Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | VISITORS to Belgium often sneer at the scruffy appearance of the country 's towns , farms and people , and pointedly note how much neater everything is as soon as you cross the border into Holland . |
| 2 | It seems that everything is as it always is in my kind of life . |
| 3 | Everything is as it has been and will be . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The Welsh Highland Railway has one of my units and another may be borrowed for ‘ Russell ’ in the future but that one is as yet in the very early planning stages . ’ |
| 5 | The final table for Division One is as follows : |
| 6 | I opened my eyes — everything was as it should be , although my next-door neighbour was having a party and the noise of music and chatter was plainly audible . |
| 7 | Satisfied that everything was as it should be , he checked his watch . |
| 8 | Everything was as she had left it . |
| 9 | Not everything was as I wished it , however . |
| 10 | She looked , and was impressed almost against her will , for everything was as he said . |
| 11 | At the Rabbit Grounds , everything was as I 'd left it — the buck lying strangled in the broken catapult , the sand kicked up and messed where I 'd gone crashing . |
| 12 | Everything was as she 'd left it , her case untouched . |
| 13 | Returning to Queen 's , he asked for , and got , a few gigs in the students ' union — ‘ my very first one was as support act to Blackthorn ’ — and soon he was working once or twice a week round the local pubs and folk clubs . |
| 14 | From the gently misleading acoustic opening chords of ‘ Power Missy ’ to the final screaming guitar frenzy of ‘ Peace ’ nothing is as it should be . |
| 15 | The same could be said for Bailey 's life : nothing is as it appears . |
| 16 | Nothing is as it seems , he maintains : he never really saw himself as the prototype Cockney photographer from Blow Up ; he sees himself more as Puck from A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 17 | Nothing is as it should not be . |
| 18 | Nothing was as it appeared to be with him . |
| 19 | Nothing was as it seemed here . |