Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 And because they were not so well known the audiences were always enchanted and wondered why they had never heard them before .
2 She made it sound very simple , as young people do ; and she had n't yet considered the implications for herself , Mr Stanforth reflected cynically , or she would not so blithely dismiss the matter of the inheritance .
3 They will not so easily recognise the lives that you have saved .
4 Disorder in the Chamber or the galleries — or even the blazoning of slogans — has not so far created the problems that some had feared .
5 The allegations of corruption , too , have not so far touched the other three services , which have kept quietly clear of the row between the army and the government .
6 Note that we have not so far specified the wire thickness of either ring .
7 The Commission has not so far brought the matter to the European Court of Justice .
8 We have not so far introduced the length of each step into our expressions .
9 efforts to introduce literacy have not so far examined the question as to when it is right for particular students to begin reading and writing
10 In all cases not so far defined the pixel was left at its previous value .
11 Though they have not so far emulated the economic success of other Asians , they share many of their qualities .
12 Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact .
13 THE LAST 10 days or so have not so much shaken the world as utterly changed it .
14 Labour has not so much won the battle of ideas as deserted the field .
15 Pressures for a particular settlement in the Church , in other words , emerged from within society before the establishment of the new regime ; the eventual religious settlement worked out did not so much create the religious problem but rather was an attempt to deal with a religious problem that already existed , although in doing so the government inevitably created new religious tensions in the process .
16 The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories .
17 Now , for pride , she would not crop it , she would not so much mark the occasion , but instead wore it always inside some sort of covering , hidden away .
18 The exception is , of course , in the pronouncement that shareholders have in effect surrendered their power to professional management , a pronouncement which does not so much face the central question of the rights of ownership as to try to pass it by .
19 In this case , although people were selective about which bits of the past they emphasized ( concentrating on state-renouncing ) , they did not so much reinterpret the past in the light of their present preoccupations ; rather , they polished an idealized account of rights , with their ancestors as heroes of duty .
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