Example sentences of "not quite so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty . |
| 2 | Although much of the mapping is relatively straightforward to automate because it is rule based , there are exceptions and therefore the mapping in a real database application is not quite so straightforward as implied here . |
| 3 | Daryl tried to imitate all they did , she was good to , but not quite so good as they were , but she was quite fearless and divide of the highest diving board and went down a chute in all kinds of peculiar position . |
| 4 | There is also the problem of breaking with tradition ; the House of Lords is accustomed to having the assistance of judgments from the Court of Appeal following full and careful consideration of detailed argument on the points of principle involved in an atmosphere which , though busy , is not quite so frenetic as that of the High Court . |
| 5 | The approach to management is not quite so lackadaisical as it once was , but there is still a long way to go , particularly in employment policies within the companies . |
| 6 | ‘ But clever though the cruel invaders were , they were not quite so clever as they believed . |
| 7 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 8 | Miss Potts left and Mademoiselle arrived , not quite so beaming as usual because of the heat . |
| 9 | He corrected an error in Riemann 's work and showed by an ingenious example that the scope of the new theory was not quite so great as some had claimed . |
| 10 | But in the period covered by this book society was not quite so hierarchical as before or after ; nor did a man 's place in the sun depend on the number and dignity of his ancestors . |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia is better off than the other East European nations and has committed 2 per cent of its investment to environmental projects , but there once again are to be found the same dreary environmental statistics of rivers poisoned , sewage untreated , sulphur dioxide deposited and trees dying , even if the figures are not quite so bad as elsewhere . |
| 12 | Morse walked over to the water 's edge , the river-level high against the banks , and there he dipped his fingers in : not quite so cold as he would have thought . |
| 13 | By night the bars can get quite lively , although not quite so wild as they get during the winter months when the skiers reenact their greatest runs . |
| 14 | Besides , it is not quite so urgent as I thought . |
| 15 | It is different from hers , but not quite so different as some suggest . |
| 16 | Several other offences are included in the above regulations but are not quite so common as the offence outlined . |
| 17 | In the event , Britain experienced a fairly modest depression between the years 1929–32 , not quite so severe as 1921 , but more prolonged . |
| 18 | As a team with which to go goat-hunting it was not quite so exiguous as he implied . |
| 19 | Norwich is not quite so compact as erm Canterbury thought is it ? for people who ca n't walk . |
| 20 | However , the situation is not quite so clear as it initially appears to be : in some earlier studies poly 3-deazaadenylic acid was shown to form unusually stable 1:1 and 1:2 duplexes with poly U ( 13 ) . |
| 21 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 22 | Er , you may be glad to know , or unhappy to know , that I 'm actually still on contact with the health service because I 'm a non-executive director of the Royal London Trust , which works of course , in Whitechapel , one of the poorer areas of London , and it 's not quite so glamorous as Guys , but actually it 's doing quite a good job . |
| 23 | Getting into the Bristol Cancer Help Centre as a resident patient was n't quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 24 | Well , erm , I know the forecast is n't quite so brilliant as it has been , I think but |
| 25 | Nowadays theologians are n't quite so straightforward as Paley . |
| 26 | They were n't quite so stupid as to believe wholly their own propaganda . |
| 27 | In terms of literature , however , it was n't quite so voluminous as , say , Home Purchaser — but the very nature of the Bond meant that all of the product details could n't be confirmed until just before the launch . |