Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] so [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pete had seen a fair number of valley mornings , although not so many had been as early as this . |
| 2 | Moreover , recent surveys have suggested that not so many members of these societies are ‘ literate ’ by the standards expected than had previously been assumed : in the UK it is now held that over one million people have an acquaintance with literacy that is insufficient for the demands made on them by this kind of society ( DES , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | Ca n't we collate our knowledge so that not so many tests are having to be done on all these animals ? |
| 4 | It must have done , Leith realised , for Rosemary was still taking the greatest pains that not so much as a whiff of the fact that she might care for someone else got out . |
| 5 | After all he 's put the money in to pay pensions and the beneficiaries ought to have a strong hand in saying how that money is used , so we see half the trustees coming from the employer , the other half from the members of the pension fund , and we 've got a pension fund with the very heavy weighting of er pensioners and not so many employees and we would like to see the remaining seats er half the trustees elected , partly from the current employees , partly from the deferred pensioners and partly from the pensioners and reflecting in a broad way the numbers in each of those categories . |
| 6 | It is hoped that those areas who are large in numbers will raise between three and four hundred pounds each and send this to the Treasurer before Christmas ; those areas who have fewer teachers and not so many classes are asked to raise £100 each . |
| 7 | We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going |
| 8 | It sounds to me as if there are too many people that want to get into Sussex in English , and not so many that wanting to get Chemistry . |
| 9 | Later still again , she was doing her A's , there was Daddy talking to them over the shepherd 's pie about Keir Hardie , and her saying , ‘ Oh gosh I see , yes — ! ’ and Mummy laughing , ‘ Can we all eat and not so much learned talk . |
| 10 | Therefore considerations of safety relate mainly to operational capability to handle chemicals safely and not so much to the characteristics of the product . |
| 11 | And not so much of the old stick . |
| 12 | It is , however , generally known that many trade unions choose the winter months for strikes because they can exert more pressure on employers than during other periods of the year and not so much because their members can claim tax rebates . |
| 13 | What are the things that you 'd like it if it was a bit different you 'd like it better if it was a bit more of this and not so much of something else in it okay . |
| 14 | And not so much about the fact of them , as the reasons behind the fact ? ’ |
| 15 | I think there is a case , especially , and not so much with the letters because there is a minimal amount of , of secretarial work , but with something like that I think you would really do with somebody who 's just there basically to type and |
| 16 | We dash abroad at least twice a year ( we dashed over to California last November ) and we dash down South to my daughter 's in Hampshire umpteen times a year and we dash seemingly everywhere in the wake of our grandchildren when on school holidays or visiting but I ( if not so much Bett ) also spend a heck of a lot of time just watching ( I prefer to call it scientifically observing ) the world around me and contemplating . |
| 17 | It 's proving very difficult raising money for the sea wall because everybody likes to contribute towards buying something new but not so many like to repair something you have already got . |
| 18 | ‘ You have a lot of Asians and Caribbeans working in the foundry , but not so many in the other part , ’ Robyn observed , when they were back in the peaceful calm and comparative luxury of Wilcox 's office . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , there are a few , ’ he said , ‘ but not so many in this area . |
| 20 | But not so many cats . |
| 21 | Those women again but not so many . |
| 22 | ‘ Brussels has more galleries , but not so many interesting ones as Antwerp , ’ says Wendolien van Oldenborgh , a local artist . |
| 23 | Emotions towards the skipper must be mixed : his runs are obviously needed , but not so many that he presents an unanswerable case for a Test recall . |
| 24 | Erm , we hear a lot about the holocaust that happened to the Jews in the second world war but not so many people know a lot about the holocaust that has happened to women over centuries and centuries where millions of women were burnt as witches , but er , just because they were women ! |
| 25 | We have had losses , but not so many as some . |
| 26 | It is important that you do your chosen exercise at a pace that makes you slightly breathless and increases your heart rate , but not so much that you can not maintain the exercise for at least twenty or thirty minutes . |
| 27 | ‘ I know he 's their trump card and the big draw , but not so much in one-day cricket , and I feel they overloaded him , ’ Mr Woolmer said . |
| 28 | He wanted to find her , certainly , but not so much because of his job as a reporter , rather because of what he might learn from her . |
| 29 | As you pick up the flesh , squeeze it and apply as much pressure as you can tolerate , but not so much that you bruise the area . |
| 30 | From that time onwards there was reason still , but not so much reason , to distinguish between trusts and legacies . |