Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so tall and powerfully built that she felt as though she might break if he so much as touched her . |
| 2 | And here we 've got a couple that happen to be olive trees , and I , I 'm not so sure that just the fact that they 're olive trees really is that important . |
| 3 | Overleaf Not so famous but also spectacular : Bryce Canyon in Utah . |
| 4 | ‘ I wish my sight were not so powerful and so cunning … . |
| 5 | My next trip was not so pleasant but nonetheless enlightening , It was with a scratch crew and an experienced navigator who , like myself , had returned to ops after a period in the training world , but also ( like myself ) utterly clueless about present day operations . |
| 6 | My conclusion of the strength of her faith is that her convictions are in fact not so deep-seated or so fundamental as to constitute an immutable decision by her as to her way of life — or her way of death . |
| 7 | While I am happy that our efforts to keep more heavy traffic off the roads should achieve front page prominence , I am not so keen that so much journalistic ‘ topspin ’ should have been applied in the process . |
| 8 | Taller , stronger , not so blonde but much more decisive than their mother , she still seemed perpetually astonished by life . |
| 9 | Of course the visual indicators are useful but not so personal or so reassuring ( or so charming ) , and you can not talk to them about delays and ‘ Are there free sandwiches and coffee ? ’ |
| 10 | In those days , children were not so sheltered as now from the pressures of adult life , and the exploitation of child prodigies for material gain was not frowned upon . |
| 11 | In case ( c ) the law is not so clear and frequently other factors are present out of which a consideration for the promise can be manufactured . |
| 12 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 13 | The effector processes become slower and less powerful but these effects are not so marked or so consistent . |
| 14 | It is worth mentioning that the final is not so theoretical as perhaps believed : 40 per cent of the marks are allocated in the practical paper . |
| 15 | Pupil leakage is n't about those puddles occasionally found under infant children it 's about losing children to neighbours — it 's not so wet but equally unpleasant . |
| 16 | The ‘ implications ’ of literacy are not so obvious nor so easily elicited or described as Goody suggests . |
| 17 | Leith was getting out of her short , not so sleek and well past its sell-by date Mini , when she suddenly remembered that Massingham 's top brass were moving in that day . |
| 18 | No doubt his model was better , and the Niobid Painter 's Peirithous is not so bad though still not a great success . |
| 19 | Barbs is n't so old or so smelly , but she reminds me of him . ’ |