Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stone face , lively and young as it was , had a certainty about it the boy could not claim as yet . |
| 2 | The engine would not run as well as the distributor advance curve is wrong for this RR camshaft and heavy flywheel combination . |
| 3 | Theodore Barber of Medfield State Hospital in Massachusetts has carried out a series of experiments which suggest that there is nothing a hypnotised subject will do that a motivated non-hypnotised person will not do as well . |
| 4 | Some of the listed newcomers may not sell as well as the established names mentioned beneath them , but they are there very often because publishers are promoting them heavily , and I have tried to pick the best of these . |
| 5 | But Searle does not show why the computer would not do as well as the Westerner , in conditions where he or it can learn meanings . |
| 6 | ‘ The boys do their best , but the girls seem to be making a better job of it ’ gave the impression that boys ca n't dance as well as girls . |
| 7 | ‘ The boys do their best , but the girls seem to be making a better job of it ’ gave the impression that boys ca n't dance as well as girls . |