Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] as they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents may have carried around concerns about a past event that they feel might harm the child but often it is not as serious as they think and the subject can be raised in later sessions with the child present . |
| 2 | My , my , Dowd thought , they 're not as stupid as they look . |
| 3 | Mr Montignac 's theories are not as strange as they sound . |
| 4 | They hardly ever do , so it 's not as daring as they make out , is it ? |
| 5 | The research nurses are establishing the principle that the rigid compartments of the medical profession are not as watertight as they appear . |
| 6 | Caught off guard , in a mellow mood , away-from the pressures that the stance has been developed to shield them from , they too will admit to being disappointed and confused , not as hard-bitten as they make out , and as having found only a very inadequate solution to what seems to be an insoluble problem : how to do a good enough job . |
| 7 | erm But I do think that women need to have much more of a sense of their own power , or at least of the fact that they 're not as powerless as they think of themselves as being , and so they can say when the tutor puts his hand on their knee or something like that ‘ I 'm sorry , would you take your hand away , that 's not part of our relationship ’ or something that just so they do n't have to feel so bad about it . |
| 8 | Not as high as they have been but they range from thirteen eighty five to fourteen forty . |
| 9 | However , things are not as bad as they seem . |
| 10 | It 's not as bad as they say , but there are a lot of elements of risk in golf . |
| 11 | Recording behaviours can help parents discover that things are not as bad as they think . |
| 12 | Chances are things are not as bad as they appear — it is only the contrast . |
| 13 | The differences between it , and traditional and egalitarian feminist approaches , are not as big as they look . |
| 14 | A regional manager spends more time , you know , okay , it 's a little bit longer , I deal with more lines than you , the pressure is far , you know , every branch manager I know , the guy 's got to believe that they 'll get staff from somewhere , it 's just as long as they get the order in and the availability right . |
| 15 | We know from experimental evidence that dreams proceed as it were in " real " time , and are just as long as they seem . |
| 16 | The final miles back to Staveley are not very pleasant as they involve road walking , particularly the last mile and a half which is along a main road . |
| 17 | However the texture of these patinas is not very convincing as they tend to be rather matt and powdery , and are quite easily recognised under the microscope . |
| 18 | Although I personally endorse Labov 's views on the matter of candid recording , it has to be admitted that the issues are not always as clear-cut as they seem . |
| 19 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 20 | Are they really as good as they make out ? |
| 21 | If the paramilitaries are really as untouchable as they seem , the world will begin to draw parallels between the PLO , the ANC , the IRA and the UDA . |
| 22 | The new finance minister , Carlos Bolona , was educated at Oxford and is as financially orthodox as they come in Peru . |
| 23 | The issue was as politically predictable as they come , there should have been no muddle as a result . |
| 24 | They are becoming increasingly more important as they want to er and try to impose policy on travellers , and therefore price is becoming much more of an issue with them . |
| 25 | they 're quite , they are n't as daft as they look , you know |
| 26 | Lewis and Maloney so played up their own virginal roles during negotiations for a fight with world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe , that you wonder whether , in the words of Muhammad Ali , these boys ai n't as dumb as they look . |
| 27 | Doubts like this crystallize at one or two points , either where the presuppositions are so mixed and unsatisfactory that they are inaccurate , or where the presuppositions are true as far as they go but do not go far enough and so are incomplete . |
| 28 | By night the bars can get quite lively , although not quite so wild as they get during the winter months when the skiers reenact their greatest runs . |
| 29 | The mother , dialling the number on the phone , said , ‘ I 'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are . |
| 30 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |