Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] not [be] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numbers of young women have told me that they look upon life in quite a different light now that they learn that nature has not been so cruel to them , as to give them but the choice of a married life , in which probably all the highest aims of life must be sacrificed , and the wife reduced to the level of a breeding animal , or a life of celibacy . |
| 2 | Unfortunately some of the rhetoric of this recent announcement has not been so enlightened , but has been couched in hard , aggressive language . |
| 3 | The overall shift has not been so much from agriculture to manufacturing but rather a steady rise in the service industries , and a fall in primary industries . |
| 4 | We 're a bit understocked anyway — business has n't been so good since the trouble started . ’ |
| 5 | 9.1.3 Alternatively to Condition 9.1.1 , the Seller shall be entitled at its absolute discretion to refund the price of the defective goods in the event that such price shall already have been paid by the Purchaser to the Seller , or , if such price has not been so paid , to relieve the Purchaser of all obligation to pay the same by the issue of a credit note in favour of the Purchaser in the amount of such price . |
| 6 | This early retirement pattern has not been so evident for women . |
| 7 | However , the government has not been so preoccupied with accountability procedures as appeared to be the case in the early 1980s . |
| 8 | ‘ But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ’ |
| 9 | Care has not been so tender for the eiderdown duck , which has perished in large numbers due to oil slicks in its Iceland habitat , as European demand for its fluffy down , mainly used in bedding , increases . |
| 10 | The relationship of women within the family and to waged work throughout the twentieth century has not been so clear cut . |
| 11 | It seems to me that anyone attracted to practising psychology or psychotherapy or psychiatry has not been so without some needs of their own . |