Example sentences of "has not [vb pp] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | Since the opening of the Sterling Commercial Paper ( SCP ) market in 1986 , there have been regular issues but the market has not developed as quickly as national ( as opposed to euro ) commercial paper markets in many other European countries . |
2 | EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada . |
3 | The rapidly rising birth rate is only part of the explanation , since the birth rate has not risen as fast as urban populations have increased . |
4 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
5 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
6 | This sector of the market has not expanded as rapidly as expected . |
7 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
8 | Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped . |
9 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |