Example sentences of "[be] [adv] what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avoid " role modelling " for the successful models are rarely what they appear . |
| 2 | So that way the technology but the machines are basically what they had |
| 3 | Just a few hours ago this had been exactly what she wanted . |
| 4 | Tammuz lay in hir arms , his head in a shawl of Zambia 's hair and said , ‘ I am not what you think . |
| 5 | ‘ I am not what you think I am , ’ and I asked him what he thought I believed him to be . |
| 6 | I am not what I ought to be , |
| 7 | But , praise God , I am not what I used to be , |
| 8 | So far this year our revenues are ahead and still healthy , but they are not what we expected . |
| 9 | While these matters may seem perfectly normal to those who do their shopping in Albania or Louisville , Colorado , they are not what we are used to . |
| 10 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 11 | The portents are not what one would call auspicious . |
| 12 | Though apparently quite spry , the old men 's memories are not what they once were . |
| 13 | ‘ Wakes round here are not what they were . |
| 14 | Powders are not what they used to be and today 's formulations wo n't clog , streak or look heavy , provided you apply them properly . |
| 15 | And it may surprise you to know that a number of the county people are not what they appear . |
| 16 | Admittedly things are not what they were in the ‘ sixties when architects could rely on plenty of money from generous Governments to build lots of colleges . |
| 17 | ONE OF THE basic principles of the psychodynamic school of psychiatry ( founder S. Freud ) is that things are not what they seem . |
| 18 | But what is more dishonest is the simple fact that the wines are not what they purport to be . |
| 19 | Needless to say they are not what they seem . |
| 20 | Still , things are not what they used to be . |
| 21 | But times are not what they were three or five years ago . |
| 22 | It can be said that the first wisdom of sociology is that — things are not what they seem . |
| 23 | The names of Eaux-Bonnes 's hotels still have the old pompous ring to them , the Hôtel d'Orient et d'Espagne , the Hôtel Richelieu , the Hôtel tea Princes ( the ‘ dearest ’ in a ‘ very wealthy little modern town ’ in Hilaire Belloc 's day , but up for sale and miserably vandalized the last time I saw it , in the mid-1980s ) , but their clients are not what they once were . |
| 24 | Still hammering away , the Institute has the satisfaction of knowing that it has at last brought home to the Ministry of Health , within whose purview this question comes , that things are not what they ought to be , and Dr Eichholz , who has just retired from the Chief Inspectorate of Special Schools , is at its request making a special enquiry . |
| 25 | But if you wait , it will be hard , for my hands are not what they were . ’ |
| 26 | Once again , the setting is theatrical , and the perspectives are varied — Act I presents the audience at a play ; Act II shows the characters in the play , and yet even they are not what they at first seem , as Frayn offers both the lines they are delivering and the thoughts they are actually thinking . |
| 27 | ‘ After all , the National fences are not what they were . |
| 28 | Earlier he ends chapter three with a hint of humour saying that many people are not what they seem despite the appearances and begs her to try her utmost not to be worse than she appears , concluding : Here the word " form " is ambiguous referring to his writing as well as to a life-style . |
| 29 | Maybe his fish and chips and his welding background are not what they were looking for , though in Middlesbrough they would seem to be born for each other . |
| 30 | ‘ But Janet — the bank manager , when our finances are not what they might be ? ’ |