Example sentences of "be not as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark my words : Falconer and the Abbe Gerard were murdered , and things here are not as they appear to be . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Things are not as they seem … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'm not as it goes ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There were erm , what I think , you know , things were not as they seem . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | He merely notes that the bad news for technological illiterates is that the world is not as they think it is , and if they are interested in the truth his book will fill some gaps . |
| 10 | ‘ The matter is not as you imagine , God be thanked ! |
| 11 | It is not as she thinks a desire to ‘ make the most of it ’ , to somehow claim importance , but rather a recognition that in this oppressive society women need the care and emotional support of other women . |
| 12 | For example , I might decide the angle of light on my desk is not as I require it on the basis of assessing the illumination and the lamp which is the source of it . |
| 13 | Which is saying : Smiths are the victim of the vast cliché-ing in rock , whereby everything is not as it seems , i.e. note the present glut of supposed ‘ leftish ’ groups signing to major labels : Billy Bragg as the opposite of Wham . |
| 14 | All is not as it seems . |
| 15 | It 's not as you want |
| 16 | That should have alerted me to the fact that Dr Tom Courtney was not as he seemed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
| 19 | He wrote that it was not as he had pictured it as the weather was bitterly cold and wet with some snow . |
| 20 | Anita 's fiancé was not as he described . |
| 21 | For all was not as it seemed . |
| 22 | The attic was not as it had been . |
| 23 | There was no mention anywhere of Morpurgo or Mrs Diamond by name , nor hint in anything Harry read that all was not as it appeared to be . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If the world was not as I perceived it then it was possible that I was not damned . |
| 26 | 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 . |