Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this clearly was not enough as far as Chaman was concerned . |
| 2 | I wanted to kill Blyth there and then ; the hiding he got from his father , my dad 's brother James , was not enough as far as I was concerned , not for what he 'd done to Eric , my brother . |
| 3 | From the various addresses given on the trade cards of coffin-makers it appears that many were sited off the high streets , yet not so far away as to be inaccessible to their clients . |
| 4 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
| 5 | ) I was becoming more upfront , and not just as far as food was concerned . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Over the past decade productivity in Singapore has risen fast , but not nearly as fast as nominal wages . |
| 8 | The Hong Kong economy performed poorly in the first half of 1990 , but not nearly as badly as in the second half of 1989 when it had suffered from the international reaction to the upheavals in China . |
| 9 | He flung the bedclothes back but not nearly so purposefully as heretofore , and he stayed on his back beside Clarissa who begged him not to go shouting just for once , because that was what the gramophone girl wanted , did n't he see ? |
| 10 | Aegina is not as badly off as , say , Hydra , or as Athens will be until the extra river the Athenians plan to tap comes on stream ; but this is a dry island . |
| 11 | ( In the event the estimate of 300 million was not as far out as critics feared . |
| 12 | I suppose I 'm feeling slightly sceptical about the situation , but if you ask me as blankly as that of course my immediate reaction , my old reaction would be ‘ but of course I feel confident about the future of British music ’ , you know , in my more sceptical mood now I still would say ‘ yes ’ , but not quite so enthusiastically as before . |
| 13 | Not quite so confidently as in Stratford ; or in Oxford , of course , where he had memorised whole sentences from the Jan Morris guide . |
| 14 | We knew each other before the Expo , though not quite so intimately as now . ’ |
| 15 | She had been expecting him to call , though not quite so soon as this . |
| 16 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 17 | Once he had recovered he played on , not quite as convincingly as before , until 1979 . |
| 18 | The girl had returned earlier , and prematurely , from the hunt , but was not around as far as Tallis could see . |
| 19 | But self-improvement is n't nearly as hard as people make out . |
| 20 | It was n't really as hard as I thought it would be . |