Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ride followed by Marian and Allen , although not so broad as the main Highway , was lighter because the trees that flanked it , being for the most part giant oaks , had quelled the subordinate vegetation and left airy vistas between their trunks . |
| 2 | ‘ Not so fantastic as you might think , ’ said Melissa . |
| 3 | not so tall as all that |
| 4 | All of which goes to show that masculine reason and logic are perhaps not so strong as you may have supposed . |
| 5 | One might think that clause 2 is insufficient : to believe that p is not so strong as to be certain that p , and to know one must be certain , not just believe . |
| 6 | If , in addition , I were accompanied by his fifteen soldiers I believed we should be too strong a party to invite attack , while not so strong as to alarm and provoke the tribes . |
| 7 | Maize pollen is not so resilient as its phytoliths , but New Mexico is drier than Panama , and pollen survives well there . |
| 8 | There was the contact with friendly adults , but not so close as to suggest to the children that their real parents were being supplanted — a common resentment in foster homes . |
| 9 | ‘ Children are not so serious as grown-ups and they love to laugh . ’ |
| 10 | The potential anarchy and irresponsible policy deviation of this situation — where the local bullies and barons of federal funding set the agenda is not so apparent as might seem however . |
| 11 | The need for them is not so apparent as for the other S's , however for long term survival they all play a vital role . |
| 12 | I know it 's a lot to ask , but I 'm not so black as I once was , you know . |
| 13 | Though not so revolutionary as to require years of testing and modification ( and run the risk of ultimate rejection as in the case of the Advanced Passenger Train ) . |
| 14 | A sense of the incongruity of things is not so unimportant as some people think . |
| 15 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 16 | The ‘ teacher ’ was one of the younger army wives — not so classy as Mrs Goreng but not bad . |
| 17 | She chose a slightly flared skirt of fawn flannel , plain white silk shirt with a demurely high neckline , a jacket in soft pastel-brown tweed with a standing collar , absolutely plain but very expensive Italian court shoes and a matching handbag that was small enough to be ladylike but not so small as to seem frivolous . |
| 18 | Most churches had larger windows inserted later to give greater light to the interior , but the Durham examples were not so small as usual . |
| 19 | His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation . |
| 20 | In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become . |
| 21 | That she has less strength at work and has more broken time owing to bad health and especially should she be married , domestic duties and that her output is not so great as that of a man . |
| 22 | However , one attempt to test the extent of misreporting ( Martin/Butcher , 1982 ) found that , in general , it was not so great as to be a cause for concern . |
| 23 | So the man is not so great as his art ? |
| 24 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 25 | Quite a lot of guesswork and estimation has to go into this , but the margins of error are not so great as to nullify the whole enterprise . |
| 26 | However , they 're not so stupid as to allow the adventurers to forge such a document right in front of them and get away with it . |
| 27 | In marginal cases , the court will have to be convinced that a substantially limiting disability exists but that , as a result , the individual is not so disabled as to be unable to perform the job in question . |
| 28 | The symbol of race , however , was not so unambiguous as the symbol of communism . |
| 29 | Since the blend of the wind-group is not so perfect as that of the strings , owing to the greater uniformity of tone of the latter , passages of which the texture can be resolved into its component patterns , each of which suits the individual character of some particular instrument or small group of instruments , ‘ come off ’ best on the wind . |
| 30 | All the things that bloody woman , Beth , had said were true , but his old mind was not so sharp as it once was . |