Example sentences of "[is] not so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might think that clause 2 is insufficient : to believe that p is not so strong as to be certain that p , and to know one must be certain , not just believe . |
| 2 | GERMAN MEASLES is not so harmless as you think |
| 3 | GERMAN MEASLES is not so harmless as you think |
| 4 | The potential anarchy and irresponsible policy deviation of this situation — where the local bullies and barons of federal funding set the agenda is not so apparent as might seem however . |
| 5 | The need for them is not so apparent as for the other S's , however for long term survival they all play a vital role . |
| 6 | An understanding of it is not so essential as that of the working of precedent . |
| 7 | The USSR is not so monolithic as to be devoid of élite politics . |
| 8 | Pavo , the second of the Southern Birds , is not so distinctive as Grus , but it is not hard to find , because Alpha Centauri and Alpha Trianguli Australe show the way to its brightest star , Alpha , which is bluish-white and is of magnitude 1.9 . |
| 9 | It is come , I know not how , to be taken for granted , by many persons , that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is , now at length , discovered to be fictitious . |
| 10 | There is not so much as even a prima facie case for imagining that the ad hoc domestic forces available for the Latin music and the English devotional settings bore any close resemblance to the stereotyped and institutionalized vocal dispositions ( SAATB , succeeding SATB and SATTB ) supplied by the contemporary church choir ; these several bodies of music need to be addressed separately . |
| 11 | For large areas there is not so much as a pebble bed to make one stumble in the climb up the column . |
| 12 | That she has less strength at work and has more broken time owing to bad health and especially should she be married , domestic duties and that her output is not so great as that of a man . |
| 13 | So the man is not so great as his art ? |
| 14 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 15 | While its report is not so comprehensive as that of Readability Plus , it might be valued for a more succinct appraisal . |
| 16 | It is true that the actual distribution of property in society is far from equal ; but it is not so skewed as to give any individual a monopoly of economic power . |
| 17 | Although this is not so good as the quick sponge or madeira cake for cutting and shaping , it is ideal for the simpler shaped fantasy cakes and its advantage over the quick sponge is that it is lighter . |
| 18 | But this rule is not so simple as at first sight it looks , for it means , not that priority is gained by registration , but that it is lost through failure to register . |
| 19 | In actuality this relationship between managers and workers is not so simple as it may first appear to be . |
| 20 | This last is not so easy as it may seem , but can be highly illuminating . |
| 21 | I understand the hon. Gentleman 's frustration , but it is not so easy as Opposition Members keep asserting . |
| 22 | Since the blend of the wind-group is not so perfect as that of the strings , owing to the greater uniformity of tone of the latter , passages of which the texture can be resolved into its component patterns , each of which suits the individual character of some particular instrument or small group of instruments , ‘ come off ’ best on the wind . |
| 23 | That core of meaning is necessarily general and vague enough to make such variations possible , but it is not so vague as to permit any meaning whatsoever to be placed on the word . |
| 24 | This idea is not so far-fetched as may appear at first glance . |
| 25 | This is not so hypocritical as it sounds for Godwin hated violence and war . |
| 26 | But this is not so impressive as it appears . |
| 27 | But life in the Court of Appeal and , even more , in the House of Lords is not so strenuous as in the High Court ( or below ) , personal prestige and status are higher among the fewer , with a life peerage at the top . |
| 28 | The reference to specific information only , can be best explained by the need to ensure that the definition of inside information is not so wide as to include legitimate research undertaken by investment analysts . |
| 29 | In marginal cases , the court will have to be convinced that a substantially limiting disability exists but that , as a result , the individual is not so disabled as to be unable to perform the job in question . |
| 30 | The section provides the procedure whereby the holder of a licence ( other than an off-sale licence ) may obtain the consent of the licensing board to the reconstruction or alteration of the public or common part of the premises where the reconstruction or alteration is not so material as to be excluded by subs . |