Example sentences of "not as [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He merely notes that the bad news for technological illiterates is that the world is not as they think it is , and if they are interested in the truth his book will fill some gaps . |
| 2 | Sister Mary Leahy , who organised the prayer week at Seacroft , explained the purpose of these personal interviews ; ‘ Prayer is a relationship with God , so as a prayer guide , I would want to help people to recognise God in their lives — relating person to person — speaking to God and listening to him — coming to God just as they are and not as they think they ought to be . ’ |
| 3 | That 's the important thing about discipline , to make them see themselves as they really are , not as they think they are . |
| 4 | Mark my words : Falconer and the Abbe Gerard were murdered , and things here are not as they appear to be . ’ |
| 5 | Irony is perhaps too harsh a word for an incongruous and humorous awareness that things are not as they seem , for either of these characters . |
| 6 | ‘ Things are not as they seem … |
| 7 | There were erm , what I think , you know , things were not as they seem . |
| 8 | As Bones himself might have reported , ‘ It 's pop , Jim , but not as we know it . ’ |
| 9 | It 's pop , folks , but not as we know it . |
| 10 | IT 'S LIFE , READERS , BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT |
| 11 | Yes , but not as we know it . |
| 12 | It 's a care manager , but not as we know it |
| 13 | I mean Spock is more concerned with the external situation , and what 're they gon na do , and you know he says Captain that 's not rational , or this is life but not as we know it , er that kind of thing . |
| 14 | It 's life Jim , but not as we know it . |
| 15 | We learn to see God as he really is , and not as we have imagined him to be . |
| 16 | Not as you know it . |
| 17 | ‘ The matter is not as you imagine , God be thanked ! |
| 18 | Come here to see me if you will ; mother asks you , and I want you , but it is for you to come or not as you feel best , or as you like . |
| 19 | It 's not as you want |
| 20 | So it 's important to notice that in many species and certainly in ours , although males need not as you say make any contribution apart from their genes in principle , in fact males are heavy investors in offspring , albeit indirectly , so that must be important must n't it and that must |
| 21 | And what is more , I 'll give it or not as I please ; and I 'll be buggered if I 'll ask permission of some pushy little perisher before I do so . ’ |
| 22 | For example , I might decide the angle of light on my desk is not as I require it on the basis of assessing the illumination and the lamp which is the source of it . |
| 23 | Not as I remember no funnily enough but they used to have people who , who went out to work at different airports after the planes had gone out they used to have gangs that went out to Perton and er we used to draw equipment from er the maintenance un RAF maintenance unit at Stafford things used to come from there . |
| 24 | Yes , Dutch , yes , no not as I say , not far away , that was Deut the first the first one we heard was Deutscheland , and that was the Dutch one , that 's the Netherlands one , erm , written a long time ago , written in the sixteenth century , written as a piece of music , erm , the tune , apparently very very old indeed , erm , and Mozart took the tune , and made variations on it , which is perhaps why it sounds familiar , you 've probably heard it somewhere else . |
| 25 | Who can dispute the fact that , if the figures were not as I have just announced and if industrial relations had not improved , we could not have attracted our record level of inward investment from across the world ? |
| 26 | The message would be : Do as I preach , not as I do . |
| 27 | Otherwise , it would be a case of ‘ Do as I say , not as I do . ’ |
| 28 | Much as I would like to assist the hon. Gentleman , I can not as I do not accept that transport for students at boards of management colleges should remain with education authorities . |
| 29 | ‘ Not as I recall , ’ said Gran . |
| 30 | ‘ Not as I recall , sir , no . |