Example sentences of "not as [adj] [conj] it have " in BNC.

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1 The wound was not as serious as it had at first seemed , but the bone was broken .
2 And we we we we and we 're n not as long as it 's put in the under God it 's alright .
3 A combination of administrative and economic factors favoured the revival of organized stealing during the final decade of British rule , but given the growth of population and the more efficient reporting system the extent of the crime was not as great as it had been before 1890 .
4 But at least a dream of empire was not as impossible as it had been in 1558 .
5 In Liverpool , resistance was not as co-ordinated as it had been in Chicago a decade earlier , where the implementation of a quarter-hour telephone call-in system collapsed when all the police call boxes immediately developed mysterious malfunctions .
6 It was not as thick as it had been on the night Mary Lou Evans had died , but it was still sufficient to reduce visibility to about 30 - 40 yards .
7 Higher than its current rate of 1.8m ( 6.2% ) , but probably not as high as it had to in the mid-1980s .
8 Although the number of recorded offences in that decade was not as high as it had been in the 1950s it is nevertheless an important trend .
9 Yes , the going will be slow tonight but erm not as slow as it has been in the past erm so it should be good .
10 But the surgery on Monday morning was not as busy as it had been of late .
11 Lowell , vaguely aware that the light was n't as strong as it had been , stopped fighting sleep and dozed a little .
12 Improvement ensued under Tub LM1 ( again taken from a 5ml dropper bottle ) although the patient commented that the wheeziness was n't as clear as it had been on the first Phosphorus .
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