Example sentences of "it 's [not/n't] as [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hardly ever do , so it 's not as daring as they make out , is it ? |
| 2 | But each one said ooh it 's not as small as we thought it was you see . |
| 3 | It 's not as airy-fairy as some of the other criteria that er er might be considered as relevant to erm try and find a general location for this settlement . |
| 4 | IT 'S not as elegant as Linda Evangelista 's usual poses , but then who cares when you 're being paid £60,000 a second ? |
| 5 | It 's not , it 's not as expensive as it used to be . |
| 6 | Eighteenth on the Monday I think so it 'll be twenty erm it 's the fifth is it when I , no it wo n't it 's not as late as that is it eighteenth , nineteenth , twentieth , twenty one about the twenty second , something like that . |
| 7 | If you use 110 spring pads , the RR rear axle will fit ( it 's not as strong as a 110 ) and you will need to have a propshaft made up . |
| 8 | It 's not as strong as the Earth 's ; the Earth is heavier . |
| 9 | it 's not as nice as the macros on WordPerfect but it 's adequate . |
| 10 | ‘ And it 's not as hot as the Troop-either , sir . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not as literal as that , it 's actually quite an old song . |
| 12 | But it 's not as simple as that . |
| 13 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 14 | And of course because this is biological oceanography it 's not as simple as that there is a third category which is bio-intermediate . |
| 15 | But it 's not as simple as that . |
| 16 | It 's not as simple as that . |
| 17 | But it 's not as simple as it appears . |
| 18 | It 's not as simple as that . |
| 19 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not as simple as that . ’ |
| 21 | Rohan said , ‘ It 's not as simple as that , Sabine . ’ |
| 22 | So the experienced person will always be able to take the inexperienced person , it 's not as simple as that , but if you make the administrators responsible to the people in all their decisions , then you have as Mill says inexperience sitting in judgment on experience , ignorance sitting in judgment on knowledge . |
| 23 | It 's not as simple as you can have the P A , because you need someone to set it up . |
| 24 | Because it 's not as simple as it looks on this sheet . |
| 25 | But then , it 's not as simple as that . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not as simple as that . |
| 27 | It 's not as deep as some others then you mean ? |
| 28 | No , it 's not , it 's not as long as thirteen . |
| 29 | Of course it 's not as easy as that . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not as easy as that . |