Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 2 | tends to work better , I 'm not so sure portrait is the right thing to do . |
| 3 | She was not sure what she felt about the rapport which was springing up between her treasure and his now not so new maid . |
| 4 | Today sees the debut of a number of new and not so new summer signings . |
| 5 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |
| 6 | The implication is that the early Australians may have imported their basic mythology at some distant time or had experienced cultural intercourse with visitors from India in the not so remote past . |
| 7 | So it is not an impossibility that the Earth has indeed been flipped over , or at least tilted , during remote or even not so remote prehistory . |
| 8 | In the not so distant past , North Dalton 's church was well supported . |
| 9 | Nurses are no longer expected to sublimate their feelings behind starchy officiousness as has been the case in the not so distant past . |
| 10 | Nor are the blight years which affected potato crops in about one year in three , in the not so distant past . |
| 11 | Taking Laugharne , Llansteffan and Ferryside in context , that not so distant dream of typically quaint and charming Welsh seaside villages is complete . |
| 12 | In the not so distant future Wimpey 's decision to run its Middle East operation from Dubai under the directorship of Hugh Hayden will give a massive fillip to our ability to secure work in the region . |
| 13 | We also once had a not so young horse who took a while to understand the requirements of turn on the forehand . |
| 14 | ( Exercise 3.12.10 gives an example not so unlike Q in which no such m can be found . ) |
| 15 | Not so good luck for the Veterans A side in Division One of the Veterans ' Section , who went down 7–2 to Romford A. Derek Wood and Dave Binns took a point apiece for Clacton . |
| 16 | He was small , with wide , staring eyes and a way of raising and turning his head which suggested not so much caution as a kind of ceaseless , nervous tension . |
| 17 | not so much promise or instruction |
| 18 | We could sing nicer , too ; we do n't have to push our voices and rip them up , but it 's just not so much fun . |
| 19 | Not so much fun as those early days perhaps , but still a lot of excitement , and surely now we can call ourselves ‘ horologists ’ . |
| 20 | There 's not so much space . |
| 21 | I like it better with not so much ginger I think . |
| 22 | There is not so much variation at the front end of the flowering season as there is in autumn and winter , when some varieties and types show a marked reluctance to end their activities . |
| 23 | The seats , upholstered in dark red leather , held you high above the surface of the road and shed a certain dignity on your journey ; you did not so much travel as process . |
| 24 | This positivist and functionalist adaptation of the Mannheimian legacy did not so much stand Mannheim 's programme on its head as turn it inside out . |
| 25 | For the young person who finds reading difficult , Well done , Secret Seven is not so much escape as very hard work . |
| 26 | However , the main point does not so much concern the question of whether seasonal usage would be constant or not , or whether costs are rising or falling or staying constant , but that the cash payments method does not record the cost of carrying out the activities for the year . |
| 27 | The facilities available for television training differs from school to school ; filming and television work is expensive to organise , and really there is not so much opportunity as one would like to see for students to gain experience in these vital areas . |
| 28 | The students find that the basic sciences ‘ make sense ’ when they come to revise them in the light of some clinical experience — as one student stated recently : ‘ It 's not so much revision as vision . ’ |
| 29 | The problem is that the Labour party dodges all the important European issues because its conversion to the EC is not so much skin deep as ruled purely by expediency . |
| 30 | Campese is not so much dragon as dinosaur in a world of rugby that has been usurped by believers in forward power , physical prowess and the art of containment . |