Example sentences of "not [be] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 2 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 3 | The British Government have lagged in their support for events in Europe and have not been so enthusiastic as our European partners . |
| 4 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 5 | Product names therefore should not be so specific as to exclude wider use where appropriate . |
| 6 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 7 | Morrissey should not be so arrogant as to think that he can , expecting no recrimination or criticism , use racist imagery without anything but the most ambiguous of reasons . |
| 8 | The scale of the problem may not be so great as to cause widespread concern for the rural child , however . |
| 9 | The clear danger was , however , that certain factions within the party leadership would not be so tolerant as Su Xiao Kang hoped and that the freer intellectual atmosphere of 1988 might be drawing to an end . |
| 10 | The view that many people have , of ‘ I have n't got anything and anyway it all goes to my wife ’ , can often lead to legal difficulties and may not be so straightforward as is supposed . |
| 11 | Through these arguments one arrives at the position that the use of ROI need not be so harmful as academic accountants ( including me in the early 1970s ! ) and more recently academics from other fields have argued it to be . |
| 12 | In a smaller stadium they will not be so passionate as they were when they beat the Americans in the final . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ My lord and all my lords here present , I will not be so suspicious as to mistrust your truths , ’ she said , her voice charged with emotion . |
| 14 | Assuming the tribunal would not be so careless as to make such an oversight , it is submitted that if it did consider that the words ’ conduct of the employee ‘ in Sec 24 of the Industrial Relations Act , 1971 ( now Schedule 1 Para 6 ( 2 ) of the 1974 Trade Union and Labour Relations Act ) were impliedly qualified by something like ‘ in the course of his employment ’ , it was quite wrong . |
| 15 | My last migraine of any consequence was over four months ago , but I would not be so brash as to say that I have been cured . |
| 16 | In fact it may not be so different as may at first be thought . |
| 17 | It reminds us of the adaptability of old people about which earlier comment has been made and suggests that the rigid divisions between the sexes in tending roles , although still powerful , may not be so impermeable as they sometimes appear . |
| 18 | But if Greek literacy is not , in fact , as easy or as unambiguous as Goody sometimes claims , then its ‘ implications ’ may not be so important as those claims assert . |
| 19 | She wished she could lay claim to a migraine but knew that Betty would not let her , that anyway even she could not be so mannerless as to absent herself from her own picnic , and that even if she did have a blinding migraine she would still have to go . |
| 20 | Yet for many years gerontologists , in the many disciplines that make up gerontology , have been arguing that the gloom is overstressed , that future prospects need not be so bad as is often suggested . |
| 21 | We would not be so brave as to suggest that ‘ anyone ’ can build their own computer . |
| 22 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 23 | I would n't be so stupid as to pretend to have any idea what Claudia was going through during the hours leading up to the birth . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , a new home should n't be so small as to rule out the possibilities of shared living again one day . |
| 25 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 26 | ‘ Please , ’ Eva begged , ‘ do n't be so rude as to not let your father finish what he 's started . ’ |
| 27 | Surely Lorton would n't be so foolish as to kill Newley ? |
| 28 | I tried to persuade him that things could n't be so bad as the French paper made out or he would have been wired for . |