Example sentences of "not so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so tall and powerfully built that she felt as though she might break if he so much as touched her . |
| 2 | And here we 've got a couple that happen to be olive trees , and I , I 'm not so sure that just the fact that they 're olive trees really is that important . |
| 3 | Overleaf Not so famous but also spectacular : Bryce Canyon in Utah . |
| 4 | Not so much that here on a fine June morning a man lay murdered , but that he , Wexford , had found him . |
| 5 | There is not so much as even a prima facie case for imagining that the ad hoc domestic forces available for the Latin music and the English devotional settings bore any close resemblance to the stereotyped and institutionalized vocal dispositions ( SAATB , succeeding SATB and SATTB ) supplied by the contemporary church choir ; these several bodies of music need to be addressed separately . |
| 6 | Probably not so much as previously . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish my sight were not so powerful and so cunning … . |
| 8 | My next trip was not so pleasant but nonetheless enlightening , It was with a scratch crew and an experienced navigator who , like myself , had returned to ops after a period in the training world , but also ( like myself ) utterly clueless about present day operations . |
| 9 | My conclusion of the strength of her faith is that her convictions are in fact not so deep-seated or so fundamental as to constitute an immutable decision by her as to her way of life — or her way of death . |
| 10 | While I am happy that our efforts to keep more heavy traffic off the roads should achieve front page prominence , I am not so keen that so much journalistic ‘ topspin ’ should have been applied in the process . |
| 11 | Taller , stronger , not so blonde but much more decisive than their mother , she still seemed perpetually astonished by life . |
| 12 | Of course the visual indicators are useful but not so personal or so reassuring ( or so charming ) , and you can not talk to them about delays and ‘ Are there free sandwiches and coffee ? ’ |
| 13 | In those days , children were not so sheltered as now from the pressures of adult life , and the exploitation of child prodigies for material gain was not frowned upon . |
| 14 | In case ( c ) the law is not so clear and frequently other factors are present out of which a consideration for the promise can be manufactured . |
| 15 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 16 | The effector processes become slower and less powerful but these effects are not so marked or so consistent . |
| 17 | It is worth mentioning that the final is not so theoretical as perhaps believed : 40 per cent of the marks are allocated in the practical paper . |
| 18 | Pupil leakage is n't about those puddles occasionally found under infant children it 's about losing children to neighbours — it 's not so wet but equally unpleasant . |
| 19 | The ‘ implications ’ of literacy are not so obvious nor so easily elicited or described as Goody suggests . |
| 20 | Leith was getting out of her short , not so sleek and well past its sell-by date Mini , when she suddenly remembered that Massingham 's top brass were moving in that day . |
| 21 | No doubt his model was better , and the Niobid Painter 's Peirithous is not so bad though still not a great success . |
| 22 | Barbs is n't so old or so smelly , but she reminds me of him . ’ |