Example sentences of "[not/n't] as [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I soon discovered , of course , that this discipline was not as simple as it seemed — as indeed the author tirelessly points out . |
| 2 | Inspection however is not as simple as it sounds . |
| 3 | It is not as simple as it sounds , but a shared openness to God in life and in marriage makes every difference . |
| 4 | Making coffee , while Fen dealt swiftly and efficiently with the washing up , was not as simple as it sounded . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Reading is not as simple as it seems , and the reader is not as passive a receiver as we once thought . |
| 7 | Because it 's not as simple as it looks on this sheet . |
| 8 | But it 's not as simple as it appears . |
| 9 | In reality , the calculation is not as simple as it appears in ( 8.33 ) . |
| 10 | The wound was not as serious as it had at first seemed , but the bone was broken . |
| 11 | Most young children luckily will respond to the authority of a stranger and so the task is not as daunting as it sounds . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's a lot of method here ; it 's not as arbitrary as it seems , ’ David says of the heady mixture of pattern and texture . |
| 13 | But even this is not as extensive as it appears at first sight for , in conducting an investigation on a complaint , the Tribunal must apply ‘ the principles applicable by a court on an application for judicial review ’ . |
| 14 | Yet the situation is not as healthy as it appears . |
| 15 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 16 | This would slow F1 — at least to begin with — and show the Green movement that F1 is not as anti-environmental as it claims . |
| 17 | Significantly lower down on the status scale is Gatorland , where you can watch a Seminole Indian wrestle an alligator and later treat yourself to fried alligator tail at the snack bar ; it 's actually not as vile as it sounds . |
| 18 | And we we we we and we 're n not as long as it 's put in the under God it 's alright . |
| 19 | A combination of administrative and economic factors favoured the revival of organized stealing during the final decade of British rule , but given the growth of population and the more efficient reporting system the extent of the crime was not as great as it had been before 1890 . |
| 20 | But there are several billion people in the world to whom such a coincidence could happen , so the apparent coincidence is actually not as great as it seems . |
| 21 | This feature is not as gimmicky as it sounds , as putting down a very hot air gun where it will not do any damage can often be a problem . |
| 22 | Despite Aurangzeb 's successful policy of expansion to the south , some Company employees suspected that his empire was not as powerful as it looked . |
| 23 | But at least a dream of empire was not as impossible as it had been in 1558 . |
| 24 | This is partly because the comparison of stylistic elements in different media such as vase painting and coinage is not as straightforward as it seems . |
| 25 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
| 26 | Transforming a herd of myotonic goats into a passing-out parade is not as easy as it sounds . |
| 27 | So encouraging Dawn to feed when we were out of doors was not as easy as it sounds , because her attention was completely absorbed in what was happening around her . |
| 28 | This is not as easy as it sounds , because the Christian Democrats and PDS differ about which electoral system should be introduced . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , this is not as easy as it sounds . |
| 30 | It 's not as easy as it sounds ! |