Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [adj] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not so fantastic as you might think , ’ said Melissa . |
| 2 | All of which goes to show that masculine reason and logic are perhaps not so strong as you may have supposed . |
| 3 | I know it 's a lot to ask , but I 'm not so black as I once was , you know . |
| 4 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 5 | In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become . |
| 6 | All the things that bloody woman , Beth , had said were true , but his old mind was not so sharp as it once was . |
| 7 | Not so young as I had thought |
| 8 | " I " m not so young as I used to was " is wrong , except that when Somerset Maughan makes a Cockney landlady say it , it makes perfectly good sense . |
| 9 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 10 | Not so much as he thought he was . |
| 11 | But this is not so impressive as it appears . |
| 12 | These two extremes are not so contradictory as they might seem . |
| 13 | To backtrack a little , the case is perhaps not so monolithic as I have implied : for which we have to return to the detail of Callinicos ' ‘ No ’ to Lukács . |
| 14 | The farmhouses are not so many as they were forty years ago by three fourths … |
| 15 | So it 's not so unbelievable as you think . ’ |
| 16 | The French are not so polite as they were 15 years ago . |
| 17 | Except that the Brits here are not so straightforward as we are , and might hang Papa for giving Havvie what he so richly deserves . |
| 18 | This is not so hypocritical as it sounds for Godwin hated violence and war . |
| 19 | not so easy as you think getting jobs |
| 20 | This last is not so easy as it may seem , but can be highly illuminating . |
| 21 | In actuality this relationship between managers and workers is not so simple as it may first appear to be . |
| 22 | So , she thought , you are not so simple as you look . |
| 23 | And that 's not so daft as it seems you know . |
| 24 | GERMAN MEASLES is not so harmless as you think |
| 25 | GERMAN MEASLES is not so harmless as you think |
| 26 | Do you suppose I run a rooming house , or can it be you are not so innocent as you appear ? |
| 27 | This little old lady is not so innocent as she seems . |
| 28 | You 'll find her not so well-tempered as she might seem ! ’ |
| 29 | This was not so heartless as it might seem . |
| 30 | Yet his views and Kennedy 's were not so dissimilar as they seemed . |