Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may not move as fast as you , but we 'll be there in good time . |
| 2 | I recognise that this may not go as far as librarians would wish . |
| 3 | Agreed the working masses may not bath as regularly as might be wished , but they all drink tea . |
| 4 | When Le Roux bought Norton Motors in 1987 with shareholder and bank money , he knew there was a risk the profit might not flow as quickly as hoped . |
| 5 | Bream are a very impressive fish and though they might not fight as bravely as tench , carp or barbel , they do look big . |
| 6 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 7 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 8 | Elinor was sometimes at a loss for the right word , or name , and then became impatient with herself ; she was often frustrated because she could n't move as swiftly as she did before . |
| 9 | I could n't run as fast as I would have liked . |
| 10 | I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters . |
| 11 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
| 12 | And he said his company 's 99p set of earrings would not last as long as a Marks and Spencer prawn sandwich . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I would n't go as far as to say that but I 'll admit you were in a rather nasty pickle . ’ |
| 15 | Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 16 | No I would n't go as far as that anyway but I 'm saying they 're in the wrong it 's not you in the wrong , they 're in |
| 17 | It would n't exist as far as the programmer was concerned . |
| 18 | The bill would be around £75 but , as Mary had said , the van would n't get as far as Calais in its present state . |
| 19 | You know fair enough , some of the older men ca n't move as fast as a eighteen year old , but on the other hand it 's what they got in their head that counts . |
| 20 | Two apart ca n't live as cheaply as two together . |
| 21 | I ca n't run as fast as you ! ’ |
| 22 | One piece of good news is that Clinton has stated that he will not go as far as a recent legislative proposal , which would have required certain foreign-owned firms and branches to report a minimum amount of US taxable income . |
| 23 | ‘ When the recovery does come , we will not benefit as quickly as we should . |
| 24 | When the recovery comes we will not benefit as quickly as we should . |
| 25 | Such individuals will then continue to breed , and the numbers will not sink as rapidly as the population controllers would like . |
| 26 | Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries . |
| 27 | However , impediments to women 's lives will not disappear as quickly as Mrs Thatcher did . |
| 28 | So widows in large houses ( who always feature prominently in arguments about property taxes ) will not do as badly as under the rates . |
| 29 | I know that a Labour Government will be returned and I am sure that that Government will not take as long as from 1986 to the present time , as this Government have , to do something constructive about changing the law and bringing in legislation that could be enforced throughout the country . |
| 30 | Compute-bound packages that require the Unix engine to emulate Intel 's floating point will not run as well as on an Intel/MS-DOS platform . |