Example sentences of "[is] not so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the problem is not so simply solved . |
| 2 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 3 | Sussman and McNeilage ( 1975a ) argued that whereas receptive aspects of language are lateralised to the left hemisphere , production of language is not so clearly lateralised in stutterers as it is in normals . |
| 4 | The differentiation of accidents from other types is useful in the context of emergency planning and is not so clearly conveyed by other hazard typologies . |
| 5 | That Convention is not so narrowly drawn and explicitly provides for dispositive treaties and boundary regimes . |
| 6 | What is not so generally realised is that many deaths and serious illnesses also result from the poisonous substances produced by a range of other animals . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sometimes the final stage of the journey is made by local chartered coach which is not so well equipped , but we do make comfort stops for smokers and sometimes for meals , at the discretion of the crew , at all stages of the journey . |
| 10 | This structure is not so closely packed as the other two . |
| 11 | Much of our dream content is not so easily traced , but the incorporation of " day 's residues " into dreams is very well established . |
| 12 | As we have seen , the divide between individualism and holism is too deep for the inadequacy of one approach to provide an automatic vindication of the other ; and more important , holism is not so easily killed off . |
| 13 | But even many of these have some interesting hues , at least to our human sight , though just what other creatures perceive of their own or other species is not so easily understood . |
| 14 | But Izzat , with its centuries long history , its emotional pull towards India and Pakistan , is not so easily dealt with . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , a blue or milky cloudiness is not so easily corrected . |
| 16 | By contrast , the relative complexity of tasks involving the same mathematics set in different contexts or tasks involving a number of different mathematical ideas is not so easily established . |
| 17 | Democracies have freely elected governments as a matter of definition and elect a minority of women as a matter of fact ; but their possession of a rational-legal system is not so easily classified . |
| 18 | What is not so widely appreciated is that even after problems of vocabulary and fluency are overcome a more fundamental differentiation remains . |
| 19 | This species is very similar to O. simulans but differs in the following respects : it appears to reach a much larger size ; the spinelets of the disk are less elaborate and have fewer points to the crown ; the shape of the oral shield differs and is depressed in O. aculeata ; the adoral shields are more wing-like and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; the arm spines are less rugose particularly the proximal ventral spines ; and finally the ventral most arm spine is not so distinctly sabre shaped as in O. simulans . |
| 20 | His examples include [ 11 ] , which is not so obviously related to an apposition of phrases : If [ 11 ] is an example of apposition , then the assumption that cases of loose apposition are reductions of non-restrictive or appositive relative clauses can not be maintained . |
| 21 | The detective story with an interesting background is not so far removed from the classical original . |
| 22 | Only then does he discover that the system of which he is a hero is not so highly regarded by all its customers . |
| 23 | Particular industries are no longer overwhelmingly concentrated in particular regions , and the character of the regions is not so directly related to the industries predominant within them . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As a spin-off of the Channel 4 series of the same name , this book is not so much written as compiled . |
| 26 | If only one frame at a time is exposed , with a delay in between ( stop motion ) , movement is not so much speeded up as created artificially : this is the basic principle of animation in all its forms . |
| 27 | The adaptation of linguistic terms like mood and of rhetorical terms like ellipsis is not so much designed to construct rigid parallels either with language or with rhetoric , but rather is itself a rhetorical device for freeing narrative from any referential interpretation . |
| 28 | Our bondage to society is not so much established by conquest as by collusion … we are entrapped by our own social nature . |
| 29 | What is not so readily understood is that many of these people are paid extensively on commission . |
| 30 | 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 . |