Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [adv] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although our sense of smell does not compare as favourably as some of our other senses , it allows us to detect tiny traces of a very wide range of complex chemicals . |
| 2 | As algae does not multiply as quickly as some marine parasites the turnover in the pond need not be very fast . |
| 3 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 4 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 5 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 6 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |
| 7 | At present the authorities have not gone so far as this . |
| 8 | But matters had not gone as smoothly as all that . |
| 9 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |