Example sentences of "[is] not [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To complain individually is not as successful as to complain within a unified forum . |
| 2 | ‘ Talking , ’ she said , squatting gracefully as she slipped down his trousers , real pseude trousers , ‘ is not as easy as laughing . ’ |
| 3 | Looking back at your career to , say , the last years of the Great War I am reminded of that poem quoted at the end of Pasternak 's Dr Zhivago , ‘ To live one 's life is not as easy as crossing a ploughed field' ! |
| 4 | It is not as simple as saying an embryo has a value equal to one human life which it is entitled to cash in . |
| 5 | This is not as simple as adding a cassette tape and storing the messages — the sort of companies looking for voice record storage are often in a highly regulated environment . |
| 6 | In summary food intolerance occurs in Crohn 's disease but is not as frequent as claimed by some previous studies and its occurrence and intensity are variable . |
| 7 | First , consider the situation where weight loss is not as good as expected . |
| 8 | My one gripe is that at times the control system is not as good as expected . |
| 9 | These produce higher frequencies of digestion , with more than half the teeth in their prey assemblages suffering damage ( Table 3.12 ) , but the degree of digestion is not as great as seen in the species of category 5 . |
| 10 | Members of the House of Commons ' Environment select committee have concluded that the rate of destruction of Brazilian rainforest is not as great as has been reported . |
| 11 | Does he agree that it is good that the British farming community is not as violent as appears to be the case on the continent ? |
| 12 | Its understood that announcement is not as imminent as has been suggested . |
| 13 | ‘ But even that is not as hard as recognising that the sum of human misery has probably been increased by what we did , incredible though that would have seemed to us then . ’ |
| 14 | Exchanging information is not as risky as sticking your neck out by suggesting an idea , so people tend to prolong information-swopping and postpone idea-having . |
| 15 | Or perhaps the Government may decide that the provision of cheap houses to its young supporters in the South-east is not as important as holding the thin green line , while cultivating the older guard . |
| 16 | It is true that the actual distribution of property in society is far from equal ; but it is not so skewed as to give any individual a monopoly of economic power . |
| 17 | That core of meaning is necessarily general and vague enough to make such variations possible , but it is not so vague as to permit any meaning whatsoever to be placed on the word . |
| 18 | The reference to specific information only , can be best explained by the need to ensure that the definition of inside information is not so wide as to include legitimate research undertaken by investment analysts . |
| 19 | In fact , however , our knowledge here is not so deficient as has been imagined . |
| 20 | Even then , it is not so bad as to give you taxi syndrome . |
| 21 | An " optimum " rate of population growth could be considered one which while it increases the labour supply , is not so fast as to outgrow the supportive powers of the economy and prevent income per head from rising . |
| 22 | The dependence of what we see on the state of our minds or brains is not so sensitive as to make communication , and science , impossible . |
| 23 | The top end cuts through while the bass is not so fat as to mask the octave strings , but retains enough warmth to sound smooth and chunky on power chords . |
| 24 | However , he is not so undiplomatic as to resist the horrendous hospitality of overindulgent underdeveloped countries . |
| 25 | Yet the Profitboss is not so naive as to believe that people do not occasionally betray trust , do not occasionally fiddle their expenses , do not occasionally get sloppy and hire unnecessary staff . |
| 26 | These results are important for plate tectonic theory because they show that the Earth is not currently expanding as has been suggested by a small minority of earth scientists , at least not at a rate which is significant compared with rates of plate motion . |
| 27 | Yes , towards — we 're getting back towards our original man in the graveyard — yes , I mean I 'd like to say that you 're saying particularly to Reverend Flatman what should he or his parishioners be doing to help this man — it 's not as easy as saying that somebody individually should be offering him a room in their house because his problems are far more manifold and deep seated than that . |