Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 2 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 3 | And there is no reason why consumer-led movements in the West ( and particularly Japan ) can not make it as unacceptable to use tropical hardwoods in the future as it is to use , say , CFC aerosol sprays today . |
| 4 | They did not treat it as equivalent to either the other nonsense word or to more or less . |
| 5 | Basle 's basic principle is that if the country exporting a waste does not regard it as hazardous , it does not need to ask the consent of the importing country in order to ship it . |
| 6 | Like the views of their predecessors in classical Marxist thought , modern functionalist views do not regard it as useful or necessary to demonstrate the precise mechanisms by which state policy responds to structural imperatives ; instead they focus on macro-social issues and trends . |
| 7 | They doubted that this act represented any substantial change in policy and did not regard it as sufficient to confirm Pakistani non-alignment in light of the continuation of strong military links between Washington and Islamabad . |
| 8 | They do not regard it as offensive to say they want a quality of life more than they want challenge and promotion . ’ |
| 9 | The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight . |
| 10 | ‘ But I think he does not know you as well as I do . ’ |
| 11 | Why fool around with money , or taking teeth out , when I might not enjoy it as much ? |
| 12 | ‘ If a girl returns it to you , good and well ; though a jeweller will not give you as much as you paid for it . |
| 13 | ‘ But because they were so busy with their business , he did not see them as much as he wished . |
| 14 | Tennyson is portrayed here as one who , despite his reservations about its temper , did understand science , and did not see it as antithetical to the sphere of imagination . |
| 15 | To someone without this discriminative capacity , either congenitally or because it has not been developed , a thing can present a blue appearance , but he can not see it as blue . |
| 16 | There are others that do not see it as structural . |
| 17 | But even the best brakes in the world will not stop you as quickly as hitting something … |
| 18 | If it makes you feel any happier , I will tell you that it did not cost me as much as a bouquet of flowers would have done . |
| 19 | As for ideology , it is quite clear from this account that Odilon Redon did not have one as such ( his connections with the anarchists of the period being tangential at most ) . |
| 20 | If , however , we take The Politics ofthe Developing Areas as a classic of functionalist politics , we find that the statements on bureaucracy in the area studies presented there do not take us as far forward as the theoretical scheme promises . |
| 21 | And she does not hear them as well as she did once . |
| 22 | ‘ So has my mother , though she does not put him as high as I do . ’ |
| 23 | For some reason , this strange conversation does not strike me as at all odd . |
| 24 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 25 | You do not strike me as ugly , nor mis-shapen , nor lacking manners . |
| 26 | Since I was twenty years old and had had some success in college debating societies , this possibility did not strike me as remote . |
| 27 | It really should not strike you as odd that I have been enquiring into your affairs — if I may so phrase it . |
| 28 | They will not accept it as true that they murdered God , whereas we admit it and have been cleansed of that guilt . |
| 29 | When a poll last year showed a huge swing in Essex from Conservative to Labour , Sir Teddy Taylor , the MP for Southend East , did not dismiss it as unscientific , as he could reasonably have done . |
| 30 | And it may see a child as a foal , and may not find it as intimidating or threatening as a mature person . |