Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [vb pp] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ They would n't have come as far as this on their own , he must be driving them . ’ |
5 | 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 . |