Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Managers are not necessarily as transient as acts . |
2 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
3 | It is not always as simple as following the chain back until we come to a name or a noun . |
4 | That avenue is now regarded in some quarters as not nearly as strategic as cuddling up with Novell , despite the disappointment USL employees might feel in not being able to cash in their stock and options that way . |
5 | We saved money , but not nearly as much as expected . |
6 | The Japanese Fisheries Association has launched a £36,000 campaign aimed at persuading the US government that driftnets are not as environmentally destructive as reported by its scientists . |
7 | You are not even as old as Bicker , and he has no grey in his hair . ’ |
8 | Although much of the mapping is relatively straightforward to automate because it is rule based , there are exceptions and therefore the mapping in a real database application is not quite so straightforward as implied here . |
9 | It 's not quite as effective as walking on water , but it comes close . |
10 | Indeed , although the commons appointed as Speaker Sir Thomas Hungerford , who was Gaunt 's Steward of South Parts , they were not quite as docile as has sometimes been supposed . |
11 | Since none of these activities is costless , however , the situation is not quite as clear as suggested by economists who propose that efficiency should be the only goal . |
12 | When Harry Collyer joined Crystal Palace FC ours was a club that had not yet so much as played a 1st Division match in the Southern League . |
13 | The loved one is an ice-cool blonde genius murder suspect ( Stone ) , and the finale is n't quite as cut-and-dried as expected , which gives protestors a problem : in order to give away the ending , they 'll have to understand it first . |
14 | They were n't quite so stupid as to believe wholly their own propaganda . |