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 . |