Example sentences of "n't [adv] [adj] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some felt that they had mellowed already and that they were n't so active as they had been before . |
| 2 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |
| 3 | This was n't strictly true as they 'd all had a go on the board . |
| 4 | they 're quite , they are n't as daft as they look , you know |
| 5 | The children say that the snakes are n't as slimey as they thought they 'd be . |
| 6 | When my father tired of the pretence involved in this relationship ( for he was n't as weak as they had tacitly agreed ) he had hastened to the other extreme and married a woman who , as my mother was fond of remarking , you could pour into a jug . |
| 7 | Lewis and Maloney so played up their own virginal roles during negotiations for a fight with world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe , that you wonder whether , in the words of Muhammad Ali , these boys ai n't as dumb as they look . |
| 8 | Morrissey and the lads were apparently miffed that their last two singles were n't as successful as they had hoped . |