Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ His hip 's not mending as quickly as it ought , which makes him very impatient . |
2 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
3 | The fact that the long-stay population was not declining as rapidly as had been thought meant an expensive ‘ double running ’ situation . |
4 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
5 | Nothing she said , just a way she has of slightly turning and doing something else and not replying as quickly as she might . |
6 | I 'm not riding as well as I was and I 'm not as brave as I was and I have to face facts |
7 | I heard hoof beats and opened one eye to see my attackers run back into the trees , two of them not moving as quickly as they would want . |
8 | A spokesman for Destiny Technology said settlement talks fell through because they ‘ were not moving as rapidly as they could have . ’ |
9 | As we noted above , the latest 1988 BCS indicates , that indeed , crime is not rising as steeply as police statistics imply . |
10 | In general , observers noted that the economic reforms were not proceeding as quickly as originally envisaged . |
11 | cos these blooming policies are not doing as well as I expected |
12 | ‘ people with learning difficulties are not respected to begin with and because the women 's Individual Programmes , including skills training , are not in place , they are not progressing as well as they could and they are not getting respect . ’ |
13 | Even worse , the European empires at least left behind them working administrative structures and moderately healthy economies , which meant that most of the ex-colonial countries have managed to maintain stable states and thriving economies — although , of course , not thriving as fast as ours in the west — but the Soviet empire is leaving no administration at all , only economic catastrophe . |
14 | Ever since Cuntona joined scum , all of a sudden he s a class player — despite still not playing as well as he did for Leeds . |
15 | Her temperature was not falling as rapidly as had been expected , and this , he feared , had been caused by her determination to get out of bed too soon . |
16 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
17 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |
18 | What I do is to stop these last two if apparently indicated remedies are not working as well as I would have expected . |
19 | Luckily , the bus was n't going as quickly as it would have had there been no traffic , but it was still doing twenty-odd mph . |
20 | Thames Water says demand for supplies is n't growing as fast as expected . |
21 | So do n't write off the ‘ old country ’ yet Amanda it is n't doing as badly as it thinks . |
22 | ‘ She said he kept promising to marry her , but by mid-May she had got very frustrated that the relationship was n't accelerating as quickly as she wanted , said Antonia 's friend . |