Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person chosen puts his face in the frame as if he is a picture and then he has to try not to laugh as the rest tell their best jokes and make the funniest expressions . |
| 2 | Though he , too , declared the distinction between written and unwritten constitutions old-fashioned , it is a pity that his summary has not served as a starting point for subsequent commentaries on the British ‘ constitution ’ . |
| 3 | However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market . |
| 4 | Clearly our valuable training input to the local area has not featured as a priority on the local Labour Party agenda . |
| 5 | The Northumbrians were instructed not to establish as king anyone who was illegitimate ( a slighting reference perhaps to Aldfrith and his descendants , or , for all that we know to the contrary , to other rulers — Aethelwald or Alhred ) nor to conspire to kill a king who was the Lord 's anointed , and any bishop or priest who was involved in such a crime was to be expelled from the Church and any layman excommunicated . |
| 6 | As the remaining congregation of St. Mary Magdalene had joined St. Nicholas Church , it was decided not to rebuild as a church but as a new Hall and premises for the congregation of St. Nicholas parish . |
| 7 | The damage was reported to the management and the captain was told not to worry as the item in question was in a damaged state before our visit . |
| 8 | Since 1981 the Bank prefers not to lend as such , but rather to purchase ( ‘ rediscount ’ ) bills from the discount houses . |
| 9 | The unfortunate side effect is that the Act appears not to require as assessment of the utterance as a whole elsewhere in the Act , especially in relation to sections 21 and 22 . |
| 10 | I am surprised that he did not cite as evidence in support of his case the moral philosophy of his own Monklands District Council . |
| 11 | Being a sentence linguist , this was something he did not regard as his concern . |
| 12 | However , the case is significant in showing that the court did not regard as an abuse of the court 's process , a second prosecution whose principal objective was to obtain redress or a second victim . |
| 13 | Though he denounced the American-led initiative to establish protected enclaves in the north as an infringement of Iraq 's sovereignty , he did not intervene as western soldiers got on with what is indeed a mighty infringement . |
| 14 | A member of parliament unable to gratify a constituent 's wish for a cadetship for his son had to explain that failure , and if age did not intervene as a barrier to future prospects , the politician would be expected to indicate when a successful outcome might be anticipated . |
| 15 | Cecil , you will recall , did not choose as his mistress a bit-part actress with a silly surname . |
| 16 | The interview did not go as the interview with MacQuillan 's mistress had gone and Rain was soon climbing ashore , silently cursing Crystal Daly 's gullibility . |
| 17 | Indeed , gastrinoma growth did not appear as an essential factor and , as shown in Table IV , neither sex , level of hypergastrinaemia , duration of disease , nor the type and duration of antisecretory treatment can , independently , account for neoplastic changes . |
| 18 | Puzzled , he wondered if she had gone upstairs to her children , which she did not do as a rule , and was about to ascend ; when from up there came a great cry , and the sound of a fall from the window . |
| 19 | Eochaid , approaching behind , looked drawn , but did not walk as if hurt . |
| 20 | The Church did not grow as a result of Protestants reacting to evidence of increased Catholic demands and assertiveness . |
| 21 | He did not mean as mistress to servant or patroness to protege . |
| 22 | Marcion 's principle of exclusion gave sharp impetus to the early church 's need to define which books did or did not rank as authoritative documents to which appeal could be made . |
| 23 | While a lack of entry qualifications did not rank as the most important reason overall for not doing a course , the 14% who did need entry qualifications may suggest that some of the non-enrollers had insufficient information about the courses they were applying to and , consequently , applied to courses for which they had insufficient entry qualifications . |
| 24 | Beyond this , it had little economic importance and did not function as a multilateral institution in any proper sense of the term . |
| 25 | During the Persian Empire Aramaic did not function as an international language in the same way in which Greek did in the period after Alexander . |
| 26 | Certainly , central banking was markedly different from our own day and monetary policy did not exist as an instrument of economic policy . |
| 27 | L. , 1976 ) water authorities had a statutory power to make orders imposing charges on persons not connected to mains drainage was held to be ultra vires as the correct state of affairs did not exist as a precondition to the exercise of the power . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the NSF led by former Prime Minister Petre Roman elected a new executive bureau on April 9 and condemned the NSF-22 December branch , saying that it did not exist as a party , but only " expressed an intention " . |
| 29 | However it did enable anyone who was in fact a trader , but the law did not recognize as such , to achieve something resembling the benefit of bankruptcy . |
| 30 | Sajudis did not compete as a political party , but backed candidates from several parties including the newly independent Communist Party of Lithuania ( CPL — see pp. 37128-29 ; 37168 ) , as well as independent candidates . |