Example sentences of "not [adv] as good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students ' views are not necessarily as good as those of recognized authorities , but it is still essential that the ideas to which students hold should be their own . |
| 2 | It is a magnificent setting but I do n't like playing music in the open air , and the acoustics there are not perhaps as good as they are claimed to be . |
| 3 | But perhaps more importantly , other countries found dollars not just as good as gold , but better than gold , since they could earn interest on their dollar holdings . |
| 4 | By these standards , Levi would appear to be an imperfect Jew , and this could well be an opinion that underlies the talk about his later books being not nearly as good as his earlier ones . |
| 5 | The painting is not nearly as good as the recent Young Contemporaries show in Manchester , where the sculpture was non-existent . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The visibility was not nearly as good and although the aeroplane was lighter , it was nose heavy , the controls were heavier and the under carriage was narrower . |
| 8 | We have already seen in section 5.3 that the employment situation of black people is not nearly as good as that of whites ; they are concentrated in declining and low-wage industries , work unsocial hours for low wages , have poor promotion prospects and are at greater risk of unemployment . |
| 9 | She said to me you can go and get it out , honestly , you know the other day he could hardly s well y you could see but not nearly as good as this |
| 10 | A lie is not simply as good as the truth : it is better , because unlike the truth , lies are completely malleable and creatures of their maker . |
| 11 | Anytime a westerly or south-westerly wind is blowing , for example , means you must be in with a good chance of making a catch , even if other conditions are not equally as good . |
| 12 | Also , what do I wear and will they say my legs are not even as good as Terry 's let alone Sue Lawley 's ? |
| 13 | ‘ Though perhaps not quite as good as the banana . ’ |
| 14 | As understatements go , it 's a beauty — a bit like saying the Sun newspaper is not quite as good as The Independent . |
| 15 | The tastiest are the Norfolk Black , a small-breasted bird which is rare in this country ; and the bronze-feathered turkey ; not quite as good , although it has a much meatier breast . |
| 16 | He is not quite as good as Mike Gatting , who works the ball all along the ground on both sides of the wicket , but Graham now has no fear of stepping down the track to any spinner and planting the ball firmly over long-on . |
| 17 | The Allied videos are not quite as good , but this probably reflects the greater number of types described and our greater familiarity with most of the types shown . |
| 18 | IBM Corp enabled Wall Street to start last Tuesday with a smile on its face , reporting first quarter net profit of $1.04 a share , significantly ahead of analysts ' best estimates — but the figures are not quite as good as they looked , because a change in the basis of recognition of software revenues . |
| 19 | JUNE 19 : Today the weather was not quite as good , but there was an interesting morning 's play . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Well , it , it , it looked very similar , not quite as good as it is now but er , it was n't no where near as wide of course . |
| 22 | The actual quality in the , in the er print the sharpness , er that sort of thing , is perhaps not quite as good as it should be but I still , an eight for that one . |
| 23 | This performance is not quite as good as human vision in a good light , but probably better than human vision in moonlight . |
| 24 | The correct naming of herbs is a third aspect which unfortunately is not yet as good as it should be . |
| 25 | Not half as good either : All hail the mini disc ! |
| 26 | Then , ‘ some clients are n't always as good as they might be : they do n't like being distracted from other parts of their businesses and , when solicitors need information and documents , there are delays in locating them ’ . |
| 27 | I would ask , will the men be accepted on merit , and I would suggest that in the past , only a suggestion , but I 'm very aware of it , that men were taken on and they were n't even as good as the women , so applied in the past , |
| 28 | You 'd think ‘ Oh , the 38th one was n't quite as good as the 19th … ’ |
| 29 | These are very very cheap discounted tickets er usually using what we might call the dodgier carriers of the world , not necessarily those which have got a bad safety records or crash records , but where the cuisine is n't quite as good on board , or you do n't get an inflight movie . |
| 30 | There were other places in Nottingham that had made nothing but hosiery machines and were n't quite as good as were at making lace machines . |