Example sentences of "[be] [adv] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I 'm not , I do n't think I am gon na come down cos I 've been down so long anyway |
| 2 | Watching on TV and taking part are not so much mutually exclusive as part of a balanced human cycle of passive and active involvement . |
| 3 | In contrast , the proposals for indicative drug budgets are not so much wrongly conceived as incomplete . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | The flowers are not so profuse then , and the leaves tend to cover them , but it 's still an extra treat . ’ |
| 6 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
| 7 | Ant species that are not so aggressive avidly remove insect eggs from foliage and generally ‘ spring-clean ’ the host . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Oh well you 're not so bad then are you ? |
| 10 | They 're ever so dear now ! |
| 11 | We are both so happy here . |
| 12 | But I 'm not so sure now if it 's possible . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm not so sure now . |
| 14 | At the time I did n't think he suspected , I 'm not so sure now . |
| 15 | ‘ I did want to talk about it but I 'm not so sure now . |
| 16 | I thought I could make it on my own here , but I 'm not so certain now . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not so desperate now . |
| 18 | I 'm not so bad now . |
| 19 | why have you got to be home so early then ? |
| 20 | Nights when ops were on were not so hectic now that the boys did not have the long runs to Berlin and Nuremburg , just specific targets in France and western Germany . |
| 21 | He smiled sadly , but his eyes were not so empty now . |
| 22 | They were ever so grand there . |
| 23 | I felt sure that I went there but I do n't think , I do n't know what happened but I do n't think they were ever so successful really . |
| 24 | Except , of course , that the lovable moptops were n't so lovable anymore . |
| 25 | Mind the prices were n't so bad either for four days , four hundred and odd |
| 26 | She wished she were n't so naïve as far as men were concerned . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
| 29 | Her disadvantages are : I. That she has less technical skill than a man and is not so useful all round . |
| 30 | The section on the chemistry of gasication is not so definitive partly because the temperature gradient , which varies according to fuel and gasifier design , affects both the position of chemical equilibria and the relative rates of different reactions within the gasifier but also because few experimental results are available for interpretation . |