Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] as they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet his views and Kennedy 's were not so dissimilar as they seemed . |
| 2 | However , things are not as simple as they seemed at first . |
| 3 | In no circumstances was the bulk of the Labour Party prepared to be allied with groups which were clearly not as influential as they had been in the past . |
| 4 | But nothing happened and Fenella felt a small , frail spiral of confidence and thought that the very suggestion that the Robemaker needed sentries at all indicated that he was not as all-powerful as they had feared . |
| 5 | Pockets of resistance still remained in 1922 , in Tambov , Siberia , Georgia , and Central Asia : seemingly safe areas , like the Smolensk and Kursk gubernii , were not as stable as they seemed to be on the surface . |
| 6 | Their parents were elderly , though not as elderly as they seemed . |
| 7 | During this period , the American 8th Air Force squadrons of Flying Fortresses and Liberators , many of whom were stationed near to us in the vicinity of Cambridge and Huntingdon , were doing daylight raids deep into Germany , and were rapidly finding out that it was not as easy as they had expected . |
| 8 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 9 | Wellcome Foundation , which currently sells more than £200 million ( $ 300 million ) of AZT a year , dismissed the use of AZT on its own as ‘ old science ’ , but also claimed that the Concorde conclusions were not as black-and-white as they appeared . |
| 10 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 11 | Lowndes found that management controls and stock levels were not as good as they had hoped . |
| 12 | There was also a growing body of opinion in Westminster and Whitehall amongst many of those who had initially welcomed Sandys ’ 1957 Defence White Paper , that his doctrine was not as sensible as they had first thought . |
| 13 | A moody silence descended between brother and sister , and after a judicious interval , Belinda painted a smile on her face and joined them , hoping her cheeks were not as flushed as they felt . |
| 14 | The mosquitoes and the noise of the guns were not as important as they seemed several days ago . |
| 15 | They sobered up at the graveside in anticipation of the encounter of Jennie and Mary but it was not as hostile as they expected . |
| 16 | Both Phyllisia and Celie realised that the men they had feared were not as monstrous as they had thought . |
| 17 | It can come as a considerable shock when reality is forced upon them and their life on return is not as wonderful as they had anticipated . |
| 18 | Things were not as bad as they seemed … |
| 19 | The chart may also help parents recognize that the problem is not as bad as they thought or that finally they can demonstrate the seriousness of the problem . |
| 20 | Given the choice now , he wished the old holidays could be taken again , that things were not as different as they had become . |
| 21 | Maggie was shown into a very expensive flat that overlooked the river and she had one of her rare glimpses of the owner as he stood with his back to a roaring fire and regarded her through eyes that were just as sharp as they had ever been in his youth . |
| 22 | They were young , rich and ambitious , typical Hooray Henries , with Sloane Ranger girlfriends ; Charles found them just as unsympathetic as they found him . |
| 23 | The rather frayed drapes , either side of the tall windows , had a silky sheen in the soft lamplight , the scratched furniture and the threadbare state of the rugs no longer as visible as they had been under the brilliant glare of the harsh overhead light . |
| 24 | ‘ Some hoped to be saved by going ; others did n't care if they were damned so long as they found new fields for profit and adventure . |
| 25 | Most of the skulls and mandibles were still as complete as they left the pellet , with little loss of basal and occipital bone and slight breakage of the tip of the ascending ramus of the mandible . |
| 26 | That evening , at the Royal in Tipperary , John asked MacMinimum if that was really so — was the distress always as bad as they had seen it today ? |
| 27 | Even in the northern counties , Scottish raids were never as frequent or as deeply penetrating as they had been in Edward II 's reign , and although the inhabitants of those counties made the most of their plight in petitions for relief from taxation , the raids in the years after 1332 did little long-term damage to the region 's economy . |
| 28 | But was it really as bad as they said ? |
| 29 | Yes , I would hope that er this is a mark time ; it gives us a time to re-examine some of the schemes to see whether they are as financially viable as they looked er when perhaps times were better , and we would be hoping very much that er the economy will pick up and with it , land sales . |
| 30 | They had both slowly turned their heads , which were now very close as they stared to where a grassy bank rose to a narrow stretch of woodland that bordered the house gardens . |