Example sentences of "[be] not as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below these slopes , north of the village and on various plots scattered throughout the commune , the vines are not as well sited , but they provide wines outshining other premiers crus . |
| 2 | Furthermore , women are not as isolated from each other as they are in the world of the 1980s . |
| 3 | Ought it also to include those forms of deaths , injuries , and economic deprivations which are not as yet covered by criminal , administrative , or civil law , even though they are violations of ‘ human rights ’ ( Schwendinger and Schwendinger 1975 ) . |
| 4 | Basically the thing is not working as it should , the outputs are not as they should be so he will probably begin by checking that the inputs are present , that is the electric power or fuel or other materials are available . |
| 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 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 7 | The savories are not as well known as the majority of culinary herbs , but they should be used as often as marjoram or basil are , as they have their own distinctive , spicy , warming flavour to add to many dishes . |
| 8 | " They are not as we were , " he said . |
| 9 | Our residents occupying rooms are not as well integrated in the community as those who share . |
| 10 | The physical consequences ( dizziness , headaches , tremor , increased pulse rate and blood pressure and increased urinary output leading to relative dehydration ) of caffeine habituation ( taking the equivalent of six or more cups of tea or coffee daily ) — or addiction ( the inability to stop using caffeine despite these adverse consequences ) are not as well known as those of nicotine habituation or addiction but nonetheless can be very debilitating and the constant stimulant effect can lead to significant withdrawal symptoms , particularly causing headaches and chronic tiredness . |
| 11 | ‘ Things are not as they seem … |
| 12 | O. valenciennesi rufescens differs from O. valenciennesi Lyman ( Challenger Stn 192 off Kei Is 236 m ) in the following respects : the disk spinelets are not as rugose as those of O. valenciennesi and the adoral shields do not or only just separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate , those of O. valenciennesi are more wing-like and extend to the genital slits . |
| 13 | Mark my words : Falconer and the Abbe Gerard were murdered , and things here are not as they appear to be . ’ |
| 14 | Nearing the concluding few scenes , Mark Antony provides a remarkably relevant passage showing just how things are not as they first seem to be . |
| 15 | Armies are not as feared by Western nations as they are by countries in Latin or South American countries ( to which I will refer later ) , in fact in the UK , by an attempt to cut government spending , it was revealed that there is great support for the army . |
| 16 | Erm , now we , we can explain to you in more detail , but the finan I think Mr 's already said to you that the financial savings er , from such moves are not as productive as they were , so in sense we 're driven by strategy here , we 're driven by the fact that there is a private and there is an independent sector that is there , there is alternative methods of supply . |
| 17 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |
| 18 | I can at least deal with it , I 'm not as pissed off as I was . |
| 19 | I 'm not as it goes ! |
| 20 | Muscle relaxants during pregnancy , these get into the baby as well and it relax the baby 's muscles and they would relax these ligaments and muscles around the hip joint which means that the hips can be not as they should be , alright ? |
| 21 | The Brigadier was red in the face : Things are n't as they should be … ’ he began again , and tailed off as the Captain indicated that he should sit down . |
| 22 | ‘ Things are n't as they should be , of course … ’ |
| 23 | Somehow I get a vibe off it that it 's gon na be a really good place to be , 'cos maybe things are n't as f—ed up down there . |
| 24 | No word to your mother mind , she 's not to be upset by thinking things are n't as they should be . ’ |
| 25 | if it was one on one , we would n't have anything to do , but it is the fact that they have got good technology , good materials and they are that much more than us , their troops are n't as well trained as ours |
| 26 | their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win |
| 27 | I mean we 're all worried in , in the world about cuts in various areas and the education area has its share of the cuts , we know the teachers are worried about their salaries and what 's going on in the schools , and even we hear from the University from time to time that they , things are n't as they used to be . |
| 28 | Yet the general position had improved enough for the government to proceed to its second level campaign — the creation of nation-wide cultural uniformity through mass education as the chief instrument of modernization in a period when technical means and financial resources were not as yet adequate for fast modernization through industrialization . |
| 29 | Towards the end of the era , in fact , the attendants in the salons of homage became alert to the fact that among their few Western visitors , the majority were not as in awe of the Conducator as they might be and photographing the exhibits or taking notes of the sycophantic citations attached to the awards by their Western donors was discouraged . |
| 30 | The scheme , unlike that of Germany , was ‘ fully-funded ’ , i.e. contributions were not as in Germany calculated on an annual basis to cover outgoings in each year , but supposedly accumulated at interest to pay the full cost of an individual 's benefit , as in commercial insurance . |