Example sentences of "[adj] as not " in BNC.
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| 1 | No demand , however , was made on us by the gate-keeper , the authorities being so liberal as not to charge persons for walking either on the roads or footpaths . |
| 2 | ‘ We are conscious , ’ John Page concluded , ‘ that our costs put quite a burden on some of you , and I believe we are going to have to look at that aspect of the ‘ level playing field ’ because we know you think this unfair as not all countries are in the same position . |
| 3 | So we made these tests more complex in order to increase their relevance , but in so doing we produced tests which were so sophisticated as not to be widely available due to cost and personnel requirements , and which began to show some of the problems found when we measured performance ‘ on-site ’ . |
| 4 | Make the process as brief as possible , but not so brief as not to be able to fulfil the sales objective of obtaining an order , or of opening the way for further negotiations . |
| 5 | Although collective property auctions take place regularly in London ( often primarily for investors rather than house-hunters ) , in country areas the more typical auction will be just for one house , and as likely as not will take place in a nearby pub or village hall . |
| 6 | Today 's newcomers are as likely as not to arrive from the opposite direction : businessmen seeking to escape the pollution , water shortages , high taxes and labour costs of southern California . |
| 7 | As likely as not , she 'll get burgled one of these fine days . ’ |
| 8 | By fifty a married man or woman was as likely as not to have suffered widowhood , and would have already lost half his or her contemporaries : in contrast to a mere twentieth today . |
| 9 | Hair sometimes changes from being dry to becoming greasy at this age but as likely as not will revert later to its usual condition . |
| 10 | If they are over-indulged they will , as likely as not , feel unsatisfied . |
| 11 | As likely as not we 'll blow a tyre , slew off , and become three small puddles of melted fat in a blackened and twisted plane wreck ! ’ |
| 12 | Today an adolescent is probably as likely as not to belong to a family which is an uneasy mixture of the nuclear set-up and the institution known as serial marriage ( marriage , divorce , remarriage ) . |
| 13 | Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters ; and , as likely as not , he is run into Parliament . ’ |
| 14 | He could have slit our throats for us then and there and thrown us in the canal , likely as not . |
| 15 | Those under , as likely as not , burst into tears themselves . |
| 16 | Architecture fascinates Richard Serra , too : likely as not he will claim the whole of an interior space as part of his work . |
| 17 | The wooden box to which all these fittings were fixed probably contained the gaming pieces , which were as likely as not also made of ivory . |
| 18 | If you sit on a cliff edge on Sea-lion Island to enjoy your pack lunch , as likely as not you will be joined by one or more of these amusing birds . |
| 19 | As likely as not they were cottagers partially dependent on casual labouring , while not infrequently assessment on wages gives practical expression to the class of servants mentioned by the act of 1533 . |
| 20 | Students and UB40s get 10 per cent discount , and likely as not you will find Lord Marks picking over the shelves . |
| 21 | And women are as likely as not to be left to fend for themselves , living crowded into one room with all the children and having to work all night sewing or cleaning to make ends meet . |
| 22 | From the moment that you arrive at college you will be involved in what is popularly known as " taking notes " and as likely as not within a few weeks you will be the possessor of tattered notebooks filled with illegible hieroglyphics or , worse still , of masses of mixed-up bits of paper . |
| 23 | You take it in for what it seems and forget , as likely as not , the precise detail . |
| 24 | The farm worker is as likely as not to be found standing shoulder to shoulder with his employer defending the farm and its game — a literal case of poacher turned gamekeeper . |
| 25 | Then , it seemed hours later , when he sensed or smelt or somehow divined that he was almost at the road , there came , as likely as not out of his own imagination , the delicate sound of an indrawn breath . |
| 26 | And then when it was all over , you threw open the windows and you vacuumed , and as likely as not while you were doing this you 'd find someone left asleep behind the sofa . |
| 27 | If a thing was able to be found then , as likely as not , Bella would have it . |
| 28 | " They 'll be the husband 's , likely as not . " |
| 29 | Drift on as we have been : in our sour , brutish , dangerous cities , in our pesticide-soaked countryside : the will of the people increasingly triumphant , and not its best will , likely as not its worst will ? |
| 30 | Erm as desirable as that objective is , the fact of the matter is that inward investors , given the choice of the derelict industrial site in a town centre in North Yorkshire or an out of town motorway junction site to exaggerate the difference , in another part of the country is as likely as not to choose the other place . |