Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic motivation of all research is the conviction that things are not just as they appear to be , but are examples of covert categories and relations of one sort or another . |
| 2 | Given the distinction between primary and secondary qualities , such material things are not quite as they appear ; unlike their extension , their colour ( for example ) is nothing but an ability , stemming from their atomic or corpuscular constitution , to cause certain ideas in our minds . |
| 3 | The roads are not quite as they are shown . |
| 4 | Like ‘ the Shadow ’ , this is in fiction an external force with physical effects of which sensitive characters like Legolas can be aware ; it appeals to a recognition of truth outside fiction , however , in its buried statements that clouds have silver linings , that fortune favours the brave , that even in reality things are not always as they seem . |
| 5 | I am very aware that things are not always as they seem in Japan . |
| 6 | ‘ Things are not always as they appear … ’ |
| 7 | At the beginning of the second scene of the third act Antony once again shows us that things are not always as they appear . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're not exactly as I imagined , ’ Estabrook replied . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Plomer shows a fine ear for the dramatic exchanges of his story : his half-rhymes are as just as his formal pieces — songs , homilies and ballads . |
| 10 | Erm all the figures there are as far as I know full year effects , so there are no half year effects . |
| 11 | Even bottom right may be all right as it is . |
| 12 | I sha n't be in today as it 's Monday , but I 've given your name to Bill , the head librarian , and he 's expecting you . |
| 13 | You say that , but are n't is n't it th the case that the loyalists , the Protestants in Northern Ireland are terrified of any kind of deal that might involve Gerry Adams because that would be as far as they are concerned the ultimate sell out , and hence there is the danger of growing sectarian violence because of fear ? |
| 14 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 15 | I meet some of the bad ones er and see the work tat they do and I agree tat things are n't quite as they should be . |
| 16 | And my enormous thanks go to my own Table , Chester seventy six , very very true friends indeed and the same for the whole of my own area , Area thirty six Wirral and the Marches , where nothing has been too much trouble and they are here today as you 've just seen in some considerable strength . |
| 17 | One other thought I will write … you are even now as you were , and ever must be , beautiful , pure and passionate . |
| 18 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 19 | Things were not always as they appeared . |
| 20 | But no ball of fire climbed into the sky ahead of him and the familiar landmarks were still there as he passed the City of London Museum and slipped past St. Botolph-without-Aldersgate into Little Britain . |
| 21 | Lorton had known who they were as soon as he 'd seen them ; he had been expecting the police , though not quite as soon as this , and in any case salesmen rarely travelled in pairs . |
| 22 | Reverting for a moment to the last chapter , we saw that we could answer the question of how it is that subsequent generations could acquire the superego organization produced by the primal trauma of human civilization , but only is so far as our answer was limited to archaic hunting societies like those in central Australia . |
| 23 | He beamed at them again and Caspar was beginning to relax , because it seemed as if they might escape after all and Fenella was remembering about magic being very nearly everyday here , when Pumlumon said , ‘ Of course , that 's so long as I can remember the words . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ T is not herein as it was wont to be , |
| 25 | That matter is not really as we perceive it has been known to chemists and physicists for over 150 years , but despite Einstein 's demonstration , and that of other atomic scientists since , that matter and energy are interchangeable , we persist in our view that physical matter is solid and stable . |
| 26 | ‘ However , the situation is not quite as you 've described it . ’ |
| 27 | Something here is not quite as it should be , and it takes a while to work out exactly what it is … |
| 28 | But all is not quite as it appears . |
| 29 | A simple melodic theme is repeated over and over again , transmuting itself by a slow and subtle alchemy into something which is not quite as it was before . |
| 30 | It just it just takes the edge off it so it is a good tip actually it 's just if you 've time beforehand is just even as you were saying producing a thought pattern like this even just doing the first level just in pencil . |