Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers are not necessarily as transient as acts . |
| 2 | This is not as simple as adding a cassette tape and storing the messages — the sort of companies looking for voice record storage are often in a highly regulated environment . |
| 3 | It is not as simple as saying an embryo has a value equal to one human life which it is entitled to cash in . |
| 4 | In summary food intolerance occurs in Crohn 's disease but is not as frequent as claimed by some previous studies and its occurrence and intensity are variable . |
| 5 | STEFFI GRAF 'S hopes of defending her Wimbledon title have improved after doctors revealed that her foot injury was not as serious as had been feared . |
| 6 | Not as hopeless as expected but still a million miles from anything approaching relevance or interest . |
| 7 | Not as hopeless as expected but still a million miles from anything approaching relevance or interest . |
| 8 | And another thing you see they 're not as long as look , look |
| 9 | More work on government projects helped close the gap left by cash-strapped home-owners — not as profitable as kitting out private homes , but not to be sneezed at either . |
| 10 | It would seem , however , that the demand for gift delivery of hardback books at a charge of £4.99 ( plus the price of the book , of course ) was not as great as had been hoped . |
| 11 | These produce higher frequencies of digestion , with more than half the teeth in their prey assemblages suffering damage ( Table 3.12 ) , but the degree of digestion is not as great as seen in the species of category 5 . |
| 12 | Members of the House of Commons ' Environment select committee have concluded that the rate of destruction of Brazilian rainforest is not as great as has been reported . |
| 13 | Sendero 's immediate retaliation following the arrests was not as great as feared , but a policeman was shot dead in Lima on Sept. 14 and five civilians were wounded in two explosions . |
| 14 | As the following sections show , however , case load problems were not as great as predicted ; and although the development officers continued to feel some lack of back-up services they did not consider it a severe impediment to their implementation of the project . |
| 15 | To complain individually is not as successful as to complain within a unified forum . |
| 16 | Talking was not as easy as laughing . |
| 17 | ‘ Talking , ’ she said , squatting gracefully as she slipped down his trousers , real pseude trousers , ‘ is not as easy as laughing . ’ |
| 18 | Looking back at your career to , say , the last years of the Great War I am reminded of that poem quoted at the end of Pasternak 's Dr Zhivago , ‘ To live one 's life is not as easy as crossing a ploughed field' ! |
| 19 | Yes , towards — we 're getting back towards our original man in the graveyard — yes , I mean I 'd like to say that you 're saying particularly to Reverend Flatman what should he or his parishioners be doing to help this man — it 's not as easy as saying that somebody individually should be offering him a room in their house because his problems are far more manifold and deep seated than that . |
| 20 | If that were to be established , the defenders would be faced with difficulties in relation to witnesses whom they expected to lead but whose Reports were not as favourable as hoped . |
| 21 | The system is complicated and credited contributions are for some purposes not as good as paid contributions . |
| 22 | First , consider the situation where weight loss is not as good as expected . |
| 23 | My one gripe is that at times the control system is not as good as expected . |
| 24 | Does he agree that it is good that the British farming community is not as violent as appears to be the case on the continent ? |
| 25 | Its understood that announcement is not as imminent as has been suggested . |
| 26 | In addition , the prevalence of HLA-B8 and DR3 was similar in the two groups although not as high as reported in previous studies of primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 27 | Or perhaps the Government may decide that the provision of cheap houses to its young supporters in the South-east is not as important as holding the thin green line , while cultivating the older guard . |
| 28 | ‘ But even that is not as hard as recognising that the sum of human misery has probably been increased by what we did , incredible though that would have seemed to us then . ’ |
| 29 | The cuts , although severe , were not as drastic as had been expected . |
| 30 | Exchanging information is not as risky as sticking your neck out by suggesting an idea , so people tend to prolong information-swopping and postpone idea-having . |