Example sentences of "[was/were] not as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His brothers certainly were not as they formed a conspiratorial circle round Mike in the other corner of the yard , which all at once had become a boxing ring . |
| 5 | This section has paused long on the views held by some librarians on the nature of their role , and that of their collections , in the educational process because it was felt that such views were not as widely known among educators as perhaps they should be . |
| 6 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | There were erm , what I think , you know , things were not as they seem . |
| 9 | He was looking for signs that people were not as they first appeared to be , and Charity seemed to be a case of history repeating itself . |
| 10 | For all was not as it seemed . |
| 11 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 12 | It was patently obvious to Klepner , now that he had read the plan , that the European trade environment was not as he had been led to believe . |
| 13 | Round-bale silage was found on only a few farms and was not as yet widely used . |
| 14 | Now , on the corner of Monteoliveto , and only a short walk from other similar churches , he felt once again that little nag of doubt : maybe all this was not as it should be after all . |
| 15 | Madame Mattli might be a stickler for detail , with a generous helping of the artistic temperament which kept her tight-coiled as a spring and which would explode into frenzy if the smallest detail was not as it should be , but she also had a kind face and deep perceptive eyes . |
| 16 | Anita 's fiancé was not as he described . |
| 17 | Back in 1973 the Turin vice squad had a tip-off that all was not as it should be in one of the city 's massage parlours which offered a variety of therapeutic services , among them ‘ Overall body massage with opportunities for meditation ’ . |
| 18 | Inside the ring of mountains Wordsworth was not as isolated from industrial activities as some people like to think : a valley forge , driven by water power , ‘ thumps ’ in the closing lines of An Evening Walk , among other ‘ natural ’ noises of Lakeland midnight — but this may be considered unusual , and the image may in fact be borrowed from Gray . |
| 19 | That should have alerted me to the fact that Dr Tom Courtney was not as he seemed . |
| 20 | Richard Duke of York was not as Anne had recalled him . |
| 21 | Both were beset by a growing uneasiness , a feeling that all was not as it should be — that somewhere out there in the darkness , sinister forces were gathering against them … |
| 22 | It was not as though other people were speaking a foreign language , but rather as though they were using the English language as the basis of a code to which I had somehow lost the key . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ When I went into the Leeds dressing room to say kick-off had been delayed , the reaction of their management and players was not as I believe it should be . |
| 24 | Mr Ellis added : ‘ When we took over the line the state of the locomotives was not as we would have wished so we have embarked on a rebuilding process . ’ |
| 25 | Wilberforce was not the only representative of Anglican opinion , and even he was not as obscurantist as is sometimes implied . |
| 26 | It was not as though there was anything wrong with Sebastian 's ideas . |
| 27 | Moreover , housework was a highly privatised activity which was not as well regarded and was much less interesting than paid employment . |
| 28 | Although the art of painting was not as well developed as architecture and sculpture , there were , nevertheless , a number of Slav artists from the Adriatic coastlands who displayed considerable talent and whose works are to be found in church frescoes and other paintings on both the Italian and eastern shores . |
| 29 | If the world was not as I perceived it then it was possible that I was not damned . |
| 30 | Business therefore expanded at a great rate and labour was not as well organised or well informed as it is today . |