Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] so [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases they are provided : making up a two per cent solution means two per cent not one per cent or ten , giving ten millilitres of medication is a precise measure , but it is not always so easy to define standards . |
| 2 | On the whole , during what Duiker has called ‘ the Stalinist years ’ , this was something that was accepted by the Vietnamese Communist Party but one can imagine that it was not always so easy to accept the advice which came to them from their French comrades . |
| 3 | But it was not now so easy to get rid of Anselm : he refused either to comply with Henry 's demand or leave the country , and for the next few weeks he lived quietly on his manors . |
| 4 | It was all right walking in the mountains but not quite so safe-looking to drive . |
| 5 | But it is coming , and certainly some of the medium-sized shops , perhaps with a couple of two or three outlets but under the same management , where it 's not quite so easy to see when you 're running out of baked beans , are already beginning to take advantage of some of these retailing computers . |
| 6 | The fact that people using credit cards were actually even more likely to say this about them suggests that many credit card users might well be happier if they were not quite so easy to use . |
| 7 | The people might be made to kneel , but the elements were not quite so easy to muzzle . |
| 8 | This can be much quicker , but although the control is there it is not quite so intuitive to use . |
| 9 | It is not quite so important to duplicate the reel , but it is still wise , if only for the fact that your spare spools are interchangeable on both reels . |
| 10 | underneath which are n't really so easy to see |
| 11 | It is n't quite so quick to use as the knobs of a panel-mounted set as there is no way of rotating the full MHz figures separately from the decimals ( it takes my fingers well over 150 twiddles to get from 118,00 to 136.975 Mhz ) , but there is a twenty-frequency memory bank , and you can cycle quickly through the stored frequencies . |