Example sentences of "[indef pn] be [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything is just as it was left . ’ |
| 2 | Which is saying : Smiths are the victim of the vast cliché-ing in rock , whereby everything is not as it seems , i.e. note the present glut of supposed ‘ leftish ’ groups signing to major labels : Billy Bragg as the opposite of Wham . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid everything 's not as I would like it to be here — you know , of course that we 've been without a Marshal for two months now — not that I ca n't cope after twenty years service in this village , but even so — ’ |
| 4 | Everything was just as it should be . |
| 5 | Otherwise everything was just as he remembered , even the faded yellow curtains decorated with turquoise flowers and green leaves : a relic of the 1960s . |
| 6 | In the morning , everything was just as it always was when Mother went away ; much pleasanter , with nobody quarrelling even in that dreadful quiet way of just looking and going out of rooms when other people came into them , and Gran told them several good long stories in the evening . |
| 7 | Everything was superficially as before . |
| 8 | When he opened the door and tuned on the light , everything was exactly as he remembered it . |
| 9 | Everything was exactly as it always was . |
| 10 | When he was sure everything was exactly as prescribed he got a Pan-Am bag from inside the car . |
| 11 | In the Store we knew where we were , things worked , everything was exactly as Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) decreed . |
| 12 | A familiar scene , yet one that had changed subtly since yesterday — just as everything else had been changed by that newspaper item , the whole of her life being undermined making her feel that nothing was quite as it had seemed . |