Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last decade or so of his reign , approximately 100 mints functioned ( even if not all did so continuously ) : for the volume of the coinage they produced , only a " ball-park estimate " can be given — perhaps tens of millions of coins — but the quality of the coins has recently been very precisely determined : whereas before 864 many coins were debased by up to 50 per cent , after 864 a silver-content of well over 90 per cent was secured across the board . |
| 2 | Their analytical style did not perhaps serve so well in Brahms 's ethereal second Sextet , passion recalled in tranquillity , with its Agathe motif , tribute to the composer 's one-time fiancee . |
| 3 | And then he thought it did not perhaps matter so greatly . |
| 4 | Until recently they were joint stewards of the Royal British Legion in Swindon , into which they 'd poured four and a half thousand pounds of their own money , and just months ago received a letter from the board telling them not so work so hard . |
| 5 | Of course , things did not always go so smoothly . |
| 6 | Bream do not always roll so smoothly though . |
| 7 | It is also useful to note that , in general , a molecule has one bond stretching mode per bond , although in systems with rings or cages the stretching motions are not always described so simply . |
| 8 | It does not really matter so long as we accept both points of view . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's sounding bad , ’ Private Charlie Weller spoke of the distant gun-fire , which did not really sound so very awful yet , but Weller was feeling a flicker of nervousness and wanted the relief of conversation . |
| 10 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |
| 11 | The fact that the lane runs so wide and straight also tells us that when it came into existence the open arable fields of Barton and Wootton did not yet extend so far . |
| 12 | Other composers did not yet differentiate so sharply between secular and sacred idioms ; even Palestrina introduced madrigalian elements — with beautiful effect — in his settings from the Song of Songs , while Victoria toward the end of his life , in 1600 , broke into a much more surprisingly secular vein in a Missa pro victoria with organ , modelled on Janequin 's ‘ La guerre ’ . |
| 13 | Particular components of the atmosphere may act as catalysts ; speeding-up chemical reactions that would not otherwise occur so rapidly . |
| 14 | As soon as you receive replies to requisitions , you should be in a position to prepare a report on title for any mortgagee for whom you act , as is commonly required by any but a private mortgagee ; you ca n't usually do so before , because until you have had satisfactory replies you ca n't certify that the title is good . |
| 15 | But then she did n't usually sleep so soundly out of doors , and she put her reactions down to recent stress . |
| 16 | It does n't always go so smoothly . |
| 17 | I could n't always see so far ahead by moonlight and needed to consult the compass more often . |
| 18 | It was also said in court she did n't habitually drink so heavily , but she and her friends were regular social drinkers . |
| 19 | Fortunately the coughing did n't really matter so far as Tinkerbell was concerned … the light is supposed to flash erratically … but the noise was rather off-putting . |
| 20 | ‘ I ai n't never travelled so fast . |