Example sentences of "have n't [be] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it perhaps has n't been as major as as people might er have thought it should be . |
| 2 | It has n't been as difficult as I thought it would be , so far … but I 'm determined not to have another smoke . |
| 3 | ‘ Arthur Andersen felt that we had n't been as strong on the commercial management as we should have been . |
| 4 | The interview with Georg , too , while unpleasant , had n't been as terrible as Suzi had feared . |
| 5 | She had n't been as long in this job as her last one , yet she knew there was a positive danger that she might soon be scouring the situations vacant columns again . |
| 6 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 7 | It had n't been as bad as she had feared . |
| 8 | She was upset , but later reflected it had n't been as bad as it could have been . |
| 9 | How much worse it must be for those who have n't been as fortunate as I in recovering from such trauma . |
| 10 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 11 | Skates is confident that , whatever its prospects seem to outsiders , the fast-shrinking Westborough , Massachusetts-based hardware manufacturer will weather the economic storm , while competitors that have n't been as prudent will suffer greatly . |
| 12 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 13 | Yields of Texas ' 36MHz SuperSparc implementation , due to feature in the Model 30 , have n't been as high or as good as yields on a 33MHz part , so Sun , under pressure to get Sparc 10 systems out of the door , is thought to have put together the Model 20 to take advantage of this opportunity . |