Example sentences of "[not/n't] as [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , things are not as simple as they seemed at first . |
| 2 | I soon discovered , of course , that this discipline was not as simple as it seemed — as indeed the author tirelessly points out . |
| 3 | Inspection however is not as simple as it sounds . |
| 4 | It is not as simple as it sounds , but a shared openness to God in life and in marriage makes every difference . |
| 5 | Making coffee , while Fen dealt swiftly and efficiently with the washing up , was not as simple as it sounded . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Reading is not as simple as it seems , and the reader is not as passive a receiver as we once thought . |
| 8 | Because it 's not as simple as it looks on this sheet . |
| 9 | But it 's not as simple as it appears . |
| 10 | In reality , the calculation is not as simple as it appears in ( 8.33 ) . |
| 11 | Er that is not as simple as you say though |
| 12 | Life 's not as simple as you think it is . |
| 13 | Three young men with loop and stud earrings in one ear ( the lad on the Caledonian Canal fishing boat was not as individual as I had thought ) had three beefburgers and a pie each and then a chocolate KitKat with their tea . |
| 14 | He got drunk that night , though not as drunk as he pretended to be . |
| 15 | The man was not as tall as he had been in the photograph , he stooped too much , but he was still a few inches taller than his wife . |
| 16 | ‘ Not as tall as you expected , ’ I said . |
| 17 | You 're not as dumb as you look are you ? |
| 18 | You 're not as dumb as you look . |
| 19 | One prisoner writes of another in his block : ‘ He has an IQ that 's slightly above freezing temperature Fahrenheit but he knows that he was wrong and he is not as dumb as he wants people to believe . |
| 20 | Parents may have carried around concerns about a past event that they feel might harm the child but often it is not as serious as they think and the subject can be raised in later sessions with the child present . |
| 21 | The wound was not as serious as it had at first seemed , but the bone was broken . |
| 22 | they 're not as nice if you defrost frozen peas and then cook them are they ? |
| 23 | A. N. WILSON is not as well-informed as he claims ( April 5 ) . |
| 24 | I 'm tired this morning , but not as tired as I thought I would be considering two nights out . |
| 25 | ‘ Not as sharp as I needed to be , though , ’ she said . |
| 26 | The public infrastructure founded years ago when we felt rich patently does not deliver a quality of service we think we deserve — just at the time we realise we are not as rich as we thought . |
| 27 | And Joey found out that Lizzy , the daughter of a policewoman , was not as innocent as he had first thought . |
| 28 | Nobody ever told him where to draw the line , and he 's not as innocent as he looks — he 's got quite a reputation for wildness . ‘ |
| 29 | ‘ Or , ’ Ranulf grinned , ‘ perhaps the ancient ones , Dame Elizabeth and Dame Martha — maybe they are not as innocent as you think . |
| 30 | I 'm twenty , and I shall be a fully trained nurse in just over a year , and I 'm not as innocent as you seem to imagine . |