Example sentences of "did [adv] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if a mortgage deed did expressly so provide , the enforceability of such a provision would , in our opinion , be open to serious question on public policy grounds . |
| 2 | His Lordship would hesitate long before holding that Parliament intended the Home Secretary to have authority either covertly to censor programmes or to require broadcasting authorities to present news programmes otherwise than with due accuracy and impartiality , but he did not so read the power . |
| 3 | In this case , although people were selective about which bits of the past they emphasized ( concentrating on state-renouncing ) , they did not so much reinterpret the past in the light of their present preoccupations ; rather , they polished an idealized account of rights , with their ancestors as heroes of duty . |
| 4 | They did not so much as consider that their physical safety could be at risk . |
| 5 | In a word , when I came thither first there was about one family in a street that worshipped God and called on His name , and when I came away there was not passed one family in the side of a street that did not so , and that did not , by professing serious godliness , give us hopes of their sincerity . |
| 6 | However , I am not at all surprised that many who would have profited had they won did not so vote . |
| 7 | Aunt Sarah did not so much as lift her head from the rug she was making , but Ruth watched the way the rug hook stabbed the canvas with increased speed and vigour , as if she wanted to hurt it , and Ruth knew that her aunt was as tense as she was herself . |
| 8 | Mr Whitney-Long 's evidence on this aspect was unsatisfactory : indeed the weight of his evidence in cross-examination was that they did not so rely in any material way but relied on other matters . |
| 9 | This positivist and functionalist adaptation of the Mannheimian legacy did not so much stand Mannheim 's programme on its head as turn it inside out . |
| 10 | The seats , upholstered in dark red leather , held you high above the surface of the road and shed a certain dignity on your journey ; you did not so much travel as process . |
| 11 | The movements did not so much drift apart as come to represent opposed interests . |
| 12 | During the decade , to cautious minds at least , it did not so appear . |
| 13 | He did not so wish . |
| 14 | Unhappily , he did not so often get it right . |
| 15 | I did not so much as flick a duster around the papers . |
| 16 | That change of historical focus would allow composers who did not so much ‘ negate ’ , as work through the social conflicts of the time ( such as Verdi , Elgar , Liszt ) to be readmitted to the ‘ progressive ’ ranks . |
| 17 | Again , this did not so much represent a ‘ betrayal of socialist ideals ’ as a response to the evident absence of any developed thinking on the part of socialists as to how ‘ planning ’ should be conducted in a peacetime economy , without the overriding and generally agreed common objective of victory in war as the guiding principle and without the continuation of ‘ dictatorial ’ direction of labour . |
| 18 | The trial judge did not so direct the jury . |
| 19 | I think he probably did not so regard it for he said : ‘ She is independent minded and strong minded enough for her will not to be readily overborne by her husband . ’ |
| 20 | It did not so recommend . |
| 21 | That he did not so do indicates he had some other categories in mind as well . |
| 22 | First , all the evidence that is available shows that the expansion of the social services did not so much rely on the workers made redundant from the industrial sector but rather it drew on new sources of labour — mainly women . |
| 23 | It did not so much reach a conclusion as slow down and dribble into silence , as though the players had got bored with the melody and let it slip through their fingers carelessly . |
| 24 | There was no presumption that it did not so intend . |
| 25 | Its innovativeness did not so much lie in the originality of the separate ingredients but in the recipe itself . |
| 26 | It did not so much contest with the establishment as succeed in areas like the mining districts of Cornwall , Kingswood and around Newcastle , where there was no contest in the sprawling villages which were growing out of the reach of a moribund parish structure . |
| 27 | The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories . |
| 28 | Pressures for a particular settlement in the Church , in other words , emerged from within society before the establishment of the new regime ; the eventual religious settlement worked out did not so much create the religious problem but rather was an attempt to deal with a religious problem that already existed , although in doing so the government inevitably created new religious tensions in the process . |
| 29 | Walsh was switched up front from the centre of defence and manager Brian Little admitted : ‘ I think he did ever so well and I am glad I made the decision . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He did ever so well in that match , which showed he has a terrific attitude . |