Example sentences of "not [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at stress generally , and not necessarily as it affects nurses , the following might be considered as potential trouble spots : |
| 2 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 3 | Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires . |
| 4 | The court quashed the Minister 's decision on the ground that he should have considered the school 's application in the wider context and not only as it affected the particular school . |
| 5 | Market related pricing has shown itself to be effective in ensuring that consumers are aware of the real value of the resources they use , not only as it affects energy consumption but also in the realms of energy efficiency investment . |
| 6 | The two figures have been kind of squelched together just as in , in Exodus there are two , sorry in erm in er Genesis there are two er Garden of Eden stories so they claim there are two Moses figures who have been erm as it were compounded together , but both of them says Freud were powerful religious leaders and they probably did give their followers moral principles , perhaps not exactly as we have but something very like it and so Freud is not sceptical about that . |
| 7 | But her radio was in place , her maps and street guide and other papers were still present although not exactly as she had left them . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're not exactly as I imagined , ’ Estabrook replied . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Things are not always as they appear … ’ |
| 11 | At the beginning of the second scene of the third act Antony once again shows us that things are not always as they appear . |
| 12 | Things were not always as they appeared . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I am very aware that things are not always as they seem in Japan . |
| 15 | Mark Greatbatch hit 80 not out as they made 163–1 in their second innings . |
| 16 | Jones hit a gritty 99 not out as he carried his bat for Fron Dinas in a Tysilio Cup first round victory over Pwllheli by 166 runs . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The off-licence was empty except for two drop-outs buying canned beer : the proprietor contrived to address Scarlet and Constance without once taking his eyes off his other customers , not even as he wrapped a bottle of Smirnoff and extracted six cans of Long Life from under the glass counter . |
| 19 | Bearing in mind that although not here as I said , but he he he worked for his father . |
| 20 | Historically local government in England and Wales is a fascinating subject and from its study it will be found that local government whilst not quite as we know it today , existed for centuries before the first parliament was ever convened . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For instance , there is usually a starting assumption that individuals make history , at least by the sum of their actions and even if not quite as they intended it to be . |
| 23 | But all is not quite as it appears . |
| 24 | That 's not quite as I remember it , Melissa thought , but let the inaccuracy pass unchallenged . |
| 25 | ‘ Not quite as I imagined . |
| 26 | ‘ However , the situation is not quite as you 've described it . ’ |
| 27 | Julian felt no pity , only a detached curiosity and wonder ; for he was not quite as she had imagined him , neither so malevolent nor so formidable . |
| 28 | Forster settled down , only putting his eye to the slit every half minute , not continually as he had started to do . |