Example sentences of "not as [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I soon discovered , of course , that this discipline was not as simple as it seemed — as indeed the author tirelessly points out . |
| 2 | Making coffee , while Fen dealt swiftly and efficiently with the washing up , was not as simple as it sounded . |
| 3 | The wound was not as serious as it had at first seemed , but the bone was broken . |
| 4 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Despite Aurangzeb 's successful policy of expansion to the south , some Company employees suspected that his empire was not as powerful as it looked . |
| 7 | But at least a dream of empire was not as impossible as it had been in 1558 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This weapon was not as significant as it seemed : a two-thirds majority was needed for the vote to succeed ; the EC budget , despite the costs of the CAP , only amounted to one per cent of the Community 's GDP ; and , if the budget was rejected , the Commission would still have the right to spend money on a month-by-month basis . |
| 11 | Higher than its current rate of 1.8m ( 6.2% ) , but probably not as high as it had to in the mid-1980s . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 14 | But the surgery on Monday morning was not as busy as it had been of late . |
| 15 | ‘ Not as bad as it looked on first assessment . |
| 16 | things went from bad to worse then as United defender Colin Andreson got sent off … for a challenge that was late but not as bad as it looked … ref had different thoughts |
| 17 | things went from bad to worse then as United defender Colin Andreson got sent off … for a challenge that was late but not as bad as it looked … ref had different thoughts |
| 18 | But knocking on the second door she came to was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 19 | They soon found that running Easy FM was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 20 | Morag and Granny started on this job right away but they soon found that it was n't as easy as it looked . |
| 21 | Lowell , vaguely aware that the light was n't as strong as it had been , stopped fighting sleep and dozed a little . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was n't as cold as it seemed to her distorted senses . |
| 24 | But perhaps it was n't as bad as it looked , and in any case one could n't go on sitting here , being stared at by the whole of St Petrock's-on-Sea while Chignell waved smelling salts under one 's nose . |
| 25 | ‘ It was n't as bad as it looked , ’ Sacco said . |