Example sentences of "so [adj] nor so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , the mortgage market today is neither so generous nor so vague . |
| 2 | Julian felt no pity , only a detached curiosity and wonder ; for he was not quite as she had imagined him , neither so malevolent nor so formidable . |
| 3 | The ‘ implications ’ of literacy are not so obvious nor so easily elicited or described as Goody suggests . |
| 4 | In these , convergence to the competitive equilibrium is neither so swift nor so automatic ; for example , bubbles and crashes are observed ( see the chapter by Sunder in Kagel and Roth ( 1992 ) ) . |
| 5 | There were weaknesses — batteries were neither so good nor so light as they are today and in any case this was the first step . |
| 6 | Most of the game is mental — being able to keep your head clear and retain a certain outlook on life should mean that bad times are neither so frequent nor so lengthy as they would be if you start examining your technique or doubting your ability . |
| 7 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 8 | A mass of evidence follows , most of it from sound medical sources , that the medical profession has become hopelessly hooked on prescription drugs ; that the drugs are neither so effective nor so safe as our doctors would have us believe ; and that the public and the profession is being remorselessly taken for a ride by the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 9 | The rally I went to in Leicester in 1987 was neither so gross nor so damaging , but as a reasonably sympathetic onlooker , I was irritated by the frantic urgency and the artificial and inflated mood of tension , good for nobody 's judgment . |
| 10 | In his Golden Bough Sir James Frazer had difficulty in making up his mind between the two rival theories of the fire-cults and fire-festivals which are found intimately connected with the agricultural year throughout those parts of the world where the sun is neither so bright nor so constant as in the cloudless skies of Egypt . |