Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents ' reports of birth weight and gestational age are sufficiently accurate for analysis and not necessarily worse than hospital case notes ; lack of accuracy would decrease rather than increase the strength of the observed associations . |
| 2 | Hence shareholding and membership are not necessarily co-terminous if share warrants are issued . |
| 3 | Quite a number of experiments leading to such identification have been with small aspect ratio Bénard convection ( Sections 22.1 , 22.4 ) [ 87 , 181 , 246 ] ; small in this context means not much greater than unity . |
| 4 | VSAT can use satellite antennae not much bigger than TV dishes and just as easy to install . |
| 5 | ‘ Why are Catholic churches here not so good as Church of Ireland ones ? ’ the man asked me . |
| 6 | Er she had but not so much as father . |
| 7 | The answer is that it does , and that the justifications for doing so have been set out above — not so much because rape is a serious offence , but rather because ascertainment of the facts is so easy that there should be little substantive unfairness to defendants . |
| 8 | Not so violent as war surely ? |
| 9 | Blow , blow thou Winter wynd , thou wert not so unkind as man 's ingratitude ! |
| 10 | It 's not so rough as some things , it 's not so rough as rugby but perhaps you do n't mind being a bit rough do you ? |
| 11 | I understand the hon. Gentleman 's frustration , but it is not so easy as Opposition Members keep asserting . |
| 12 | Discussions do take place within this Government — we are not so Stalinist as Labour 's national executive committee in these matters . |
| 13 | Methods however are not so important as outcome . |
| 14 | His speeds are not so driven as Rattle 's , the energy level is lower ; but there is a clearer sense of the cunning in the music . |
| 15 | Credit facilities are not normally available as payment is usually made when the goods are ordered . |
| 16 | Oral doses are not always successful because absorption from the gut is often impaired in these children . |
| 17 | While nitrate is not as potent as ammonia or nitrite , it can still considerably weaken fish , leaving them open to nitrate poisoning and a variety of lethal diseases . |
| 18 | But it is not as strong as gravity on the Earth — because the Moon is smaller and lighter . |
| 19 | Apparently , up until quite recently all Warwick basses were made with aluminium truss rods which obviously are not as strong as steel ones and are liable to break after being adjusted a few times . |
| 20 | ‘ but essentially I said that we could use other solutions to expand the blood , but that they were not as effective as blood at transporting oxygen . |
| 21 | Although side effects in our study were minimal , oral fluticasone propionate 5 mg four times daily was not as effective as prednisolone in standard doses in the treatment of ulcerative colitis . |
| 22 | yeah , not as cheap as garage . |
| 23 | Although the mechanical properties of copper-based alloys are readily modified by working and heat treatment , they are not as versatile as iron in this respect . |
| 24 | A cup of tea also has an effect , though not as powerful as coffee , which makes psychologists think it is the caffeine in both which counts . |
| 25 | However , this victory would only be short-lived because state power was not as powerful as class power due to the structural constraints embedded within the nature of capitalist society . |
| 26 | Mat. , though not as young as Matron , was great on being all-girls-together and thrashing things out across a table . |
| 27 | It is not that these writers were necessarily against the idea of a science of society , but they did argue that the idea and practice of social science is not as straightforward as positivism would have us believe . |
| 28 | ‘ She would never have to lift a hand to do an ounce of work — not as much as wash a cup . |
| 29 | Writing to the Corinthians who thought sex in marriage incompatible with the spiritual life , the apostle had insisted that marriage and procreation are no sin , while conceding to his opponents that , though good , marriage is not as good as celibacy . |
| 30 | This species is not as good as M. crenata , but will nevertheless do well in most impoverished conditions . |