Example sentences of "be not as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture delivered to a PAL screen from an NTSC tape are not as good as the original , but they will be quite good enough for most viewers wanting to watch family tapes from abroad . |
| 2 | Hammersmith Road and its schlock architecture is proof that conservationists are not as powerful as the architectural profession likes to believe . |
| 3 | Incidentally , the interaction between the two programmes , and the fact that classical electromagnetic theory emerged as a reconciliation of the two programmes , inheriting the fields from one and the electron from the other , suggests that research programmes are not as autonomous as the Lakatos account suggests . |
| 4 | Erratic and staggered waking is more effective than a fixed waking schedule but both show only moderate effects and are not as effective as the bell and pad . |
| 5 | ‘ These dogs are not as strong as the pit bull terrier but they have immense strength all the same . |
| 6 | But developments in the eighties suggest that these fears are not as worrying as the very real fear about other libraries in Britain . |
| 7 | They are not as professional as the force in Paris or London . |
| 8 | And anti nuclear campaigners believe the chances of such an accident are not as remote as the Government claims . |
| 9 | There are very high level languages on the market which enable certain types of systems to be developed quickly and easily , but they are not as fast as the traditional languages , and so they are not suitable for recruitment applications . |
| 10 | They also readily acknowledge that the symbols are not as important as the impressions , imaginings and emotions they provoke . |
| 11 | These results reiterate the above finding that the zinc fingers are not as important as the three regions of basic residues for binding to DNA . |
| 12 | Youth development officer Ron Bone said : ‘ Results are not as important as the development of young players . |
| 13 | My election chances are not as important as the good name of the party . |
| 14 | Although advocates of the main parties are allowed to cross-examine other parties ' witnesses and the advocates are frequently barristers or solicitors , hearings are not as formal as a court of law and great effort is generally made to bring out the real substance of the layman 's arguments . |
| 15 | ‘ While at present returns are not as high as a year ago , they are still relatively attractive . ’ |
| 16 | This approach is less accurate because the cattle returns are not as reliable as the census figures , but it is valuable because the presence of a large urban population can mask a high rate of cattle theft in the rural parts of a region . |
| 17 | They do this because they are not as quick as the opposition and want to give themselves as much time as possible to play the ball , no matter that they also give the other player more time . |
| 18 | We are not as accomplished as the best German orchestras , and this is not because we are bad string players , but simply because we 're a kind of pot pourri , we have all kinds of different string styles in England . |
| 19 | They 're not as good as the . |
| 20 | The Nirvana comparisons are equally askew , and they 're not as retro as the Fannies . |
| 21 | But we do n't get that now , they get South African 's now do n't they and they get Italians and French and there 's all sorts of things but they 're not as nice as the Californian fruit . |
| 22 | They 're not as warm as a sweatshirt . |
| 23 | They 're not as big as the , do n't know what they are , could be herons as you say . |
| 24 | erm My cause for concern , and I think it 's one that 's been echoed in a number of places , is the still very high figure for food-poisoning outbreaks , for food-poisoning cases , erm you 'll see we 're not as high as the previous comparable half-year of last year , which was ninety-two , but that included the Keble outbreak , which you 're well aware of , but at thirty-two for Oxford for a half year , that 's a very high figure . |
| 25 | Heathers are among the best shrubs for winter colour — they 're not as demanding as the summer-flowering ones , and an acid soil is n't essential , as long as it is n't very chalky . |
| 26 | That 's right , yes , I mean that 's that 's very true , and , and another point that underlines the fact economies of scale in agriculture , I mean there are there are economies of scale to a certain degree as you , as you said there , Matthew , but there 's certainly not er , erm , they 're not as large as the , as the economies of scale in , in manufacturing , primarily because in agriculture you effectively need land , alright , to increase erm , your output . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're not as old as the man who had me first . ’ |
| 28 | You must n't worry if you 're not as quick as the others . |
| 29 | I 'm not as pathetic as the protagonist in those songs . ’ |
| 30 | Here 's you thinking you 'll be lying the night in a comfortable bed with someone whose fingers are n't as calloused as a piece of old limestone , and what 's happened ? |