Example sentences of "perhaps [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Remarkably — or perhaps not so remarkably — Ungar 's mythic scotophobin had an amino-acid composition rather reminiscent of that of the endorphins and enkephalins . |
| 2 | He was tough and strong , disciplined and unselfish — he was the epitome of the goal-maker , whose efforts were recognised by his colleagues and opponents and by the discerning fan , but were perhaps not so well appreciated by less perceptive onlookers or pressmen . |
| 3 | Although China and Japan were the central areas for martial arts development over the last 2,000 years , many other countries in southeast Asia developed indigenous fighting systems , each of which , though perhaps not so well known , has produced great masters and thousand-years old traditions . |
| 4 | Perhaps not so much a way of life , but what Wittgenstein called a ‘ form of life ’ : small and privatised world-views binding on the group and consisting of accepted social practices , group norms and common languages ( by the latter I do not mean natural languages like French or English , but a nomenclature or group argot ) . |
| 5 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 6 | Perhaps not so lightly ! |
| 7 | Perhaps not so long , though . |
| 8 | Surprisingly you may find , perhaps not so very differently from yourselves . |
| 9 | It 's a question of authenticity — is this theme deeply-held , is it central to an understanding of the author 's character , or is it superficial gloss ; perhaps even so slightly phoney ? |
| 10 | As one , the six typewriters began clacking again , not perhaps quite so loudly as their operators strained to hear the rest of the conversation . |
| 11 | But not perhaps quite so often . |