Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we can say is that the landscape and the resources are already there as background noise and it will be people who decide on the importance of the new material and how , or even if , it is used . |
| 2 | Sadly , we are not yet as familiar with its correct or appropriate use . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The exposure and remedy of facets of systems performance which are not entirely as predicted is in everyone 's interest . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The roads are not quite as they are shown . |
| 7 | Member states are not always as Community minded when implementing directives into their respective legal systems as they are when adopting them within the Council . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There are two types of proposition in Freud 's theory which are not always as clearly distinguished as they might have been in his writing . |
| 10 | I am very aware that things are not always as they seem in Japan . |
| 11 | The rules are not always as simple s that , e.g. Classical Arabic has the stress on the first long syllable of the word , or on the first syllable if there are no long syllables in the word . |
| 12 | ‘ Things are not always as they appear … ’ |
| 13 | At the beginning of the second scene of the third act Antony once again shows us that things are not always as they appear . |
| 14 | Appadurai ( 1986 ) provides a survey of some of the relevant literature , pointing out that in some respects commodities are not necessarily as divorced from wider cultural considerations as is often supposed . |
| 15 | Despite criticisms that they 're only there as star imports for the match , the ‘ foreigners ’ insist they are at Oxford for genuine academic reasons ; the rugby is a bonus . |
| 16 | Anyway , you 're better off as you are : you 're a free agent and I ca n't see you married , somehow . |
| 17 | Then you 're better off as you say with an end one . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're not exactly as I imagined , ’ Estabrook replied . |
| 19 | You 're on until ten , half-past ten at night and you go home and you 're back here as soon as you 're up again . |
| 20 | Er and these , these little exercises er are meant to give you erm they 're memory aids really , they 're not meant to be homework , they 're simply so as er you know like if you , you want to remember er a difficult name you can sometimes do a funny thing with it you know to , to remember it you know . |
| 21 | The location of such deserted hamlets is an important task for the local fieldworker , since for many areas they were the most characteristic feature of the settlement pattern , although they are usually not as well documented as villages , churches and manor houses , nor are their remains as impressive or extensive . |
| 22 | In textbooks and audio material for language teaching the characters are usually there as pegs the language can be hung on . |
| 23 | It 's not been as far as the parish is concerned |
| 24 | We are now just as determined to move upwards as a university at the forefront of high quality research , contributing to knowledge and understanding relevant to the needs of society . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But I can not see what I would do with a home computer , one of which I am continually being urged to buy by manufacturers and retailers and by drops in prices of the things that are as near as a toucher opening up my cheque book . |
| 27 | Intermediate measures of support through loans and grants will be necessary in order to achieve viability , but perpetual subsidies are as far as possible to be avoided . |
| 28 | It will be up to the engineers to spread what resources there are as far as possible . |
| 29 | Erm all the figures there are as far as I know full year effects , so there are no half year effects . |
| 30 | They are as still as in Bryonia but it is because they are so tired and weary , not from the pain and their head is more congested than in Bryonia . |