Example sentences of "have not been as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons why there has been nothing outstanding about the rate of growth of trade within the EEC and between the EEC and third countries may have been because its members have not been as assiduous as might have been expected ( by the British at least ) in removing barriers to trade between themselves and with the rest of the world . |
| 2 | There have not been as many jobs lying unfilled for at least three years , and companies simply can not find the people they need . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could have been in producing statistically valid trials . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could be in doing statistically valid trials ’ |
| 5 | I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , however , management strategies have not been as successful . |
| 7 | As it is , when I use mine , I think of her , and of the generations of Merchants that have not been as lucky as I. |
| 8 | Perhaps surprisingly , although the figures show that UK membership has produced trading deficits , the extent of the deficits have not been as large as those of France and Italy . |
| 9 | Governments have not been as irrational and totally careless of life as the experience of the Second World War led many to believe . |
| 10 | The effects on public expenditure have not been as drastic as might have been expected . |
| 11 | I have covered the whole year , but because January is in your shops , February already subscribed , March imminent and April only recently covered in my monthly column ( 11th December ) , I have not been as detailed with these four months as I have with the rest of the year . |
| 12 | However , where such transplantation has been attempted , the results as far as productivity is concerned have not been as dramatic as management academics had expected ( Cole 1980 ) . |
| 13 | How much worse it must be for those who have n't been as fortunate as I in recovering from such trauma . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |