Example sentences of "thing [be] not [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic motivation of all research is the conviction that things are not just as they appear to be , but are examples of covert categories and relations of one sort or another . |
| 2 | Given the distinction between primary and secondary qualities , such material things are not quite as they appear ; unlike their extension , their colour ( for example ) is nothing but an ability , stemming from their atomic or corpuscular constitution , to cause certain ideas in our minds . |
| 3 | Like ‘ the Shadow ’ , this is in fiction an external force with physical effects of which sensitive characters like Legolas can be aware ; it appeals to a recognition of truth outside fiction , however , in its buried statements that clouds have silver linings , that fortune favours the brave , that even in reality things are not always as they seem . |
| 4 | I am very aware that things are not always as they seem in Japan . |
| 5 | ‘ Things are not always as they appear … ’ |
| 6 | At the beginning of the second scene of the third act Antony once again shows us that things are not always as they appear . |
| 7 | Like all basically lazy people he was content to let things be not only when they were going well , but also when they merely appeared to be going well . |
| 8 | Things were not always as they appeared . |