Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [adv] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In another area , for example in the interior regions of Italy , where land is in short supply and where production patterns are not so severely restricted by climate and latitude , a more diversified farming pattern may be possible .
2 Weak syllables with close back rounded vowels are not so commonly found .
3 The ‘ biogrammar ’ of evolutionary stable strategies and the acquired ‘ sociogrammar ’ of social rules and roles are not so distinctly separated ; they interlace functionally and epigenetically in ways that are not yet understood .
4 of c.1821–4 is almost as fine , though the plates are not so highly finished , with ‘ E.L . ’
5 But the Erinyes are not so easily bought off , for what seemed so cleanly available was too lucid , too crisply dialectical .
6 Most organisations are not so far advanced .
7 Hearts are not so easily broken .
8 THE MESSAGE from the Scottish Office is that farmers are not so hard hit , hard up or hard done by as they frequently claim .
9 ‘ CT ST N T MT , ’ will soon be exposed by crossword buffs as ‘ The cat sat on the mat , ’ but place names are not so easily guessed by context .
10 Treatments which would pass genetic changes to the children of patients are not so far permitted .
11 Unlike training , which has a NACAB staff presence in all area offices , the IPG serves from a distance and so its internal processes are not so widely known .
12 But homeotherms are not so well structured to accommodate chronic changes in temperature .
13 When it comes to television sets , Latin Americans are not so well endowed .
14 [ Yet ] give him [ the American ] all these advantages , and he will still be longing to cross the water , to get back to that old home of his fathers , so delightful in itself … the less wealthy , less cultivated , less fastidious class of Americans are not so much haunted by these longings …
15 Hands are not so easy come by for a slaver .
16 Our own children are now so far removed from danger , at least of the primal kind , and these Masai are so close to it , that you would expect them to be cowed and fearful .
17 In sharing a home with a stranger who shares no common standards of behaviour , compromises and allowances are not so easily made .
18 Others are not so well informed .
19 Where once price was all , now predators are not so well thought of .
20 their fannies are n't so neatly set in front
21 Microfibres are now so frequently used they no longer excite any comment : in a year or two they 'll be the norm .
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