Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is actually meant is that the world is no longer so clearly divided as it was in the 1950s and 1960s into two armed camps of allies , with China , after 1960 , causing something of a schism in the Russian camp . |
| 2 | The effluent is already so highly diluted as not to be dangerous , and the resulting near-pure water will be used in ICI cooling towers . |
| 3 | They 're just so well made and so rugged — they 're workhorses . |
| 4 | A chemical breakdown can be achieved by the addition of any readily available nitrogen source such as sulphate of ammonia , or Nitro-chalk , but these soluble salts can inhibit bacterial action and the end-product is not so well balanced and does not produce such good results . |
| 5 | The men 's feelings were not so well defined and they were not to be diverted from their search for tea . |
| 6 | They 're not so well behaved as they were formerly . |
| 7 | Once the product hits the real world it has to cope with users who are not so well behaved or gentle — hence the totally new crop of errors . |
| 8 | That Convention is not so narrowly drawn and explicitly provides for dispositive treaties and boundary regimes . |
| 9 | But the many complex descriptions of the real social practice of literate and oral modes that are now becoming available suggest that literacy and orality are not so vastly differentiated as these writers claim . |
| 10 | Both of these are major considerations in comparing deaf and hearing recall ; unfortunately they are not so easily realised when stimulus material is non-verbal . |
| 11 | ‘ Because they 're not so easily roused or so — volatile as you are , darling . ’ |
| 12 | Already the two short-nose versions in the fleet are earmarked for disposal , probably as spares , because they are not so easily loaded and therefore less saleable . |
| 13 | But it is not so generally known and acknowledged that some of them in their day held high positions in the scientific world , nor has sufficient commendation been bestowed upon the whole body for their unselfish zeal in the promotion and encouragement of the study of Natural History , and especially Botany , as an essential element of medical education . |
| 14 | The priorities are assessed on the basis of evidence and unfortunately evidence about people is not so readily quantified as evidence about financial and physical resources . |
| 15 | The senator had just told me how difficult it was to extract any sense from his son , yet apparently Rickie was not so far gone as the senator had suggested . |
| 16 | It is not so commonly remembered that for him too it was the South African experience of the Boer War and its aftermath from which he emerged ‘ unionist ’ in the Imperial context . |
| 17 | As a spin-off of the Channel 4 series of the same name , this book is not so much written as compiled . |
| 18 | She was not so much spoilt as totally unaware . |
| 19 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 20 | This crisis was not so much averted as won by the progressives , but only after Pope Paul had taken a hand and , on the issues that Suenens had wished to put to the vote , the progressives won a clear majority on 30 October . |
| 21 | The whole matter was not so much solved as channelled in another direction by the sudden love match between Mary and her first cousin Henry , Lord Darnley , whom she described as the ‘ properest and best proportioned long man ’ she had ever seen . |
| 22 | No — this was still the interior of the Drum , its walls stained with smoke , its floor a compost of old rushes and nameless beetles , its sour beer not so much purchased as merely hired for a while . |
| 23 | From all these activities women were not so much excluded as absent by definition . |
| 24 | She was free of Ferdinando , towards whom her feelings had not so much changed as vanished , and of Mrs Browning who still troubled her so . |
| 25 | To simply state that the fathers or biblical authors believed something does not address the question as to whether they were right , or whether our picture of the world has not so much changed as to make theirs fantastic . |
| 26 | C1 was to be a two-year course for 16-plus school-leavers with suitable qualifications , leading to a certificate or diploma comparable in status to an OND , while C2 would normally be of two years ' duration and would be for students not so highly qualified or well-motivated as those taking C1 courses . |
| 27 | But the treatment of the rest of the face is more complex , subtler and more empirical ; it is no longer divided into a few clearly defined sections , and eyes and mouth are not so precisely stylized and deliberately emphasized as they had been before . |
| 28 | It becomes clear , too — especially when studying youth subcultures since rock 'n' roll — that the spheres of work and leisure are not always so closely intertwined as Adorno suggests , the latter simply duplicating the reified forms of consciousness which may be characteristic of the former . |
| 29 | Never was the enormous authority of this machine for living in ever so well expressed as in this scene of picturesque desolation . |
| 30 | Typically there is a pair of ganglia in each segment of the body , but the members of a pair are usually so closely united that they appear as a single ganglion , the commissure being no longer evident externally . |