Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet his views and Kennedy 's were not so dissimilar as they seemed . |
| 2 | However , things are not as simple as they seemed at first . |
| 3 | Parents may have carried around concerns about a past event that they feel might harm the child but often it is not as serious as they think and the subject can be raised in later sessions with the child present . |
| 4 | In no circumstances was the bulk of the Labour Party prepared to be allied with groups which were clearly not as influential as they had been in the past . |
| 5 | But nothing happened and Fenella felt a small , frail spiral of confidence and thought that the very suggestion that the Robemaker needed sentries at all indicated that he was not as all-powerful as they had feared . |
| 6 | Pockets of resistance still remained in 1922 , in Tambov , Siberia , Georgia , and Central Asia : seemingly safe areas , like the Smolensk and Kursk gubernii , were not as stable as they seemed to be on the surface . |
| 7 | My , my , Dowd thought , they 're not as stupid as they look . |
| 8 | Mr Montignac 's theories are not as strange as they sound . |
| 9 | They hardly ever do , so it 's not as daring as they make out , is it ? |
| 10 | The research nurses are establishing the principle that the rigid compartments of the medical profession are not as watertight as they appear . |
| 11 | Their parents were elderly , though not as elderly as they seemed . |
| 12 | During this period , the American 8th Air Force squadrons of Flying Fortresses and Liberators , many of whom were stationed near to us in the vicinity of Cambridge and Huntingdon , were doing daylight raids deep into Germany , and were rapidly finding out that it was not as easy as they had expected . |
| 13 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 14 | Wellcome Foundation , which currently sells more than £200 million ( $ 300 million ) of AZT a year , dismissed the use of AZT on its own as ‘ old science ’ , but also claimed that the Concorde conclusions were not as black-and-white as they appeared . |
| 15 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 16 | Lowndes found that management controls and stock levels were not as good as they had hoped . |
| 17 | There was also a growing body of opinion in Westminster and Whitehall amongst many of those who had initially welcomed Sandys ’ 1957 Defence White Paper , that his doctrine was not as sensible as they had first thought . |
| 18 | Caught off guard , in a mellow mood , away-from the pressures that the stance has been developed to shield them from , they too will admit to being disappointed and confused , not as hard-bitten as they make out , and as having found only a very inadequate solution to what seems to be an insoluble problem : how to do a good enough job . |
| 19 | A moody silence descended between brother and sister , and after a judicious interval , Belinda painted a smile on her face and joined them , hoping her cheeks were not as flushed as they felt . |
| 20 | erm But I do think that women need to have much more of a sense of their own power , or at least of the fact that they 're not as powerless as they think of themselves as being , and so they can say when the tutor puts his hand on their knee or something like that ‘ I 'm sorry , would you take your hand away , that 's not part of our relationship ’ or something that just so they do n't have to feel so bad about it . |
| 21 | Not as high as they have been but they range from thirteen eighty five to fourteen forty . |
| 22 | The mosquitoes and the noise of the guns were not as important as they seemed several days ago . |
| 23 | They sobered up at the graveside in anticipation of the encounter of Jennie and Mary but it was not as hostile as they expected . |
| 24 | Both Phyllisia and Celie realised that the men they had feared were not as monstrous as they had thought . |
| 25 | It can come as a considerable shock when reality is forced upon them and their life on return is not as wonderful as they had anticipated . |
| 26 | Things were not as bad as they seemed … |
| 27 | The chart may also help parents recognize that the problem is not as bad as they thought or that finally they can demonstrate the seriousness of the problem . |
| 28 | However , things are not as bad as they seem . |
| 29 | It 's not as bad as they say , but there are a lot of elements of risk in golf . |
| 30 | Recording behaviours can help parents discover that things are not as bad as they think . |