Example sentences of "not so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so well known as the New World , it is a thoroughly enjoyable work . |
| 2 | Finally , another highly individualistic album : ‘ Metamorphosis ’ by the World Saxophone Quartet ( Elektra-Nonesuch ) ; not so well known in the UK as an ensemble , its members — David Murray ( tenor sax , bass clarinet ) , Oliver Lake ( alto , soprano saxophones and flute ) , Hamiet Bluiett ( baritone sax ) and Arthur Blythe ( alto sax ) — are however individually ( and , as you will find , jointly ) something rather special . |
| 3 | These proposals were initially welcomed by both Helmut Kohl , the West German Federal Chancellor , and his Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( although they were not so favourably received by the East German government ) , but on May 8 Kohl rejected them as " negotiation poker " . |
| 4 | The boy slept in a large front bedroom whose window , were it not so closely covered by an old woollen blanket , looked out over the once elegant front walkway with its crazy paving and stepped terraces . |
| 5 | This structure is not so closely packed as the other two . |
| 6 | Local education authorities in England , Wales and Scotland are subsidiaries of the wider local councils , but those in Northern Ireland are not so closely linked to the rest of local government . |
| 7 | Though not so easily seen from the east , the tops of some caravans are visible from the road climbing from Amroth Castle to Marros . |
| 8 | But the structures of inference involved are not so easily captured by the dualistic thinking spoken of earlier . |
| 9 | Successful business transactions hinge on the overcoming of cultural barriers to communication , with the consequent emergence of a localised negotiated order , not so clearly dominated by the host society and its culture . |
| 10 | However , it is arguable that representatives of subject areas not so conventionally identified with the notion of a school library ( e.g. art , science , and computer studies ) might have helped to break the stereotypical view of school libraries as the preserve of the English department and provided the team with some refreshingly different perspectives . |
| 11 | The second , and more positive , factor which may explain the fact that accountability for tragic death is not so readily attributed to the professionals concerns the status of old people as autonomous adults . |
| 12 | In July 1943 the Town and Country Planning ( Interim Development ) Bill received the Royal Assent , legislation which effectively extended planning control to the whole of the country not so far covered by a planning scheme . |
| 13 | In due course , when all available information on the releases of polonium-210 and other nuclides not so far incorporated in the analysis has been assimilated , the board will publish a revised assessment of the radiological implications of environmental releases from the Windscale fire . |
| 14 | Certainly their substance should be accessible to anyone not so far gone in the contemplation of astrology — a science , so it is widely held , on the cogent grounds that its practitioners use computers — homeopathy , aromatherapy , or telekinesis as to be beyond the reach of reason . |
| 15 | She was not so far gone in the sinful practice of dissimulation that she felt free to claim that she meant to ask them because she knew Betty would be pleased , and she could think of no other remotely credible reason for doing so . |
| 16 | To the people of his little island , two miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide , ‘ Isle of Muck ’ fetched a tailor from the mainland twice a year and a blacksmith from the Isle of Eigg ( Johnson has not so far reflected upon the name of the laird of Eigg ) . |
| 17 | The detective story with an interesting background is not so far removed from the classical original . |
| 18 | But to be fair to Green it was from his burning wish for people to admire the scenery , not from a desire to spoil it , that he made these suggestions , which certainly are not so far fetched in the 20th century as they must have been then . |
| 19 | Etroplus suratensis known as the Green Chromide is a species of cichlid not so commonly kept in the hobby . |
| 20 | Leonard was not so much brutalised by the experience , as anaesthetised : hence the recollection of only desire throughout his youth . |
| 21 | The exceptionally high absenteeism on Mondays and Fridays , which necessitated employing thirty per cent more workers than was economically justified , was not so much caused by the demon drink ; but because … etcetera , etcetera … . |
| 22 | The consequence of this is one key problem that the venture capital industry faces : not so much related to the price of loan capital , but to its availability and the conditions under which it is lent . |
| 23 | On the basis of this schema it can be argued that the high-water mark of class/party correlation in the 1960s , registered above , was not so much related to the current policies of the political parties , as to the ‘ delayed ’ effect of the social conditions of the interwar depression years and the substantial shifts within popular ideology and political alignment during and immediately after the second world war . |
| 24 | His examples include [ 11 ] , which is not so obviously related to an apposition of phrases : If [ 11 ] is an example of apposition , then the assumption that cases of loose apposition are reductions of non-restrictive or appositive relative clauses can not be maintained . |
| 25 | Particular industries are no longer overwhelmingly concentrated in particular regions , and the character of the regions is not so directly related to the industries predominant within them . |
| 26 | He considered : surely things were n't so utterly disorganised in the kitchens that the scullions no longer knew who was in charge of them , or where his office was ? |
| 27 | ‘ But somehow I get the impression that Rob is n't so deeply committed to the company as you are . |