Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pah , nothing 's left from the previous existence — only the mere lees and dregs of thought , dreams of past time that the creature does not heed , or not half as much as the figments he has derived from Milton ! |
| 2 | It 's more aerodynamic , the interior has been improved ( although not nearly as much as it should have been ) , the new engine has more power and yet is no thirstier , and the new suspension means safer , more predictable , handling . |
| 3 | The central team of academic staff responsible for the management of the Course has grown with the size of the Course itself , although not always as fast as the individuals concerned would have liked . |
| 4 | Although not quite as memorable as Tchaikovsky 's Arensky 's D minor Trio is an extremely attractive work with some memorable tunes in it . |
| 5 | But activity is now greatly reduced , especially as the local market is in a poor state , although not quite as dire as in the UK . |
| 6 | Rehearsals were hell — although not quite as hellish as the first performances in Cambridge . |
| 7 | All these can be known in quite specific manifestations and not just as abstract truths . |
| 8 | ) I was becoming more upfront , and not just as far as food was concerned . |
| 9 | I ended up with a lot of material on the pressures , conflicts and obsessions side ; and not nearly as much about the pleasures , the fun and creativity of putting looks together , the sensual side to feeling good in what you are wearing , the pleasure of dressing up , or challenging people by dressing down . |
| 10 | It 's a great technique and not nearly as difficult as you might think . |
| 11 | Since then , looking back on it , there had been too many children 's holidays and not nearly as many lunches with girls in the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ as a man deserved . |
| 12 | But once I 'd taken the plunge and got myself organised , I found it was n't bad at all , and not nearly as difficult as I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 13 | The station was opposite , and not nearly as imposing . |
| 14 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 15 | And not nearly as much as we used to get back in the good old days , when alien abductions were all the rage . |
| 16 | A major report on the health consequences of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station has concluded that the effects have been limited , and not nearly as serious as widely reported . |
| 17 | ‘ It is far too defensive and not nearly as appealing as the American version . |
| 18 | No , I 'm wrong … they 're twice as messy , and not half as durable . |
| 19 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 20 | Sitting in front of the looking glass , making up her face , she hoped that Anthony was all right and not quite as heartbroken as Julia seemed to think he was . |
| 21 | The recorded sound is slightly close and not always as flattering as it might be . |
| 22 | His analysis suggests that the spending levels of bureaux will not be ‘ optimal ’ , but within the agreed budgets he concedes that management will generally be efficient , if not quite as efficient as the private sector . |
| 23 | the Capriccio recording is fractionally the more detailed if not quite as atmospheric as the new Virgin , which lends a warmer sound to the instrumental support that many listeners may well prefer . |
| 24 | Soon , a similar attitude will become commonplace in the commercial mid-range systems market , for the software vendors in the Unix market are just as committed as Microsoft in the personal computer world , if not quite as wealthy or ingenious . |
| 25 | Russia , to whom the Near East was almost if not quite as important as to the Habsburgs , also made considerable though less systematic efforts to provide herself with men competent in Turkish . |
| 26 | The social reality is that the uses of ‘ history ’ , if not always as crude and blatant as this , always involve selection , speculation and hypothesised connections , and that the scholars operating this process are products of a specific society , speak its language and are imbued with its ideology , so their work must always bear a complex if not tangential relationship to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 27 | The campaniles were separate but not generally as tall as Lombard ones . |
| 28 | Over the past decade productivity in Singapore has risen fast , but not nearly as fast as nominal wages . |
| 29 | A handsome fellow , but not nearly as handsome as Nevil . |
| 30 | The one she guessed was Seb because the hair on his legs was blond was the best , but even then not as fast as Nails , and the other two were in-between , but not nearly as fantastic as she had imagined . |