Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people ‘ in the street ’ recognise what a teacher is ; most would accord a teacher of ( say ) French a certain status ( though perhaps not as much as the deserve ) as being someone who has a special skill or expertise . |
| 2 | Its bed and furniture were entirely homely , however , and perhaps not as dainty as the elegant young French lady might like , but it did have a nice view of the hustle and bustle of Newington Butts , and Mrs Beavis always reckoned that if you could see life going on from your window , you could n't grumble too much about not having dainty furniture . |
| 3 | She thought that this view was perhaps not as beautiful as a view of Blackmoor Vale , which she knew so well . |
| 4 | But I think you have to say the club 's just not as much as an event as it used to be . |
| 5 | whilst the group who have made the move from the hospital to the community are not typical of the hospital population — they are generally not as dependent as the average person in hospital — they are certainly much more typical than those people who are moving out of hospital elsewhere in England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 6 | It should be noted that this concept of study skills was still not as broad as the full-blown information skills approach nominated in the proposal document , and was seen as achievable by one of a number of means which the committee considered . |
| 7 | The important point to focus on is the relationship between the modern economic sector and the informal sector which is clearly not as negative as the formal/informal dichotomy would imply . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most appealing has been the idea that the deficit is really not as large as the official figures suggest ( because of gross inadequacies in the data ) . |
| 9 | Confronting and accepting the reason for the tension is often the best way of dealing with it , since if you look logically at the cause it is often not as bad as the imagination would suggest . |
| 10 | It was not that Grom was especially tall , certainly not as tall as an Orc , but he was enormously and infamously fat . |