Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
| 2 | Mr Sims , if that was his real name , dressed not so much snappily as very cleanly . |
| 3 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
| 4 | Dada accepted all the changes at Deer Forest , not so much apathetically as with genuine indifference . |
| 5 | But that 's not so far off as I am , I thought you were much younger than I . |
| 6 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
| 7 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
| 8 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not as simple now as signing a contract with somebody , ’ says Phillips . |
| 10 | Not as powerful yet as the Ping Tiao , nor as rich in its resources , yet significant enough to make him change his plans . |
| 11 | not as obvious perhaps as the white but |
| 12 | Now this was not as magnificent then as it is today . |
| 13 | Not as cold not as cold yet as I thought it was going to be . |
| 14 | It 's not as bad now as it used to be |
| 15 | The King 's Head revival features two distinguished veterans : Constance Cummings , who is amusing if not quite intimidating enough as Mrs St Maugham , and Robert Flemyng , looking every inch the judge . |
| 16 | Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter . |