Example sentences of "be not so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching on TV and taking part are not so much mutually exclusive as part of a balanced human cycle of passive and active involvement . |
| 2 | In contrast , the proposals for indicative drug budgets are not so much wrongly conceived as incomplete . |
| 3 | ‘ We believed the rumour on Tuesday that British Aerospace was building up a big shareholding but we are not so sure now , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 4 | The flowers are not so profuse then , and the leaves tend to cover them , but it 's still an extra treat . ’ |
| 5 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
| 6 | Ant species that are not so aggressive avidly remove insect eggs from foliage and generally ‘ spring-clean ’ the host . |
| 7 | And when you 're not so young either it 's , makes it er more awkward still , although she 's , she 's erm , she 's fairly well int she ? |
| 8 | Oh well you 're not so bad then are you ? |
| 9 | But I 'm not so sure now if it 's possible . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm not so sure now . |
| 11 | At the time I did n't think he suspected , I 'm not so sure now . |
| 12 | ‘ I did want to talk about it but I 'm not so sure now . |
| 13 | I thought I could make it on my own here , but I 'm not so certain now . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not so desperate now . |
| 15 | I 'm not so bad now . |
| 16 | Nights when ops were on were not so hectic now that the boys did not have the long runs to Berlin and Nuremburg , just specific targets in France and western Germany . |
| 17 | He smiled sadly , but his eyes were not so empty now . |
| 18 | It is not so curious then that blacks have manifested a predilection for sport and have achieved high orders of success in their chosen disciplines . |
| 19 | ‘ Then we will take the boy 's speech and writing which is so good and subject it to careful analysis and if we teach the other boys whose writing and speech is not so good how to subject what they say and write to this kind of analysis they will realise how badly they speak and write and will promptly set about trying to improve the way they speak and write … . ’ |
| 20 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
| 21 | Her disadvantages are : I. That she has less technical skill than a man and is not so useful all round . |
| 22 | The section on the chemistry of gasication is not so definitive partly because the temperature gradient , which varies according to fuel and gasifier design , affects both the position of chemical equilibria and the relative rates of different reactions within the gasifier but also because few experimental results are available for interpretation . |
| 23 | ‘ This is not so old today . |
| 24 | Here is an example , from one of our front-room tapes , in which someone is answering a question about why football is not so popular nowadays . |
| 25 | It 's er it 's not so necessary probably er as where at times I 've given talks in various parts of the country on on this area . |
| 26 | It 's not so expensive actually , we like . |
| 27 | The second goal disappointed me because we 'd talked about Lineker getting behind us , let Gary Lineker have the ball in front and then he 's not so dangerous obviously ; that 's his strength , over the top , bump it in the net . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's not so nasty really , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Down the bottom there in , number page twenty six it speaks about another modest man who became a role model for me who 's name 's John now a member of the governing body of Jehovah Witnesses and he 's been quoted over the years as saying it 's not so much where you serve , but who you serve that is truly important , can you see that ? |
| 30 | But it 's not so much nowadays though . |