Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | His associate Auguste Laurent- and both of them were kept on the fringe of the French scientific establishment — was more hopeful : he believed that it was possible to determine formulae and structures , but not inductively as chemists had so far tried to do . |
| 2 | ‘ T is not herein as it was wont to be , |
| 3 | Ironically Stiedry 's approach , once thought , not least by the old Record Guide , somewhat peremptory now seems to accord with modern ideas of how to treat Gluck , not marmoreally as was then the general custom but as live drama . |
| 4 | It is indeed strange that Anselm never referred the question to Ivo , bishop of Chartres : he knew him as a friend , but not apparently as the greatest authority on Canon Law in northern Europe . |
| 5 | For most people , though not all as we shall see , the whole process of beginning a family is started by marriage . |
| 6 | The exposure and remedy of facets of systems performance which are not entirely as predicted is in everyone 's interest . |
| 7 | Mr Anthony Galsworthy , the leader of the British Joint Liaison Group ( JLG ) delegation , said that the four-day meeting ‘ certainly marks a return to business , but not necessarily as normal ’ . |
| 8 | This was essential to the development of many zones , but not necessarily as had been anticipated . |
| 9 | We perceive things as we know them to be , not necessarily as they are . |
| 10 | Making computers ‘ think ’ ( not necessarily as humans do , but in a logical , inferential way so that they can do more than arithmetic ) is a ‘ grand vision ’ for Edward Feigenbaum , one of the Prometheuses of AI , Feigenbaum is a computer scientist and senior investigator for computer heuristics ( common rules of thumb for thinking ) at Stanford University in California . |
| 11 | If such an experience can be recalled , it usually has the quality of being a person-to-person contact , not necessarily as equals in understanding , but cutting right through the barriers of status and age . |
| 12 | Looking at stress generally , and not necessarily as it affects nurses , the following might be considered as potential trouble spots : |
| 13 | By contrast , those who support the ‘ society-as-parent ’ position see adoption and fostering not necessarily as mutually exclusive , but as both being forms of substitute care whose boundaries may be blurred . |
| 14 | Appadurai ( 1986 ) provides a survey of some of the relevant literature , pointing out that in some respects commodities are not necessarily as divorced from wider cultural considerations as is often supposed . |
| 15 | And we cause the hunger and poverty , we , as the West , not necessarily as individuals because we insist on a lifestyle that acquires things and in doing that , er we 've subverted God . |
| 16 | In particular , accountants need to note the earlier arguments that even ‘ dogs ’ can sometimes be regenerated and that SBUs must be viewed as product groups or business interests and not necessarily as corporate organizational units . |
| 17 | As has been pointed out , the motivations of ‘ political man ’ are not the same and not necessarily as rational as those of ‘ economic man ’ . |
| 18 | Not necessarily as I five but as another fifty hectares as industrial or employment land whatever you 'd like to call it . |
| 19 | Using the arms alone is simply not enough as the swing is now restricted by the additional hand . |
| 20 | The proper name for cretinism is hypothyroidism , which means hypo is not enough as in hypothermia , thyroid means thyroid , -ism , it 's the three things they check for , can I pull that down ? |
| 21 | Buying goods from a reputable source is not enough as the supplier will be required to entertain elementary precautions , for example , sampling or checking the weight of the goods supplied ( s28(1) of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 ) and ensuring that the system can cope with mistakes . |
| 22 | Manners ' reaction to the delegation was not perhaps as anticipated . |
| 23 | What is not perhaps as well understood is the art of keeping a range of invertebrates together without such conflicts . |
| 24 | The Queen 's quiet and consistently efficient carrying out of her royal duties is not perhaps as easy to relate to as the more relaxed and smiling image of the ‘ Queen Mum ’ . |
| 25 | In one way the Chancellor is already brought into relation with the administration of justice , though not so as to enable him to modify the law at his pleasure . |
| 26 | By an arrangement between father and son , a disentailment could be effected ; but not so as to alienate the fee ; rather to reduce the son 's interest to a life estate in remainder , with remainder to his issue successively in tail . |
| 27 | ‘ Not so as you 'd notice it . ’ |
| 28 | There are occasions , however , when this is not so as some noxious or offensive gases have very low threshold detection values , e.g. many of those malodorants associated with sewage treatment processes which include gases such as methyl mercaptan , ethyl mercaptan and dimethylamine . |
| 29 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 30 | the Trader shall be entitled at any time prior to commencement of transit to give seven days ' written notice to the Carrier requiring that the aforementioned £800 per tonne limit be increased but not so as to exceed the value of the Consignment and in the event of such notice being given the Trader shall within the said seven days agree with the Carrier an increase in the carriage charges in consideration of the said increased limit . |