Example sentences of "be not as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find I am not as pleased by this as I thought I might be . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't because I am not as good as they are , and it has nothing to do with the state of the ball . ’ |
| 3 | I am not as good a pupil as I should be . |
| 4 | I am not as familiar with Walton prison as my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool , Broadgreen ( Mr. Fields ) , but I have visited the prison and I have seen the conditions under which prisoners and staff have to labour . |
| 5 | Kirsch is a good addition , but I am not as crazy about this combination as Europe seems to be ; orange of any kind is much better . |
| 6 | I 'm working and if I am sometimes worried , at least I am not as short of money as I was before . |
| 7 | These are not as hot as they usually are are they ? |
| 8 | On the demand side , consumer sovereignty is not possible since the consumers are not as well-informed about their conditions and treatments as the supplier . |
| 9 | The inquiry will examine whether pilot error or mechanical breakdown was to blame , but one expert says Russian aerobatics pilots are not as experienced as their Western counterparts . |
| 10 | Charged solitons are not as mobile as their neutral counterparts . |
| 11 | Although considerable effort has been made to develop an automatic release for the towplane , the problems are not as simple as they might at first seem and so far no really satisfactory technical answer has been found . |
| 12 | In practice matters are not as simple as this , and there is the resolution of the reader to be taken into account . |
| 13 | Before looking at the bloom shapes and forms , we need to clarify a few terms which are not as simple or straightforward as might be supposed . |
| 14 | However , things are not as simple as they seemed at first . |
| 15 | Now , if you then go back to Freud , what you can immediately see , is that things are not as simple as we , as we may have thought . |
| 16 | It is equally true that they are not as suitable for a truly mixed sequential-direct application as indexed sequential files . |
| 17 | Mr Montignac 's theories are not as strange as they sound . |
| 18 | Where these opportunities are not as good as possible , we have tried to show some of the many ways in which older people can be helped . |
| 19 | The cows are not as good for milk as the Aubrac or Salers : there was crossing with Durham Shorthorns in the eighteenth century to help milk yields from an essentially draught-and-meat animal but this was discarded when it was decided to concentrate on beef from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | As we get older our bodies are not as good at keeping warm as they once were . |
| 21 | The picture delivered to a PAL screen from an NTSC tape are not as good as the original , but they will be quite good enough for most viewers wanting to watch family tapes from abroad . |
| 22 | Perhaps the main consequences of the lack of high intelligence in animals is that they are not as good as we are at fooling themselves . |
| 23 | If France 's surviving financial records are not as good as English ones , her legal archives , particularly those of that great central institution , the Parlement of Paris , have left us with a remarkable human record of the effects of war upon society in France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . |
| 24 | However , the 1988 criteria are not as good as current ideas , so it is important that the universities that are forging ahead should be encouraged . |
| 25 | As we get older our bodies are not as good at keeping warm as they used to be . |
| 26 | Even the Birds Eye ones , the pre-packed ones and what have you , frozen , are not as good as ours and that 's the customers that tell us that . |
| 27 | There are not as many cars as pigs in the Netherlands , but the country nevertheless has the greatest density of cars anywhere in the world — 128/km ; Britain , by contrast has 59 , Japan 47 and France a mere 28 . |
| 28 | Obviously you will encounter some limitations , as there are not as many different-coloured leaves as there are flowers . |
| 29 | ‘ There are not as many nuclear power stations as expected , there is more uranium than was thought , and the fast-breeder reactors which used the reprocessed fuel have been abandoned as a failure . |
| 30 | Look at at one time the and you had er well you 've got Johnnie Walkers but there are not as many works in that either . |