Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't exist as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |
| 2 | It would n't exist as far as the programmer was concerned . |
| 3 | You know , very often when you go from one country to another you go through an area of re , what is called no man 's land , you come through from one frontier and then you 've got a distance and you come to the next frontier that does n't exist as far as accepting or rejecting Christ is concerned . |
| 4 | But it does n't matter as far as we 're concerned because one side of Katrina is just as bright as the other side . |
| 5 | The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |
| 7 | One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves . |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't do as well as she 's done in the majors without being a very good player , ’ said Jim Webb , the LPGA 's deputy commissioner . |
| 9 | She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one . |
| 10 | ‘ Bet it does n't work as well as in real life , ’ he replied . |
| 11 | I do n't work as hard as I used to . |
| 12 | Of course , our buzzers did n't work as quickly as theirs , and they got all the easy questions . |
| 13 | Her agent , Cleveland County Coun Alan Sykes , told The Northern : ‘ Things do n't look as well as they might be . ’ |
| 14 | I could n't run as fast as I would have liked . |
| 15 | I ca n't run as fast as you ! ’ |
| 16 | If Lindsay had notes — well tough — it 's because he does n't believe as readily as I do what people say to me . |
| 17 | You know fair enough , some of the older men ca n't move as fast as a eighteen year old , but on the other hand it 's what they got in their head that counts . |
| 18 | Elinor was sometimes at a loss for the right word , or name , and then became impatient with herself ; she was often frustrated because she could n't move as swiftly as she did before . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't fare as badly as some showbiz celebrities I 've talked to . |
| 20 | And I would like to say thank you to the people who sit on the budget review sub- committee , a committee which actually I do n't attend as often as I probably ought to , particularly to the labour spokesperson , for the way he 's guided the committee , both from within the chair and at other times , on it 's work this year , to be able to propose a budget which erm , so well fulfils the aims that many of us had when we were elected in May , which were of course , to maintain services , er , to squeeze efficiency out of the sy into the system and squeeze any waste out , and to get our officers working towards zero base budgets . |
| 21 | I do n't heal as quickly as I used to . |
| 22 | Did n't sell as well as it ought to have , that book . |
| 23 | It do n't take as long as they say . ’ |
| 24 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |
| 25 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 26 | Cos you do n't go as slow as this , even round here something like that Ann . |
| 27 | My pride of race did n't go as deep as my fear of disapproval . |
| 28 | But I confess I do n't go as often as I might , ’ Omi said . |
| 29 | ‘ I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I would n't go as far as to say that but I 'll admit you were in a rather nasty pickle . ’ |