Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remarkably — or perhaps not so remarkably — Ungar 's mythic scotophobin had an amino-acid composition rather reminiscent of that of the endorphins and enkephalins . |
| 2 | He was tough and strong , disciplined and unselfish — he was the epitome of the goal-maker , whose efforts were recognised by his colleagues and opponents and by the discerning fan , but were perhaps not so well appreciated by less perceptive onlookers or pressmen . |
| 3 | Although China and Japan were the central areas for martial arts development over the last 2,000 years , many other countries in southeast Asia developed indigenous fighting systems , each of which , though perhaps not so well known , has produced great masters and thousand-years old traditions . |
| 4 | Perhaps not so much a way of life , but what Wittgenstein called a ‘ form of life ’ : small and privatised world-views binding on the group and consisting of accepted social practices , group norms and common languages ( by the latter I do not mean natural languages like French or English , but a nomenclature or group argot ) . |
| 5 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 6 | Perhaps not so lightly ! |
| 7 | Perhaps not so long , though . |
| 8 | Surprisingly you may find , perhaps not so very differently from yourselves . |
| 9 | Glassford had declared his intention of supporting Lord Dundas 's interest in the election , but when he was visited by Alexander Bruce of Kennet , who was managing the election for Lord Dundas , ‘ we really found all not so right ’ . |
| 10 | And in terms of vehicle operating costs savings , if I just go back to the top of that page , the inner routes again perform well not not so not so well or better ? |
| 11 | Er in actual fa in actual fact not so not so well in that er there are there are negative benefits er as you 'll see in some and less negative on the blue route . |
| 12 | Calls ‘ teu ’ , ‘ teeoo ’ , ‘ chik ’ , etc. not so loud as other shanks , also a liquid twittering trill . |
| 13 | I guess he figured the malais would be less alert in the torpor of the mid-afternoon , while darkness was still not so far away that it could n't cloak his escape . |
| 14 | Second mortgage Usually not so much a loan in itself as using the value of a home ( over and above the value of any company loan ) , usually large and now mainly for home improvements , for up to , say , seven years ; with fixed monthly repayments . |
| 15 | However , quite apart from the fact that such a statement does not accommodate cases of emergency — cases where the defendant 's unlawful conduct could , unless restrained , cause serious and irreparable harm before trial , as for example where the defendant threatens to cut down a tree in breach of a tree preservation order — in other cases it is usually not so much the flagrancy of the breach as the fact that the defendant intends to persist in offending unless restrained by an injunction , which justifies the invocation of that form of relief : see City of London Corporation v. Bovis Construction Ltd . |
| 16 | They 're probably not so deep you see as the other ones that side |
| 17 | The result is often not so much an individual guitar , but rather an amalgam of bits nicked from here and bobs lifted from there . |
| 18 | ‘ I think Mr Fairham means that we all share a concern over the incident that happened here not so long ago , ’ Clinton said . |
| 19 | Is , is this building here not so long ago ? |
| 20 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 21 | This is surely not so much a knock-out punch , more of a gentle slap on the wrist . |
| 22 | Soon afterwards he left the Wang ( though Zervos tried to tempt him to stay by offering him an extra , wait for it , thirty-five cents an hour ! ) and started working days at the ice-cream parlour on Main Street which belonged , coincidentally , to Celia 's uncle ( or maybe not so coincidentally since , in a town like Adam 's Creek , population 2,200 , most people ended up being related sooner or later ) . |
| 23 | Sites adjacent too , overlooks the medical centre , and this , well , this one maybe not so now , anticipated age range and type of resident differs from original concept . |
| 24 | Maybe not so much lost a never cultivated . |
| 25 | 5 Now think about what actually happens as your group starts its life on the island sometimes things go well ; sometimes not so well . |
| 26 | While de Gaulle quietly and sometimes not so quietly chipped away at a NATO defence policy integrated under American leadership , he also sought to assert French autonomy and leadership in Europe . |
| 27 | It is then not so much the distinction between names and descriptions as the distinction between the function of naming and the function of describing that gives some indication as to what is involved in positing something as an ontological existent . |
| 28 | I had not meant to tell anyone — or at least not so soon . |
| 29 | Er , that that is slightly different in that an outline planning consent er is not is is precisely what it says , it is not a detail of the type of dwelling that is going on it , but it , you 're quite correct in that the planning precedent has been put , that that site is adequate for two dwellings , and and I do n't think anybodies disputing that , er at least not so far . |
| 30 | Hungarians are no longer afraid , at least not so long as reformers run Russia , that Soviet tanks will snuff out their democratic experiment , as they did in 1956 . |