Example sentences of "[pron] not so " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone not so far from here might just decide to take all those opportunities you wax so lyrical about away from you ! ’ |
| 2 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 3 | ‘ Call me not so ! |
| 4 | This gave them not so much a production holiday , more like two serials ‘ in the can ’ for season two ( up to and including the rapidly commissioned ‘ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ’ ) that could be recorded during season one 's contractual period . |
| 5 | In Protestant countries the morality of sexual restraint and fidelity was supposed to be binding on both sexes , but the very fact that it was felt to be so even by those who broke it , led them not so much into hypocrisy as into personal torment . |
| 6 | Until recently they were joint stewards of the Royal British Legion in Swindon , into which they 'd poured four and a half thousand pounds of their own money , and just months ago received a letter from the board telling them not so work so hard . |
| 7 | Layton 's ebullience was on a par with Ezra Pound 's ‘ showmanship ’ , and Leonard now found himself not so very far from where the great revolutionary poet ( of Imagism , Vortism etc. ) was actually incarcerated . |
| 8 | Its not so bad now either way , it was years ago always look down on people like that but not so much now |
| 9 | Such entertainments by Indians at stations which not so long earlier they had attacked became commonplace . |
| 10 | ‘ Did n't I tell you not so long ago that there was only one area of my life I could countenance sharing with you — and that purely out of necessity ? ’ |
| 11 | You not so bad mate , you ? |
| 12 | You not so good . |
| 13 | Yet that something not so much a thing as an eye . |
| 14 | Fifthly , to introduce something not so far mentioned , the objection may include the idea that if our causal thought did rest on the given conception of a causal circumstance , we should be able to do well at prediction better than in fact we do . |
| 15 | She reached down to take off Dot 's shoes , then her socks , one long , one not so long , one greyish white , the other a different kind of fawnish white . |
| 16 | The first book to alert linguists to the political implications of sex differences , Robin Lakoff 's 1975 work Language and Woman 's Place , is remarkable for creating a stereotype of its own — and one not so very different from its overtly chauvinistic precursors . |
| 17 | So the question becomes one not so much of scoring as of affect : did Monseiur Blondel sing Hymen straight , or was the part conceived rather in a humorous vein ? |
| 18 | No er there was one not so very I 'm sure not so ve not , not years ago but it was |
| 19 | No , I think it 's a brown one according to Mary it looked brown it brown one not so bad , I mean if it was erm if it was a grey one would of been a sewer rat ! |
| 20 | Were there not so much at stake , in the eyes of many Europeans , the American government would warrant disqualification from the talks for not trying . |
| 21 | Were there not so much , so dense and so hot , the Sun would not light at all . |
| 22 | Overcoming these rivalries , which would be pretty were they not so debilitating , has proved harder than talking about them . |
| 23 | You 'll find her not so well-tempered as she might seem ! ’ |
| 24 | The boy slept in a large front bedroom whose window , were it not so closely covered by an old woollen blanket , looked out over the once elegant front walkway with its crazy paving and stepped terraces . |
| 25 | For more than a week , a group of grey-suited former communists has played with the nation 's future with an irresponsibility and spite that would be risible were it not so dangerous . |
| 26 | And she names it not so much as an act of politesse but of evasion , even cowardice . |
| 27 | ‘ However the fortunes of war shall go … ’ , asks Théoden , ‘ may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth ? ’ |
| 28 | States have shown a capacity for self-destruction in the past and wars have come with a regularity which would be monotonous were it not so horrifying ; history belies the claims of statesmen to be in charge of events . |
| 29 | Boxers , footballers and athletes who eventually broke through at the highest level , in championships in football league , in international meetings , made it not so much in spite of their blackness but because of it . |
| 30 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |