Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
| 2 | This may not fall quite so easily into the category of a communications medium as you see it , but its relevance will be glaringly obvious later . |
| 3 | Wayne Larkins did not begin quite so strikingly but was an undeniably happy man . |
| 4 | A rival cheetah that does n't have such big leg muscles may not run quite so fast , but it has resources to spare for making an extra lot of milk and therefore perhaps rearing another cub . |
| 5 | These are ‘ low ’ standards compared to those of many other housewives in the sample , and the routine is there , but it is not anchored nearly so securely to set times of the day as Barbara Lipscombe 's . |
| 6 | A tail-wheel with a rubber tyre will resist skidding sideways over tarmac , but it will not grip quite so well when it is bouncing over rough grass . |
| 7 | In total contrast , hard rails release water more cleanly and consequently will tend to plane earlier at the expense of not gripping quite so well in the turns . |
| 8 | Since culture did not hammer quite so hard on Mrs Frizzell 's door , she had more time to plan parties . |
| 9 | You can say : " I would like to open up this discussion and involve members of the meeting who have not spoken much so far . " |
| 10 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 11 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 12 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 13 | They would not get away so lightly today . |
| 14 | Chung gains too from the fact that she is not balanced quite so closely as Perlman . |
| 15 | During a recession , the public can not be blamed for watching pennies in the hope that pounds wo n't disappear quite so quickly , but most Britons eat to live rather than living to eat , no matter how the economy is doing . |
| 16 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 17 | I have n't felt ill so far . |
| 18 | Er not very long because he er he started a business and er and he did n't do ever so well cos times were bad in the twenties you know as you know . |
| 19 | We did n't do quite so well , but we really hit it off . |
| 20 | It 's funny , I do n't feel nearly so badly towards you . |
| 21 | I did think I might read them some day , when I could bear to and it did n't feel quite so much like prying . ’ |
| 22 | However , after the birth of her second child returning to work did n't work quite so well . |
| 23 | It 's ideal for birds with the high frequency voice , but for people they the speech is a bit lower in frequency and does n't work quite so well . |
| 24 | The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't look quite so much like myself any more , ’ one of my closest friends told me about her decision to colour her grey . |
| 26 | He wished his voice did n't sound quite so childishly defensive in his own ears , but Dalziel seemed happy enough with his explanation . |
| 27 | They do n't fare quite so well in their efforts to ‘ rock out ’ . |
| 28 | Well usually usually not always but just about always he 's at home he has n't gone anywhere so how far away is he zero as well so you get zero zero goes through the origin . |
| 29 | ‘ Cover yourself , boy , do n't stand there so wretchedly . |
| 30 | Then if you want blue to go the other side of the hoop and black to go here say , to the black wo n't go quite so far and the blue will . |