Example sentences of "as [adv] [subord] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As like as not , we 'll have more than we can quarter by Sunday . " |
| 2 | He envied Boxer Sullivan waiting for him in the farmhouse , as like as not with a bottle of beer in front of him or at the very least a cup of tea . |
| 3 | The gatekeeper role may be fulfilled by the buying department but , as like as not , that role will be shared by influential members of technical and operating departments whose expertise and experience renders their technical knowledge indispensable to the making of purchase decisions . |
| 4 | From them it goes to manufacturing engineers , who , as like as not , discover that it can not be built as designed so far , and that the whole process must start again . |
| 5 | As for old age , it was a catastrophe to be stoically expected , a decline in earning power from the forties as physical strength ebbed — especially for the less skilled — followed by poverty , and as like as not charity and poor relief . |
| 6 | The British Property Federation ( BPF ) has gone as far as not only producing its own system for dealing with projects but , in liaison with the ACA ( Association of Consultant Architects ) , producing its own standard building contract to suit its system . |
| 7 | As often as not this was fixed and not related to the performance of the company . |
| 8 | As often as not , He has done nothing of the kind . |
| 9 | Electricity was erratic in the old , two-up , two-down house and as often as not the children had gone to bed with candles . |
| 10 | As often as not , the government would then act against the loyalists to prevent the increase in tension . |
| 11 | As often as not , they were the names of her favourite businessmen of the moment . |
| 12 | I do occasionally move through the range two at a time e.g. 4,6,8 but as often as not that is because I 've economised in not buying all the potencies ! |
| 13 | So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’ |
| 14 | She would as often as not weep during the song , and these were not glycerine tears , and they were not , except in the later years , produced to order . |
| 15 | They are therefore diagnosed , as often as not , as a chance finding during examination . |
| 16 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 17 | I had an instant picture of this docile boat now chugging at nine knots with a following wind on a choppy but inland loch , far out in the North Sea bucking and corkscrewing , the bow sickeningly below the waves as often as not . |
| 18 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 19 | The accusation is likely to become a test case for one of the greyest of grey areas in Silicon Valley : can a company stop its employees from forming competitive breakaway companies using technical know-how gained on the original job when , as often as not , the ideas are in their heads rather than stolen documents or pieces of equipment . |
| 20 | As often as not , we attempted to elude her , but to no avail . |
| 21 | Such divisions have sometimes been based upon arguments about strategy and policy but , as often as not , they have emerged from personality differences among individuals with volatile and opposing temperaments . |
| 22 | Thus , in France it seems that the general beneficiary of attempts by politicians or organs of the mainstream right to appear restrictionist on immigration has as often as not been the FN . |
| 23 | Go , for example , to a meeting of the European Space Agency and the place will be crawling with European technical journalists with only a few desultory Brits , as often as not from the show-biz pages . |
| 24 | Now , as often as not , it 's the women who are saying , ‘ Yes , we 'll have a family — when the time is right . ’ |
| 25 | It 's the men now , as often as not , who hear the biological clock ticking loudest . |
| 26 | But the Bratianu family abided as often as not by the principles of its imported Western liberalism as its inherited clannishness . |
| 27 | As often as not , these were men . |
| 28 | ‘ Our services are in English , as often as not . ’ |
| 29 | The £10-£19 group also consisted predominantly of husbandmen , as often as not occupying the position of leading members of the village community , ‘ commonly made churchwardens , sidesmen , aleconners , now and then constables , and many times enjoy the name of headboroughs ’ . |
| 30 | Commonly not exceeding a couple of pounds , the church stock reached an exceptional £7. 6s. at Waddesdon , Bucks. , though as often as not it was nil , or else no figure was given , some certificates consistently omitting it . |