Example sentences of "and [not/n't] so " in BNC.
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| 31 | At institutions of higher education across the country , young ( and not so young ) hopefuls settled down to study , conscious of the shortcomings within the Chinese political system but prepared to do their best for national reconstruction . |
| 32 | Some catchy and not so catchy tunes help spread the green message . |
| 33 | Equally sensational to experience is the twin guitar team of brother Rich Robinson and not so raw recruit Marc Ford , who was formerly axe man for Burning Tree and now replaces the ditched Jeff Cease . |
| 34 | The willingness of so many conservative Spaniards , rich and not so rich alike , to embrace ‘ accidentalism ’ condemned the extreme , openly anti-republican right to a state of deceptive weakness between 1931 and 1933 . |
| 35 | Many new ( and not so new ) knitters find this a puzzle . |
| 36 | Kit 's brothel down there was noted for it ; and the dirty old customers , and not so old , some of them , came in their carriages , but after dark , of course . |
| 37 | My first attempt was a portrait study of a child done from life ; an impossible subject to do directly in paint and not so easy even as a simple drawing . |
| 38 | To the cynical and not so cynical , it seemed clear that Britain was seeking to secure the best of two worlds : to take advantage of the market opportunities for its own industrial goods that a free trade area would provide , while still retaining its special economic arrangements with the Commonwealth , especially its cheap food policy . |
| 39 | Particularly in secluded , well sheltered , and not so well ventilated gardens , the open centre — and perhaps also the planting distance between plants so that they do not merge and clash — is more important with Floribundas . |
| 40 | Somewhere , and not so very far off , there was a musket fight . |
| 41 | I agree wholeheartedly , too , with testing — but the tests have to be right — and not so overwhelming that hundreds of hours of teaching time are lost to those children waiting their turn to be tested . |
| 42 | Moreover the story is basically one of the dynamics of medical specialisation — London 's story of hidden ( and not so hidden ) subspecialties is even more apparent in Paris . |
| 43 | Yet she was itching to move to the metropolis and bombarded her parents with subtle and not so subtle requests . |
| 44 | An excellent pub catering for the sedate , the posh and not so posh residents of select Newington . |
| 45 | It 's amazing the number of snags you can stumble across by removing dirt and grime from every accessible — and not so accessible — spot . |
| 46 | By using such evidence the historian can come to terms with some of the everyday reality of the war , and how it touched the lives and outlook of men and women , famous and not so famous , rich and poor , whose experiences are described in the proceedings of civil and criminal cases which have come down to us in some number . |
| 47 | The house that William had found was down one of the side streets and not so majestic , but it still had a fair bit of the Gothic about it , and the brass knocker on the front door had the face of an ogre . |
| 48 | However , there do exist , and not so uncommonly that they can be safely ignored , minimal semantic constituents which consist of more than one word . |
| 49 | They have their fighters , their arms suppliers , their innocent and not so innocent victims , their aid workers , their peacekeepers , their wounded , their mass graves . |
| 50 | It is , however , generally known that many trade unions choose the winter months for strikes because they can exert more pressure on employers than during other periods of the year and not so much because their members can claim tax rebates . |
| 51 | Today sees the debut of a number of new and not so new summer signings . |
| 52 | A really well-designed state pension scheme ( complete with lump sums ) and not so closely tied to employment history as any of the current schemes on offer , could probably do as well or better than occupational or personal pension provision for most women . |
| 53 | Can the distinction , that is , between names , conceived as purely referential simple symbols , and descriptions , enable us to gain a clearer insight into the concept of an ontological existent , i.e. an item existing " per se " , on the one hand , and the " constructed " superstructure of — convenient , and not so convenient — " fictions " , on the other ? |
| 54 | What are the things that you 'd like it if it was a bit different you 'd like it better if it was a bit more of this and not so much of something else in it okay . |
| 55 | What this article will try to outline are the basic essentials of that design process , so helping new ( and not so new ) users avoid some of the more gross errors . |
| 56 | Sometimes my tears are so hot they feel as if they 've been baking inside me , sometimes they feel bigger and wetter , sometimes rather lighter and not so salty . |
| 57 | Traditional Keynesian analysis required government to intervene in the economy to affect the total level of demand for goods and services , and to ensure that this level was high enough to be consistent with full employment and not so high that inflation was generated or a balance of payments crisis precipitated . |
| 58 | Because e even in those days er it , it was n't , there 'd be good training hospitals and not so good . |
| 59 | His old body , for all its girth , thick size and seeming weight of muscle , was less than fit , and not so warm either . |
| 60 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |