Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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1 | I guess he figured the malais would be less alert in the torpor of the mid-afternoon , while darkness was still not so far away that it could n't cloak his escape . |
2 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
3 | They were great fiddlers of long ago it 's not so long ago that I mind there was five fiddlers in our kitchen in Dalvaine , just each coming with a just to have a night at the fiddle . |
4 | ‘ Did n't I tell you not so long ago that there was only one area of my life I could countenance sharing with you — and that purely out of necessity ? ’ |
5 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
6 | Well I heard not so long ago that they were going to either pull it down or |
7 | It 's not so long ago that Kilmarnock were talking about wanting to go up as champions and look at them now . |
8 | He looked tired , in the bruised way that people who are physically slight do look tired , but not so much so that any of the congregation would notice . |
9 | But not so much so that we 'd junk a permanent commitment to a man in order to keep on our job . |
10 | for a whole , W , to exist it is not normally enough merely that its parts exist , rather it is required that they exist in a certain arrangement , in a certain set of relations to each other . |
11 | But Rick Christie , a golf professional in Tampa , Florida , and a friend of Levi 's , said not too long ago that he should win half a dozen tournaments with his consistent swing . |
12 | She needed a little experience here in the provinces first , of course , just enough to give her finesse and confidence , not too much so that she became jaded , and then … |
13 | If I recall rightly I think that it 's not that long ago that the licence was transferred to the present holder . |
14 | It 's not that long ago that Scots worked through Christmas , including Christmas day . |
15 | It is n't so long ago that the advocates of population control were being attacked not from the right but from the left . |
16 | After all , it was n't that long ago that it was quite acceptable to belch smoke over the countryside . |
17 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |