Example sentences of "not [adv] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Noverre did not specifically name them he described these dancers ' particular characteristics as having similar physiques and technical expertise as the danseurs classiques but they were not always so well-proportioned and usually possessed a natural sense of comedy . |
| 2 | Below are the linked toy basins of the old fishing port , so small they are almost lost in the rocks , and a reminder that Biarritz was not always so big and so prosperous as it is now . |
| 3 | They 're not really so complicated as perhaps they might look in the first place . |
| 4 | In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty . |
| 5 | But in the period covered by this book society was not quite so hierarchical as before or after ; nor did a man 's place in the sun depend on the number and dignity of his ancestors . |
| 6 | Czechoslovakia is better off than the other East European nations and has committed 2 per cent of its investment to environmental projects , but there once again are to be found the same dreary environmental statistics of rivers poisoned , sewage untreated , sulphur dioxide deposited and trees dying , even if the figures are not quite so bad as elsewhere . |