Example sentences of "'s [not/n't] [adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did n't think we 'd need two , and mine 's not nearly as good as yours , even if I could take half as good a picture . ’ |
| 2 | I mean today I 'm not gon na open me shopping on the bus but I mean it 's not nearly as bad as it has been |
| 3 | start , what to do or anything so , you need a little bit of practice at doing them for , for revision and then it , it 's not nearly as hard as when you first learnt , it pulls it out of your head again and then sort of puts it back in a bit more settled down and easier to retrieve . |
| 4 | He 's not nearly as tough as he makes out . |
| 5 | It certainly would n't have happened if David had n't done the music , but it 's not just as simple as that . |
| 6 | She says you have to have evidence of continued use over a period of time and in a variety of sources so that it 's not just very specialised and short-lived . |
| 7 | He 's not normally as bad as this ! |
| 8 | I mean she 's not not that bad but I would n't like to I mean |
| 9 | Getting on well with Matt — obviously there 's going to be some competition once we start work but he 's not half as paranoid as I thought he 'd be , a bit back-slapping , still I guess that 's Yanks for you . |
| 10 | 'e 's not half , 'e 's not half as dirty as 'im . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's not half as funny as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 12 | It sounds like a meteoric rise , but Dermot says : ‘ We 've all paid our dues in other bands so it 's not quite as spectacular as it looks . ’ |
| 13 | " It 's not quite as easy as that , Duclos , " replied the recruiter testily . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not quite as easy as that , ’ she said , her voice so full of sympathy that Dana looked up in alarm . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not quite as simple as that . |
| 16 | I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise . |
| 17 | It 's not quite as good as the bonking ladybirds that preceded it , but every single ad in the campaign so far has been a gem . |
| 18 | Erm again , it 's not quite as sharp as I would like to see it , it 's a little bit er unsharp . |
| 19 | It 's not quite as effective as walking on water , but it comes close . |
| 20 | That sounds simple , but it 's not quite as straightforward as you might think . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not quite as black as it seems , Mr Nadirpur . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's not quite as romantic as you might image ’ , he explains . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's not quite as romantic as you might imagine , ’ he explains . |
| 24 | It 's not quite as cold and empty as |
| 25 | It 's not quite as crisp as it ought to be . |
| 26 | And some people think that this matters : that when it 's wrong to mislead people — which it usually , if not always , is — then it 's not quite as bad if you can manage to do it without actually saying anything you believe to be false . |
| 27 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 28 | I have n't , mine 's not quite as bad as that but er he was wrong I think . |
| 29 | Up there she 's got no disrespect , somebody who 's not quite as bright as they might be er and she 's not working overtime as they would do here if they got behind , they 're working half eight to half four is it Ray ? |
| 30 | It 's not quite as thick as it was the other day when it was just er constant , whereas this really went in patches . |