Example sentences of "not as [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Not as prodigious as their thirsts . |
| 2 | Furthermore , monetary policy is not as crucial as fiscal policy because the latter has a direct impact on economic activity via government expenditure and taxation , whereas monetary policy only affects economic activity indirectly via the tenuous link between interest rates and investment . |
| 3 | There are still some inhabitants of the village who work locally in agriculture though not as many as of yore and many of the newer villagers commute further afield to their daily jobs . |
| 4 | And then he snared them — not too many : as many as he wanted and not as many as would frighten them all away or destroy the warren . |
| 5 | Not as many as I 'd like |
| 6 | More than that he can mash these lists of prospects together to produce delightfully implausible juxtapositions : exercise-bike owners who take educational holidays to the Ukraine ( there are only seven in Greater London ) ; lepers with a penchant for Janet Reger lingerie ( surprisingly enough , several hundred in Roseland alone ) ; Liberal Democrat Nintendo enthusiasts who are also Wagner buffs ( not as many as one might have hoped for ) . |
| 7 | But not as many as you would have if you were using the treble clef because you 'd probably end up with a lot of lower this is wha , that is n't a particularly good example really because it has n't given a lot of lower notes but normally you 'd expect to see more notes down on these lines . |
| 8 | Not as many as had first come , of course . |
| 9 | They have orders — although perhaps not as many as they had — but also cash flow problems , because the companies they supply do not pay their bills on time . |
| 10 | Not as many as women die of course but men even die of breast cancer . |
| 11 | However , it must be stressed that the High Anglicans reserved their contempt for the Whig bishops ; they recognised that there were some sound bishops ( though not as many as they would like ) , and they remained committed to the defence of the institution of episcopacy . |
| 12 | Even then there were a lot of women in the gallery business , though not as many as today . |
| 13 | Not , not as many as active though , because you could say that stock checks and checks are reactive because you 're doing it every day but , stock checks move the department forward on your stock reports . |
| 14 | There 's not as many as there used to be . |
| 15 | Not as many as the Dome . |
| 16 | A few but not as many as he 's got , not as many as he 's got |
| 17 | A few but not as many as he 's got , not as many as he 's got |
| 18 | Scripted , encoded , clothed in the scribble of Western electronic culture , yet the irredeemable flesh remains , not as other but as difference . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Termite fishing is not as simple or straightforward as it sounds . |
| 22 | Before looking at the bloom shapes and forms , we need to clarify a few terms which are not as simple or straightforward as might be supposed . |
| 23 | Although considerable effort has been made to develop an automatic release for the towplane , the problems are not as simple as they might at first seem and so far no really satisfactory technical answer has been found . |
| 24 | The general consensus now would be that , even if systems of kinship terms are closely linked to social systems , the link is not as simple as Morgan Made out . |
| 25 | But it 's not as simple as that . |
| 26 | The effect of apparently cheap capital was not as simple as it might appear . |
| 27 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 28 | I am afraid that it is not as simple as that . |
| 29 | Regrettably it is not as simple as that . |
| 30 | Life , civic life included , is not as simple as the purveying of fashionable ideas suggests . |