Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means the aquarium will not need cleaning as often as a less densely planted one . |
| 2 | Fourth , spending on front-office systems , such as those supporting foreign exchange , funds and transfer payments , is not expected to grow as fast as that on back-office systems , covering such applications as transaction processing , clearing and settlement . |
| 3 | However , there are fears that the chancellor will not dare go as far as his critics wish and instead stick to a one per cent cut . |
| 4 | This was something which the inhabitants were not going to overlook as lightly as Charles had done . |
| 5 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 6 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 7 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 8 | Attitudes may not have changed as quickly as some of the tools with which we do the job but there are plenty of examples of progress which deserve credit . |
| 9 | If the buyer believes such an obligation does not exist , then clearly the bill can be ignored and the matter does not proceed further as far as is concerned here . |
| 10 | I 'm Quechua , but I do n't want to work as hard as they must do . |
| 11 | Erm it would be wrong to say Wales is a weak region on the basis of this , it 's just not , does n't appear , or does n't expect to grow as strongly as it was growing . |
| 12 | We do n't have to worry as much as we used to about its being misused by the party state apparatus for corrupt erm , then of course there 's , them , the , the , the problem of longer term aid , how we help the Soviet Union integrate itself into the world economy . |
| 13 | ‘ They would n't have come as far as this on their own , he must be driving them . ’ |
| 14 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |