Example sentences of "[not/n't] so very " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To say that every inch of siding space must earn its keep by virtue of the traffic it carries is not so very far from the truth . |
| 3 | Unfortunately its path was not so very efficient ‘ … because of the murky inconsistencies of Turkish administration ’ .10 |
| 4 | Pollution problems are not so very bad |
| 5 | It was not so very much , after all , she might easily live another twenty years or more , and money was not endlessly elastic . |
| 6 | We also speak of being ‘ consumed ’ with guilt and , although we are not literally eaten away , the phrase is not so very far from the truth when you consider the harmful effect guilt can have on the physical body . |
| 7 | Rosemary Sutcliff ( 1973 , p.308 ) has stressed that ‘ history is people — and people not so very unlike ourselves ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a lovely piano , and not so very much out of tune . |
| 9 | So the world of every creature is different to that of all others , sometimes greatly , sometimes by not so very much . |
| 10 | Our three-dimensional appreciation of sound is not so very good . |
| 11 | That these same organisations apparently continue to do business suggests that either they do in fact offer something extra which the discerning customer wants , or that the demand is more elastic than one might expect , i.e. the average customer is not so very discerning after all and may have more money than sense . |
| 12 | Not so very long ago obstetricians used to perform a little tightening stitch called a ‘ husband 's knot ’ which would narrow the vaginal opening and accelerate the return to vaginal tautness . |
| 13 | It is hard to imagine that not so very long ago there were no words for sellotape , instant-mix , deep-freeze , TV , drip-dry , silicon chip or jet-lag . |
| 14 | We were not so very much alike . |
| 15 | The technology does not create the almost Utopian working conditions they describe , and people 's work tasks and conditions are not so very different in continuous-process industries as compared to earlier technologies . |
| 16 | In this case , instead of accepting that comprehensible input is indeed validly conceived as ‘ The ‘ Fundamental Pedagogical Principle ’ ’ and then looking at how it might be achieved by interaction , one might more profitably ask whether these strategies of interaction on the part of the learner do not suggest that the notion of comprehensible input is inadequate for explaining how language is learned , and therefore is not so very fundamental after all . |
| 17 | I looked down at the chart and saw that the island was not so very far off our course , and I knew that the Beechcraft was brim-full with fuel . |
| 18 | But perhaps they were not so very bad in doing so . |
| 19 | A story of Boudariah which is not so very old , I will tell you , but I think you will not believe . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Every poor person in England used to wash that way until not so very long ago . |
| 22 | Through the window , not so very far away , he could see the big black secret wood that was called The Forest of Sin . |
| 23 | And it 's not so very unusual . |
| 24 | Aye , and against the scavenging scum of the undercity , from which the Valence factory was not so very far removed . |
| 25 | Despite his scientific-sounding terminology , Katz is not so very different from Locke . |
| 26 | ‘ While on the face of it seems a very simple matter to decide on , I am reminded of the complexities not so very long ago surrounding the understanding of so-called ‘ brain-death ’ . |
| 27 | Mildew is not so very difficult to stop in the early stages , and there are several fungicides that will give it a severe check — all the chemical manufacturers have their own products and trade names which , like everything else , are constantly being improved and changed — but by far the most important point to bear in mind is that it has to be hit early and repeatedly . |
| 28 | Somewhere , and not so very far off , there was a musket fight . |
| 29 | In principle these recorders are not so very different from a normal domestic tape recorder , but they too are installed in the tail end of the aircraft and are heavily protected from crash damage . |
| 30 | For now , he added , Telekom is ‘ very cheap on short distances , but not so very cheap on long distances ’ . |