Example sentences of "not as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not as many as the Dome . |
| 2 | Ellwood et al. ( 1980 ) , however , argued that when the maximum depth of burial ( estimated at 12 km ) and age are taken into account , the sediments underlying the Piedmont , though not as altered as the surface rocks , are likely to have been raised to the greenschist phase of metamorphism and so presumably have little remaining hydrocarbon potential . |
| 3 | Incidentally , the interaction between the two programmes , and the fact that classical electromagnetic theory emerged as a reconciliation of the two programmes , inheriting the fields from one and the electron from the other , suggests that research programmes are not as autonomous as the Lakatos account suggests . |
| 4 | Life , civic life included , is not as simple as the purveying of fashionable ideas suggests . |
| 5 | His teenage resolution was shared by many young refugees , though when it came to offering their services they found that joining up was not as simple as the recruiting posters had led them to believe . |
| 6 | This is not as simple as the pinch test . |
| 7 | The relationship between these rulers and the princes of Ulthuan is not as simple as the titles would suggest . |
| 8 | Dexter loped along behind , knowing things were not as simple as the woman detective liked to make out . |
| 9 | Gambon relishes the Mafia boss routine and the scene where he gives Luciano his famous scar is somewhat offputting — but not as stomach-turning as the sight of a mad dog rival of Lucky 's biting off a hoodlum 's nose , then cutting out another 's tongue . |
| 10 | Not as tall as the other two , and a different personality altogether from the heavenly twins . ’ |
| 11 | It was not that Grom was especially tall , certainly not as tall as an Orc , but he was enormously and infamously fat . |
| 12 | it 's not as nice as the macros on WordPerfect but it 's adequate . |
| 13 | But we do n't get that now , they get South African 's now do n't they and they get Italians and French and there 's all sorts of things but they 're not as nice as the Californian fruit . |
| 14 | ‘ Very imposing , but not as fascinating as the fountain with the bull and dragon fighting . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And it 's not as hot as the Troop-either , sir . ’ |
| 16 | It should be noted that this concept of study skills was still not as broad as the full-blown information skills approach nominated in the proposal document , and was seen as achievable by one of a number of means which the committee considered . |
| 17 | As the Jensen measure is an absolute measure it is not as appropriate as the Sharpe and Treynor measures for the relative comparison of portfolios with different levels of risk . |
| 18 | In other words The Brow , though a significant development , was not as influential as the early Woonerven in Delft have proved to be . |
| 19 | The scenery was full and free , though not as grand as the west coast . |
| 20 | The room was not as grand as the corridor had led them to expect , but it was of reasonable size . |
| 21 | Balance chairs are better than conventional chairs but not as beneficial as the Gorman chair . |
| 22 | A possible story , but not as convincing as the one relating to σ . |
| 23 | Though not as deadly as the sea wasp , this jellyfish can cause severe irritation if it stings a human . |
| 24 | Holding companies in Switzerland pay tax to a greater or lesser degree , depending on the canton in which they are established , and the Swiss tax treaty network is not as wide as the Netherlands ' . |
| 25 | Although the venue is not as packed as the previous night 's ( happy ) Birthday Party bash , those who have ventured out tonight are a partisan faction in regulation red ‘ Eat Yourself Whole ’ shirts . |
| 26 | But anyway , if it were working properly , the ‘ Cube 's ‘ clip ’ light would only come on when you were actually overdriving the input stage , which is not as helpful as the Trace Acoustic version , which lights up green and occasionally flashes red to tell you when you 've got the input level exactly right . |
| 27 | But developments in the eighties suggest that these fears are not as worrying as the very real fear about other libraries in Britain . |
| 28 | This technique is not as useful as the torsional pendulum but covers the higher frequency range 10 to 103 Hz . |
| 29 | ‘ Charlie is not as experienced as the top men from Europe in the race , but the horse is not difficult , ’ added Hills . |
| 30 | Not as tricky as the original one this effect was discovered , I think , by Pasteur in tartaric acid and he happened to notice , he had a proper tartaric acid crystals . |