Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] quickly [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firm is well known for its painstaking research , which may mean that assignments are completed less quickly than by rival headhunters , but they are certainly carried out more thoroughly . |
| 2 | It had been forgotten as quickly as it had begun . |
| 3 | Divided plants will take hold of the soil and grow new roots more quickly if they are replanted so quickly that the plant hardly knows it has been out of the ground . |
| 4 | M my view about this is that it 's it it is it is that this exercise is that it is er something which has been done very quickly and to my mind is not capable of providing the level of assessment that would be required . |
| 5 | The boil of misgovernment would have been lanced very quickly and a long festering crisis of confidence in the integrity of the system would have been avoided . |
| 6 | The job of the buyers is to assess the health needs of people in their area and then see that those needs are met as quickly and effectively as possible . |
| 7 | A pollution does not provide an officer with the excitement , satisfaction , and possible prestige among colleagues enjoyed by policemen ( Cain , 1973:32 ) , but is a symbolic assault on ‘ his river ’ , a serious blow to his careful tending of the environment to be healed as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | Results will be given as quickly as possible , but some experts fear they could take up to a month if demand is high . |
| 9 | The Chief Executive has advised staff that the post of Director of Highways will be filled as quickly as possible . |
| 10 | ‘ They will give us nothing without a problem on Saturday and every mistake we make will be punished more quickly and more heavily than any Five Nations opponents would manage . ’ |
| 11 | If we make mistakes we will be punished more quickly and more effectively than any Northern Hemisphere team could equal . |
| 12 | Tonight a spokesman for the Department of Health said people on waiting lists , even when they 're not emergency cases , are often in considerable pain and need to be treated as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | There 's a brand new Jag and a few bits of plant up there that need to be repossessed as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | A. Simple reaction time When a light is switched on ( or a note is sounded ) a button must be pressed as quickly as possible ; the delay in doing this is measured . |
| 15 | In Vienna , of course … my only conclusive recourse was to leave the city , which could not be arranged as quickly as I would have liked since I had army business there which demanded my attendance . |
| 16 | A child who is not feeling well will stop eating temporarily and rapidly lose weight over a short period but this will be regained equally quickly once the child has recovered . |
| 17 | As question marks over Mr Major 's future grew at Westminster , Mr Heseltine said Mr Lamont 's speech would be forgotten very quickly and Mr Major would win the next general election . |
| 18 | Indirect taxes can be varied more quickly and easily , taking more immediate effect , than can direct taxes . |
| 19 | A BR spokeswoman said the fencing would be repaired as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | But if phonemic competitors are included , some means of resolving the phonemes identity and filtering out improbable words must be applied as quickly as possible to stop the proliferation of word strings . |
| 21 | The railways in America could be built very quickly and cheaply in the nineteenth century partly because of the efficiency of the timber trestle bridge . |
| 22 | They can usually be built relatively quickly and at low cost and are easy to understand and operate . |
| 23 | To remedy these grievances it was enacted that the Charter of the Forest was to be kept in all its articles , that the perambulations made in the time of Edward I were to be observed , that those perambulations which still remained to be made should be made as quickly as possible , and that the forest boundaries in each county should be confirmed by royal charters , as laid down in the perambulations . |
| 24 | The real advantage of such modelling systems is , of course , that many iterations using different data can be made extremely quickly and accurately . |
| 25 | The agent will send it around to publishing houses where she or he will have contacts , so your work will be seen more quickly and with a more benevolent eye . |
| 26 | " Everything has to be done as quickly as possible ; the only time we spend extra hours in the garden is over the few weeks we are entering competitions , just to make sure it looks at its best , " says Barbara . |
| 27 | This , according to Nigel 's will , was to be done as quickly and cheaply as possible . |
| 28 | It had to be done very quickly because once the tanks arrived we would not be allowed to go any further until they had passed through the city . |
| 29 | Automatic equipment meant that many of the relatively routine tasks could be done more quickly and more accurately . |
| 30 | They become entangled in such a way that it is very rare for any to wriggle free , and while there is ample time to collect them at relative leisure they should nonetheless be collected as quickly as possible . |