ( like my grandfather , she was a descendant of Charles II , in her case from Nell Gwyn , in his from Lucy Walter ) . |
| 17 | Individualised programmes , alternative activities and simplified worksheets , when they are directed at certain children can cut them off from their peers as effectively as if they had been withdrawn . |
| 18 | They weep openly and harrowingly , unlike middle-class parents who are seldom willing to appear , seeing their grief as more private . |
| 19 | ‘ We have to hope they complete their work as soon as possible , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Safeway and ASDA are introducing free-range products to their shelves as quickly as they can . |
| 21 | The job required the smallest possible team , for maximum mobility and minimum social impact , capable of staying for indefinite periods in unexplored territory amongst barely known peoples , while eating their food , speaking their language and sharing their lives as intimately as possible . |
| 22 | Being mostly mechanical in operation , these recorders had their limitations as far as accuracy was concerned . |
| 23 | One of the problems is that educational establishments ca n't renew their equipment as often as desirable . |
| 24 | It was evidently the Conservative intention to associate their campaign as closely as possible with the personality of the wartime leader . |
| 25 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 26 | This enigma demanded their return as soon as possible . |
| 27 | That brought him within a mile or two of Stoke St Gregory , down the steep incline and on to the Levels , where a family of Titfords had once made their home as long ago as the end of the 16th century . |
| 28 | Recent climatic changes have enhanced the cosmopolitan nature of this urban melting-pot with Bel Air and Beverley Hills , safe on their ground , losing their exclusivity as less privileged Angelenos have moved in from low-lying districts . |
| 29 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 30 | When children have been removed , positive efforts should be made to rehabilitate them with their parents as soon as possible . |