Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squirrels are not treated literally as ‘ things ’ in the outer world but as , firstly , parts of sets defined by such criteria as ‘ those that live in trees ’ and , secondly , ‘ available for symbolic manipulation ’ since they can be taken to stand for the very trees they live in . |
| 2 | My great aim is to give you a periodical which you will not throw aside as soon as read , but which you will value and look over years hence as an old familiar friend , when you may be battling with the realities of life under the suns of India , in the backwoods of Canada or the United States , or the grassy downs of Australia , over the wide Ocean among the isles of the Pacific , or on the distant shores of Columbia . |
| 3 | Because technical terms are genuinely a part of language ( and not intended simply as items in a dictionary ) , they ebb and flow , and grow and contract , and shift in connotation . |
| 4 | Such musical devices are not intended therefore as direct Romantic ‘ mood-painting ’ ’ . |
| 5 | The torchlit streets , as he passed through them , were not given up as usual to the cats and the late-night lovers or revellers but were occupied by knots of busy , muttering men , putting up ladders and hoardings , clearing mud , hanging carpets for tomorrow 's Festival which was for St Nicholas and himself , not for the burghers of Bruges . |
| 6 | You simply can not plough down as you might do in deep , wet snow . |
| 7 | ‘ I would have been interested in Porter if Michael had not come through as he has , ’ he said . |
| 8 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 9 | Also , by looking at the activities you are good at and enjoy you may well discover talents and abilities which you have not considered before as being useful in a job . |
| 10 | The organization and mobilization of the electorate in the United States to turn out to vote and to maximize the party 's chances of success is probably not carried out as well as it used to be , as is evidenced by the decline in turnout since the 1960s ( see table 26.2 ) . |
| 11 | Unlike a winding-up , the board of directors does not become functus officio on the appointment of a receiver but the directors ' powers are substantially superseded since they can not act so as to interfere with the discharge by the receiver of his responsibilities and accordingly their powers are suspended ‘ so far as is requisite to enable a receiver to discharge his functions . ’ |
| 12 | So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all . |
| 13 | I nodded again , not looking up as I ate . |
| 14 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 15 | Would such a person , watching Peter now , reading the prayers of Rite B in his level , pleasant voice , notice that resentment lay , like his blood , just under his skin , because the life he had chosen had not turned out as he had expected it to ? |
| 16 | Their long , slurred vowels rendered their German almost incomprehensible to me , though it was impossible not to listen in as they argued more loudly and grinned more broadly at each other 's jokes as the beer did its work . |
| 17 | They therefore need not appear here as well . |
| 18 | ‘ In the eyes of government officials , therefore , ’ he says , ‘ businessmen do not appear simply as the representatives of a special interest , as representatives of interest groups do . |
| 19 | Ministries and departments were not organized so as to devise ‘ communications policy ’ that could encompass information technology and the mass media . |
| 20 | We can not do just as we like because we are limited , or constrained , by ( i ) the amount of money , or capital , we have ; ( ii ) the inventions , or technology , available ; ( iii ) the space , or land , available ; ( iv ) the resources , such as fuel or timber , or existing roads and buildings ; ( v ) the desires of other human beings which may conflict with ours . |
| 21 | He can not do just as he pleases . |
| 22 | ‘ The only problem is that we will kill your daughter if you do not do exactly as you are told . ’ |
| 23 | And we 're looking to , to do similar transactions in the U K , but of course with the lack of , or the reduced competition in the U K we , we may not do quite as well . |
| 24 | It is a sad reflection on the present state of constitutional monarchy in this country that one so driven to do his best for the good of mankind , as he sees it , should think , indeed know , that he can not do so as king . |
| 25 | The FMLN had reaffirmed on July 29 that the second 20 per cent of its guerrillas due to demobilize on July 31 would not do so as long as socio-economic conditions for their re-integration into the civilian life remained " non-existent " [ for start of demobilization in June see p. 38957 ] . |
| 26 | Moreover , it is likely that , in many tribal societies , this ability of women to bleed and not die was not seen simply as negative . |
| 27 | It is intended that these principles are not seen purely as constrictive rules , but as a guide to promote the positive development of Scottish rock climbing to ensure that sports climbing , rather than becoming a substitute for the traditional climbing , grows alongside it . |
| 28 | Pieces are not seen only as individuals , but also as parts of larger patterns . |
| 29 | The two halves of the heart did not ease apart as I 'd fancifully imagined , but clung desperately round one another like drowning lovers . |
| 30 | She did not look up as he struggled to open the door and stepped inside , where he stood perfectly still , hardly daring to breathe for fear of dropping his awkwardly held gift . |