Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] so [adj] [subord] " 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 | Although not so spectacular as his famous aqueduct at Pont Cysyllte ( q.v . ) , |
| 3 | Overall , the neck has a slightly chunky feel , although not so big as to be restrictive for those who play with a more classical style . |
| 4 | The 15th was the longest hole at 580 yards , although not so formidable as the 8th where ‘ fences are utilised as hazards , and there are several trees stumps ’ . |
| 5 | Forward of the deckhouse are four more cabins , two on each side of a passageway wide enough to allow a sailbag to be dragged through but not so wide as to be dangerous at sea . |
| 6 | He felt humiliated — apart from everything else , the soppiness of being a shop assistant in a family of miners brought out a terrible blush for his masculinity : absurd , you might think , but not so absurd if that was your world . |
| 7 | She is young but not so young as Chela , who says she is 18 but looks 16 at the most . |
| 8 | Her name was Gail Danski , a prim-looking chick , but not so prim when you got her into a dark corner , as he had once discovered when taking her home after a school dance . |
| 9 | It is easy to be successful when the world is booming , but not so easy when things tighten up . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy . |
| 13 | So you must be relaxed to enable you to groove , but not so relaxed as to be too loose . |
| 14 | The southern aspect is dominated by Pegasus , which is large but not so bright as might be thought from its aspect on the maps . |
| 15 | The high regard with which the instructor force was held was best summed up by the comment that , ‘ Instructors are good professionals but not so sophisticated as to bemuse the trainees ’ . |
| 16 | European race feldeggii looks smaller and slenderer than Peregrine and differs also in its browner ( but not so brown as the Saker ) upperparts , pinkish underparts , rufous or buff crown and nape and much narrower moustachial stripe ; also has longer tail and blunter wings . |
| 17 | Make the process as brief as possible , but not so brief as not to be able to fulfil the sales objective of obtaining an order , or of opening the way for further negotiations . |
| 18 | Both defecting ( refusing to pull ticks off ) is pretty bad , but not so bad as putting effort into pulling another 's ticks off and still ending up infested with ticks oneself . |
| 19 | The reason for this might be that it feels more possible to grieve the death of someone or something that is perhaps significant , but not so important as the death of the spouse . |
| 20 | These changes themselves reflected the changing role of women and the consumer approach to marriage : ‘ If your partner does not satisfy get another ’ ; ‘ Shop around until you find what you want ’ ; ‘ Children are of course important , but not so important as sexual compatibility and personal fulfilment ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | While not so attractive as the male it still shows the red stripes down the side and a hint of the red spots in the caudal peduncle . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise , though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience . |
| 25 | Such neutrons need not themselves be particularly energetic , but in a matter of minutes a free neutron will decay into an energetic proton and electron , though not so energetic as to readily escape from the magnetosphere . |