Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] far as possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She wished so far as possible to respect in her dominions the rights of the provincial estates , the greatest bastions of resistance to change . |
| 5 | 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 . |