Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [adj] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 2 | In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become . |
| 3 | All the things that bloody woman , Beth , had said were true , but his old mind was not so sharp as it once was . |
| 4 | But this is not so impressive as it appears . |
| 5 | This is not so hypocritical as it sounds for Godwin hated violence and war . |
| 6 | This last is not so easy as it may seem , but can be highly illuminating . |
| 7 | In actuality this relationship between managers and workers is not so simple as it may first appear to be . |
| 8 | And that 's not so daft as it seems you know . |
| 9 | This was not so heartless as it might seem . |
| 10 | One of the main planks of the CCAUK 's argument is that the Annual Percentage rate is not so high as it looks , since though most transactions are contracted for ( say ) 26 weeks , in fact they end up being repaid — with no series problem — in about 30 or 33 weeks , with no penalty . |
| 11 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 12 | Debussy 's answer to a journalist who asked if he was familiar with heaven — ‘ yes , but I do n't natter about it with strangers ’ - is not so silly as it sounds . |
| 13 | I 'm getting so expert with my chopsticks now that I can almost eat my soup with them — actually , that 's not so silly as it sounds , as the soup often contains large lumps of meat and veg . |
| 14 | Finally , there have been changes over time in the rates of divorce and marriage , although the significance of these for patterns of kin relations may be not so obvious as it first appears . |
| 15 | With the soft detergents now in use , this trouble is not so bad as it was a few years ago , but appreciable quantities still get into some rivers , even though the bulk is removed in sewage-purification treatment . |
| 16 | Not so bad as it was then in those days . |
| 17 | ‘ Tucker again ; Exeter , 4 January : Come if you can but it 's not so bad as it seemed . ’ |
| 18 | In that case of Appleford ( Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 ) there was a mandamus brought , to restore him to his fellowship : it was returned , that by the statutes of the college , for misdemeanour they had a power to turn him out ; and that the Bishop of Winchester was visitor , and that he was turned out pro crimine enormi , and had appealed to the bishop , who confirmed the expulsion ; and the particular cause was not returned : I was of counsel for the college , and we omitted the cause in the return for that reason , because indeed it was not so true as it should have been . |
| 19 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
| 20 | But it is n't so bad as it sounds , really it is n't . |
| 21 | I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind . |