Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be as " in BNC.

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1 And I was trying to grasp , in terms of this distinction , the significance of Philonous 's insistence , in Berkeley 's dialogue , that material things are ‘ senseless beings ’ , It struck me that Berkeley 's argument must really be as follows :
2 If I do n't make a Will , then the distribution of what you possess when you die may not be as you would wish .
3 The text needs to be watched closely for all may not be as it seems at first .
4 Wishes can of course be fulfilled or remain unfulfilled and things may or may not be as people with certain attitudes would like , but it would be thoroughly misleading to speak of truth or falsehood here .
5 At some point or other , though Jack has never discussed the possibility in public , he appears to have suspected that all might not be as it seemed in the Nicholson household .
6 This could not be as our drug supplies were not coming through so well .
7 In principle , of course , the conclusion of such a struggle need not be as straightforward as Dearlove implies in his own study .
8 You know what can be done elsewhere and how we can best utilize existing staff , it may well be as somebody has said , that I mean we 've got Rachel there , just to pick on one post , where you 're , cos it 's one I happen to know what 's she , what 's she supposed to be doing .
9 " I do n't doubt your business ability , " Henniker said tactfully , " and it may well be as you say .
10 Er and it may well be as Mr has suggested that when we look at it it is not a problem .
11 But it may well be as Mr suggested that er there 's l there 's gon na be very little difficulty there .
12 She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick .
13 And no doubts , never any doubts at all , that men thought as he would have them think , and would always be as he had always known them .
14 ‘ I hoped that the atmosphere backstage would n't be as I had imagined , which was the typical Manchester Iciness .
15 Some of you may be pissed off that the game was n't on R5 , but you ca n't be as pissed off as me .
16 Physically the process of cooling a polymer through its glass transition would then be as follows .
17 They have got to the stage having gone through the consultation , having done the assessments , looked at the alternatives , have declared that as their preferred route which er the next stage would then be as I say , the planning process .
18 The situation would therefore be as set out in section ( c ) above and adjudication is advised .
19 These will normally be as follows : ( 1 ) To your client , to acknowledge his instructions .
20 The future will not be as God/dess or fate decrees , but as we design it .
21 Dave said : ‘ The Tap and Spile legend lives on even though the Greenside will not be as we would like it until mid-summer . ’
22 The total accesses to home and synonym records will thus be as follows :
23 No doubt Clinton will soon be as shit as every previous president : breaking promises , screwing up the economy , stomping on small countries .
24 will now be as it was and hardly look
25 She wo n't be as damaged by you dashing her dream as you could be by continuing with something that makes you ill .
26 Wo n't be as after I 've give him one
27 But such systems can only be as good as those who use them in an original research context , and I have a genuine concern that an over-abundance of records will lead to confusion , or to the adoption of narrow and blinkered research strategies .
28 He argues that creativity in advertising can not be as divorced from selling as it is in these awards .
29 Secondly , therefore , the process of testing can not be as described earlier .
30 As a result the later Chapters of this book explore some of the these areas ; they can not be as focussed on the specifically procedural aspects of prosecution and trial .
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