Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [verb] as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ people with learning difficulties are not respected to begin with and because the women 's Individual Programmes , including skills training , are not in place , they are not progressing as well as they could and they are not getting respect . ’ |
| 2 | Searches are not made as frequently as staff would like , because they say , shortages mean there simply are n't enough officers to do it . |
| 3 | What I do is to stop these last two if apparently indicated remedies are not working as well as I would have expected . |
| 4 | what 's interesting is that those rivalries are not focused as strongly as they used around the very big clubs , and we 're talking less here about what 's gon na happen at Manchester United and Chelsea and perhaps more about the difficulties of Wolves and and Stoke . |
| 5 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
| 6 | Stress-relaxation tests are not performed as often as creep tests because many investigators believe they are less readily understood . |
| 7 | cos these blooming policies are not doing as well as I expected |
| 8 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |
| 9 | I 'm not riding as well as I was and I 'm not as brave as I was and I have to face facts |
| 10 | A spokesman for Destiny Technology said settlement talks fell through because they ‘ were not moving as rapidly as they could have . ’ |
| 11 | In general , observers noted that the economic reforms were not proceeding as quickly as originally envisaged . |
| 12 | To explain why they were not employed as frequently as they were amongst the middle class until the inter-war period involves consideration of the complicated relationship between the occupational characteristics of both husband and wife with their respective values and expectations and how they related to each other . |
| 13 | advise the bank/organisation if the policy is not renewed as soon as practicable after such non-renewal has come to their knowledge ; |
| 14 | ‘ If a co-ordinated effort is not made as quickly as possible , the death toll could increase dramatically to become a major catastrophe , ’ said Mr Demoze Kebebu , regional representative of Ethiopia 's Bureau of Refugee Affairs . |
| 15 | The vendor should ensure that the sale agreement provides that the purchaser is obliged to pay that part of the price that is not disputed as soon as possible and that interest is paid on the additional amount if any that the purchaser is subsequently required to pay . |
| 16 | As we noted above , the latest 1988 BCS indicates , that indeed , crime is not rising as steeply as police statistics imply . |
| 17 | Because it is a large fish , it is not kept as often as it should be , as it is a very peaceful fish for its size . |
| 18 | The urban environment is not defined as readily as a region such as North America or Australia but it is a way of studying part of the world that has some unifying attribute . |
| 19 | The possessed woman , like her bewitched counterpart , becomes the immediate centre of attention and care , and although she exerts pressure upon her spouse the latter is not assailed as radically as he would be were he accused of being a witch . |
| 20 | This is a safety net for press coverage which falls outside statutory protection — because , for example , it is not published as soon as practicable after the event . |
| 21 | The Tender is the defenders ' finest weapon , and is not used as often as it should be . |
| 22 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 23 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
| 24 | ‘ His hip 's not mending as quickly as it ought , which makes him very impatient . |
| 25 | Thames Water says demand for supplies is n't growing as fast as expected . |
| 26 | So do n't write off the ‘ old country ’ yet Amanda it is n't doing as badly as it thinks . |
| 27 | Although Clwyd was not hit as badly as Gwynedd , there was widespread flooding , including pensioners ' flats in Cae Brachty , Mold . |
| 28 | The conclusion would seem to be that the early Anglo-Saxon countryside was not run as efficiently as in the following centuries . |
| 29 | The fact that the long-stay population was not declining as rapidly as had been thought meant an expensive ‘ double running ’ situation . |
| 30 | Wales still struggled for possession although Copsey 's aggressive involvement ensured that Ireland 's ball was not delivered as smoothly as it might have been . |