Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] as [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in any case the concept of supranational defence integration had not been as carefully considered and researched , and its potential participants fully persuaded of its value , in advance as had been the case with the ECSC . |
| 2 | But the ideas and what lay behind them could not be as easily sorted and filed into place as those documents in the office where she had worked years ago . |
| 3 | The sums granted for this last purpose in 1993–94 will not be as closely earmarked as was the £15m specifically designated for books in 1991–92 and 1992–93 . |
| 4 | Second , political objectives can not be as clearly specified as the scientific or rational model seems to demand . |
| 5 | A colleague of mine , in an inner-city team ministry , which faces a thousand funerals a year , can not be as personally involved as he would wish . |
| 6 | This may not be as far fetched as it seems , considering the low nutrient content of tropical forest soil . |
| 7 | We need to recognise that some letters will take longer to answer that public loos will not be as fully attended as they have been in the past . |