Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [det] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My main concern is , that I think that over the years , as people have lived longer and as they became retired , we 've tended to neglect them , not so much financially and in terms of their conditions , though I think there 's always arguments about that ; I think we 've actually neglected their role in the community . |
| 2 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
| 3 | Mr Sims , if that was his real name , dressed not so much snappily as very cleanly . |
| 4 | Socially mobile within the middle class we were going not so much up but sideways , heading towards sub-cultures , which as yet did not exist , and which we could envisage only hazily . |
| 5 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 6 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
| 7 | Not so much now because of ill health but she used to . |
| 8 | Not so much now because it 's mainly the youngsters that go there . |
| 9 | Erm the only problem is well , even s even , not so much now because because the er a bit better . |
| 10 | Dada accepted all the changes at Deer Forest , not so much apathetically as with genuine indifference . |
| 11 | Not er not so many now but it 's er we 've still got members but I mean we well we 're you know all about that you 're the front |
| 12 | The breakfast dishes were n't even washed , though I have n't so many now as two daughters are away . |