Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got ta roll it out af , and you 've got ta leave it on so long like overnight , and it stinks . |
| 2 | No I 'm not , I do n't think I am gon na come down cos I 've been down so long anyway |
| 3 | This is a small town of some character , a historic strong point standing up above the Gave , in which there are competitions in summer to catch the surviving salmon , no longer so abundant here as in the good medieval days . |
| 4 | Oh I 'm looking forward to tonight so much now . |
| 5 | Not so blatant now , but it meant the same . |
| 6 | Not so shallow now . |
| 7 | It is not so curious then that blacks have manifested a predilection for sport and have achieved high orders of success in their chosen disciplines . |
| 8 | I thought I could make it on my own here , but I 'm not so certain now . |
| 9 | ‘ We believed the rumour on Tuesday that British Aerospace was building up a big shareholding but we are not so sure now , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 10 | But I 'm not so sure now if it 's possible . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm not so sure now . |
| 12 | At the time I did n't think he suspected , I 'm not so sure now . |
| 13 | ‘ I did want to talk about it but I 'm not so sure now . |
| 14 | The flowers are not so profuse then , and the leaves tend to cover them , but it 's still an extra treat . ’ |
| 15 | The second ( not so relevant today ) has , for reasons of sentiment or expediency , been to adopt arms similar to , but not technically identical with , a feudal protector or ally . |
| 16 | It 's er it 's not so necessary probably er as where at times I 've given talks in various parts of the country on on this area . |
| 17 | His old body , for all its girth , thick size and seeming weight of muscle , was less than fit , and not so warm either . |
| 18 | It was not so warm today , so Edith had stopped eyeing the bathing machines wistfully and wondering if she dared . |
| 19 | The reverse of the coin is internationalism , a feature , some might say , of twentieth-century art ; not so uncommon either in other periods , where art historians struggle heroically to identify differences between the art of one country and another . |
| 20 | Not so inaccurate either . |
| 21 | And when you 're not so young either it 's , makes it er more awkward still , although she 's , she 's erm , she 's fairly well int she ? |
| 22 | The neighbours will say he 's a nice young man , well , not so young really . |
| 23 | United not so good away but you never know … |
| 24 | ‘ They 're a good attacking side but not so good defensively . |
| 25 | Pet Shop Boys : fine records , but not so good literally |
| 26 | It would be nice it 's my dream any youngster 's dream to play professional football and in South Africa it 's not so good there |
| 27 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 28 | My main concern is , that I think that over the years , as people have lived longer and as they became retired , we 've tended to neglect them , not so much financially and in terms of their conditions , though I think there 's always arguments about that ; I think we 've actually neglected their role in the community . |
| 29 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
| 30 | But it 's not so much nowadays though . |