Example sentences of "not as " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the State President is not as confident as he would like to be . |
| 2 | He also keeps the same brigade for years at a time because staff turnover in contract catering is not as rapid as in hotels and restaurants . |
| 3 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In a field landing it often happens that on the final approach or even during the hold off you realise that the first part of the field is not as smooth as it is further along . |
| 6 | Though this technique is not as powerful as the orthodox roundhouse kick , its sheer technical brilliance clinches a full point . |
| 7 | They do this because they are not as quick as the opposition and want to give themselves as much time as possible to play the ball , no matter that they also give the other player more time . |
| 8 | Since muscle is heavier than fat but not as bulky , a small increase in muscle size compensates for a larger amount of fat loss , resulting in a considerable change in shape but no change in body-weight . |
| 9 | The Easy-Carve is in fact not as noisy as one might imagine , but it is not necessarily a tool I 'd want to use for long stretches . |
| 10 | The conventional design , though not as fluent is more versatile . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These mountains were not as wild as the area around Maralal . |
| 13 | Gloss acrylic varnishes are available , but the gloss is not as high as that obtained with a polyurethane or oil varnish . |
| 14 | The choice of finishes for exterior woodwork is not as great as that for interior woodwork . |
| 15 | Some tile ranges still include what are known as insert tiles — tiles carrying moulded bathroom accessories such as soap dishes and toilet roll holders , though these are not as common or as popular as they once were . |
| 16 | However , Bonhams auctioneer Alastair Laird believes the actual numbers of artwork coming on the market is not as great as 10 years ago . |
| 17 | This is not as difficult to do as it sounds , simply because of the very broad maxima and minima . |
| 18 | Although not as extensive in its filter design as some of the above , it is still an impressive product . |
| 19 | Digital filter design is part of ILS 's product and though not as extensive in its filter design as some of the others , it is still impressive . |
| 20 | It is not as much a matter of generating meanings out of a text as it is a matter of making connections between a particular verbal text and a larger cultural text , which is the matrix or master code that the literary text both depends upon and modifies . |
| 21 | There is , in fact , a good case for resisting the takeover of literature by culture , though it is not as strong as I once thought it was . |
| 22 | In so far as the interview is a critique of Thatcherism — and that is not as far as might have been supposed from the headlines in yesterday 's papers — it is misplaced . |
| 23 | Not as stirring as the protest movement 's shouts of ‘ long live democracy , down with autocracy ’ , they include cumbersome chants hailing ‘ the great achievement of socialism ’ and ‘ warmly hail the victory over the turmoil and counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ . |
| 24 | Tony Gordon 's Kiwis , who will now find it difficult to go through the remainder of their tour undefeated , are not as tight and efficient a force as Graham Lowe 's team of four years ago , but with a virtual Test side out , should have been far too strong for Murphy 's collection of reserves . |
| 25 | The fades , whistles and crackles reminiscent of old Tony Hancock programmes came through because the ionosphere is not as stable as broadcasters would have liked . |
| 26 | The affliction is not as rare as you might think . |
| 27 | There has been a noticeable shift of working class support from the SPD to the far-right Republicans — not as much as the losses from the Christian Democrats , but enough to worry party managers . |
| 28 | Hammersmith Road and its schlock architecture is proof that conservationists are not as powerful as the architectural profession likes to believe . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the Government is doing not as badly , nor Labour as well , as it can appear amid the heady enthusiasm of a conference . |
| 30 | Or perhaps the Government may decide that the provision of cheap houses to its young supporters in the South-east is not as important as holding the thin green line , while cultivating the older guard . |