Example sentences of "[noun] [not/n't] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an interview not so long ago . |
| 2 | ‘ While on the face of it seems a very simple matter to decide on , I am reminded of the complexities not so very long ago surrounding the understanding of so-called ‘ brain-death ’ . |
| 3 | Hyperion 's exclusive signing , Nikolai Demidenko , has recorded Medtner 's Second and Third Concertos , de Waal ( remember the exciting Godowsky CD on ) has Hiller and Henselt Concertos in the bag , and Christopher Coombs with his new partner Ian Munroe ( a Leeds Festival winner not so long ago ) have Mendelssohn 's neglected and marvellous 2 x 2 Piano Concertos planned . |
| 4 | In all cases not so far defined the pixel was left at its previous value . |
| 5 | Here in Brighton not so long ago , she and members of her Cabinet experienced at first hand all the skills , courage and dedication of my colleagues . |
| 6 | Etroplus suratensis known as the Green Chromide is a species of cichlid not so commonly kept in the hobby . |
| 7 | At a conference in San Francisco not so long ago , I encountered some people who want to deal with all these problems by contraception . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Was nt he tipped for England not so long ago ? |
| 10 | Yeah , he made a return not so long ago . |
| 11 | Remember those heady days not so long ago when 800 journalists packed into the ballroom at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas to see King and Tyson before the disgraced champion beat up Razor Ruddock for the second time ? |
| 12 | Alec Smith told vividly of the change he has found — from the days not so long ago when he was a rebel against all organised society , and cherishing hate against certain specific people . |
| 13 | Twenty-five minutes later , as he climbed the steps of St Martin's-in-the-Field , he found himself offering up a little prayer , its sentiments not so very different from those of the carols this congregation would presently be singing . |
| 14 | ‘ We played them at their place not so long ago and we drew 1-1 in a good , entertaining game so we 're looking forward to getting them back here . ’ |
| 15 | Joel is n't a Catholic , as you know , but he 's told me that he believes there 's a Providence not so far away from us , really just above our heads if we could see it , that wants things to be the way they 're eventually going . |
| 16 | ‘ I think we must agree that Keble was not at his most inspired when he wrote the hymn which we sang at Candlemas not so long ago — beginning , if I remember rightly , |
| 17 | Mark Hudson Out of the strong came forth the sweetness Not so much an installation as a duration piece created with treacle and sugar cubes . |
| 18 | When they had problems not so long ago it was taking a month . |
| 19 | We must get to the cause of the mutinies that have occurred , especially the mutiny at Strangeways , which was probably the most recent , and the savage mutiny at Gartree in my constituency not so long ago . |
| 20 | In the streets , vehicles clattered along on tyreless wheels , with the day not so far of– when even at the front the airforce would be forced to encase plane wheels in wooden clogs when being wheeled from the hangar , just to save precious rubber . |
| 21 | There is here a choice of readings which is in some ways not so very different from the sort of choice available in |
| 22 | No , I , it 's an enormous sum I mean I do n't think anybody in the West is spending er as much as ten percent on armaments and er I heard a on television not so long ago saying that in eighty percent of their industry is on armaments . |
| 23 | I recall a commitment not so long ago to reduce the number or prisoners , yet the Home Secretary told us that there was an unexpected increase of 3,000 in the prison population . |
| 24 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 25 | Rosemary Sutcliff ( 1973 , p.308 ) has stressed that ‘ history is people — and people not so very unlike ourselves ’ . |
| 26 | No — this was still the interior of the Drum , its walls stained with smoke , its floor a compost of old rushes and nameless beetles , its sour beer not so much purchased as merely hired for a while . |
| 27 | For example , we went to the thrift store not so long ago and picked up two pairs of flared pants . |
| 28 | God not so much the Prime Mover we can do without him — but the God who understands what 's going on . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And this man went to another church not so very far away so we knew what happened and certainly we were very glad we accepted our doctor 's opinion . |