Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | The issue of access is just one of the barriers that we have not tackled as positively as we would have wished . |
2 | Traditionally , the more active members have tended to belong to local groups , and the numbers of groups and group members have not grown as fast as the national membership . |
3 | Overall , however , prevention and treatment have not progressed as quickly as was hoped , and research and development must be pursued vigorously to take account of contemporary perceptions of the disorder . |
4 | However , even if bus networks have not declined as markedly as has , say , the rail network , frequency of services has usually declined and fares have increased . |
5 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
6 | At present the authorities have not gone so far as this . |
7 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |
8 | Dear Lord You know that I have not worked as hard as I ought . |
9 | On the other hand , uprating many benefits in line with prices rather than earnings means that recipients have not shared as fully as others in the higher living standards achieved in the 1980s . |
10 | ‘ Both John Emburey and Phil Tufnell have not bowled as well as they can but they must be given the opportunity to bowl more on these kind of turning pitches at home . |
11 | Women are faced with making a choice between the needs of their children and their own needs , and that is one of the things which , because they 've put the needs of their children , the needs of their dependents , ahead of their own needs , they themselves and the needs of women have not got as far as they could . |
12 | If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia . |
13 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
14 | But the company say they have n't done as badly as some of their competitors , and predict a better year ahead . |
15 | Oh well I have n't got as far as that because I |