Example sentences of "[not/n't] as [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
| 2 | He 's not as All the programmes are changed this morning , the youngsters being off school and so instead of the news it 's all these youngster 's programmes . |
| 3 | Rachel was female , and therefore not as serious a threat as a son . |
| 4 | I mean , it 's not as nice a pint as now that Whitbread 's have taken over and half the time . |
| 5 | There are exceptions , but the fact that information is held in confidence is not as such a sufficient reason for exemption . |
| 6 | This is not as such an effect of the Council , but the geographical shift has coincided with , been stimulated by and itself has greatly affected , post-conciliar change . |
| 7 | But we can treat the zero exponent on the ladder of powers as the log , since its effect on the shape of data batches fits exactly at this point ; it corrects upward straggle more powerfully than taking roots , but it is not as strong a transformation as the reciprocal root , or reciprocals . |
| 8 | ‘ Having said that , fines imposed are not as strong a deterrent as they should be . |
| 9 | However robustness is not as great a factor on the desktop as on the server . |
| 10 | The geographical and social distribution of railway-workers meant that they were not as cohesive a force as other industrial groups like the steel- or textile-workers . |
| 11 | Sadly , it was not as successful a partnership as these others . |
| 12 | It may be unfortunate that ‘ God Save the Queen ’ is not as toe-tapping an anthem as ‘ The Star Spangled Banner ’ , but the muted reception of the former is surely more a reflection of aesthetics , rather than an indicator of national pride . |
| 13 | The general conclusion that emerges from this chapter is that social policy has been a positive force in economic growth though not as powerful a force as some of its protagonists have claimed over the years . |
| 14 | Doing routine drug screening on urine samples at pre-employment examinations — and even at other times as a matter of Company policy — may produce surprisingly high positive results but this information is not as accurate an indicator of addictive disease in general as a consistently clear set of personnel records noting information that the Company already has readily at its disposal . |
| 15 | In some cases this is apparently not as arduous a task as it may seem , simply because dischargers find it extremely difficult to portray themselves as ‘ similar ’ to their rivals on more than a very few criteria . |
| 16 | You want the boys to use their hands more , so losing possession is not as critical a factor as in senior rugby . |
| 17 | Reading is not as simple as it seems , and the reader is not as passive a receiver as we once thought . |
| 18 | The continued power and prosperity of multi-media entrepreneurs like Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell depends on their goods being ‘ entertaining ’ , and ‘ giving the people what they want ’ / ‘ making sure people want what they 're given ’ is not as straightforward a business in this context as it is often presented . |
| 19 | He was a good person to be in the band in the early days but he might have held them back later on because he is not as good a drummer as Simon , and that 's putting it mildly . |
| 20 | It 's not as good a show , musically or dramatically , as Wonderful Town or The Most Happy Fella most definitely are , but so much depends on what you want from a musical , and this is the one that I will return to repeatedly , just for the sheer fun of it . |
| 21 | He was not as good a poet , nor as good a clerk as Hoccleve , and was discharged from his job as unfit for office on 8 March 1667 . |
| 22 | I am not as good a pupil as I should be . |
| 23 | This is not as wild a question as you might suppose in a country where every Buddhist is a monk some time in their lives , and can slip into the habit again at any time . |
| 24 | Now that is not as significant an increase as we 've had in previous years . |
| 25 | It 's a perky companion on the open road too , although not as enjoyable a driving companion as would a Peugeot 205 or a Citroen AX . |
| 26 | He is not as forceful a character as Mike Lester , with less in the way of business acumen or entrepreneurial flair , but he is technically competent , and is not only respected as a manager but liked for his loyalty towards his subordinates . |
| 27 | This intensely concentrated yet spacious journey-tale gives an impression of urgency by Masefield 's typical ‘ and-then ’ pattern and the energetic sequence of dangers and escapes which comply with the title ( Odtaa is ‘ One damned thing after another ’ ) — not as flippant a title as it might sound but an example of Masefield 's virtuosity in the way he can mix humour , tension and deep emotion without self-consciousness . |
| 28 | The ‘ nation ’ is not as obvious a fall-back position everywhere as it is in those parts of the globe whose frontiers were drawn on Wilsonian-Leninist lines after 1918 , and neither is that old-time religion . |
| 29 | But without Ceauşescu 's discretion — Bucharest was not as leaky a diplomatic centre as Washington — the American President would not have been able to achieve the one great success of his presidency , the Camp David Agreement between Israel and Egypt . |
| 30 | ‘ Permit ’ is not as precise a term as ‘ cause ’ and denotes an express or inferred permission of a general or particular type . |