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Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Not so blatant now , but it meant the same .
2	Not so shallow now .
3	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 .
4	I thought I could make it on my own here , but I 'm not so certain now .
5	‘ 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 .
6	But I 'm not so sure now if it 's possible . ’
7	I 'm not so sure now .
8	At the time I did n't think he suspected , I 'm not so sure now .
9	‘ I did want to talk about it but I 'm not so sure now .
10	The flowers are not so profuse then , and the leaves tend to cover them , but it 's still an extra treat . ’
11	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 .
12	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 .
13	His old body , for all its girth , thick size and seeming weight of muscle , was less than fit , and not so warm either .
14	It was not so warm today , so Edith had stopped eyeing the bathing machines wistfully and wondering if she dared .
15	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 .
16	Not so inaccurate either .
17	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 ?
18	The neighbours will say he 's a nice young man , well , not so young really .
19	United not so good away but you never know …
20	‘ They 're a good attacking side but not so good defensively .
21	‘ Then we will take the boy 's speech and writing which is so good and subject it to careful analysis and if we teach the other boys whose writing and speech is not so good how to subject what they say and write to this kind of analysis they will realise how badly they speak and write and will promptly set about trying to improve the way they speak and write … . ’
22	Pet Shop Boys : fine records , but not so good literally
23	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
24	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 .
25	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 .
26	But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly .
27	But it 's not so much nowadays though .
28	Mr Sims , if that was his real name , dressed not so much snappily as very cleanly .
29	Socially mobile within the middle class we were going not so much up but sideways , heading towards sub-cultures , which as yet did not exist , and which we could envisage only hazily .
30	Down the bottom there in , number page twenty six it speaks about another modest man who became a role model for me who 's name 's John now a member of the governing body of Jehovah Witnesses and he 's been quoted over the years as saying it 's not so much where you serve , but who you serve that is truly important , can you see that ?